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Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks are an important application domain of ubiquitous computing and Wireless Sensor Networks are a key technology for enabling such applications. The development of ubiquitous applications poses challenges as dealing with the low-level programming abstractions and the heterogeneity of hardware and software. Middleware facilitates application development by hiding the heterogeneity and complexity of the underlying hardware and software. We argue that a single middleware is not able to meet the heterogeneity of ubiquitous systems, and propose a Software Product Line approach to design a middleware family. The family is customized according to constraints imposed by three viewpoints: device, network and application. We customize the family considering the variability of the VANETs domain.
This work has been supported by Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación Project TIN2008-01942, the European Commission STREP Project AMPLE IST-033710, and by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
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Delicato, F.C., Fuentes, L., Gámez, N., Pires, P.F. (2009). A Middleware Family for VANETs. In: Ruiz, P.M., Garcia-Luna-Aceves, J.J. (eds) Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks. ADHOC-NOW 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5793. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04383-3_31
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