Summary: Spring 2006 CS 649 1
CS649
Sensor Networks
Lecture 6: OS and Language Support
Andreas Terzis
http://hinrg.cs.jhu.edu/wsn05/
Outline
Spring 2006 CS 649 2
· Operating Systems for Sensor Nodes
· TinyOS
· Language support for Sensor Nodes
· nesC
Characteristics of Network Sensors
Spring 2006 CS 649 3
Concurrency-intensive operation
· Multiple flows, not wait-command-respond
· Limited Physical Parallelism and Controller Hierarchy
· Primitive direct-to-device interface
· Asynchronous and synchronous devices
· Diversity in Design and Usage

Source: Amir, Yair - Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences