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Software design patterns for TinyOS

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ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Volume 6, Issue 4

Pages 22 - es

https://doi.org/10.1145/1274858.1274860

Published: 01 September 2007 Publication History

Abstract

We present design patterns used by software components in the TinyOS sensor network operating system. They differ significantly from traditional software design patterns because of the constraints of sensor networks and to TinyOS's focus on static allocation and whole-program composition. We describe how nesC has evolved to support these design patterns by including a few simple language primitives and optimizations.

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Index Terms

Software design patterns for TinyOS
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Patterns
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Client-server architectures
      2. Software architectures

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cover image ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems Volume 6, Issue 4

Special Section LCTES'05

September 2007

352 pages

ISSN:1539-9087

EISSN:1558-3465

DOI:10.1145/1274858

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