Citation
Manish Kushwaha, Isaac Amundson, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Sandeep Neema, Janos Sztipanovits. "OASiS: A Programming Framework for Service-Oriented Sensor Networks". In IEEE/Create-Net COMSWARE 2007, 2007.

Abstract
Wireless sensor networks consist of small, inexpensive devices which interact with the environment, communicate with each other, and perform distributed computations in order to monitor spatio-temporal phenomena. These devices are ideally suited for a variety of applications including object tracking, environmental monitoring, and homeland security. At present, sensor network technologies do not provide off-the-shelf solutions to users who lack low-level network programming experience. Because of limited resources, ad hoc deployments, and volatile wireless communication links, the development of distributed applications require the combination of both application and system-level logic. Programming frameworks and middleware for traditional distributed computing are not suitable for many of these problems due to the resource constraints and interactions with the physical world. To address these challenges we have developed OASiS1, a programming framework which provides abstractions for object-centric, ambient-aware, service-oriented sensor network applications. OASiS uses a well-defined model of computation based on globally asynchronous locally synchronous dataflow, and is complemented by a user-friendly modeling environment. Applications are realized as graphs of modular services and executed in response to the detection of physical phenomena. We have also implemented a suite of middleware services that support OASiS to provide a layer of abstraction shielding the low-level system complexities. A tracking application is used to illustrate the features of OASiS. Our results demonstrate the feasibility and the benefits of a service-oriented programming framework for composing and deploying applications in resource constrained sensor networks

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  Manish Kushwaha, Isaac Amundson, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Sandeep
  Neema, Janos Sztipanovits. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/296.html"
  >OASiS: A Programming Framework for Service-Oriented
  Sensor Networks</a>, In IEEE/Create-Net COMSWARE 2007,
  2007.

• Plain text

  Manish Kushwaha, Isaac Amundson, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Sandeep
  Neema, Janos Sztipanovits. "OASiS: A Programming
  Framework for Service-Oriented Sensor Networks". In
  IEEE/Create-Net COMSWARE 2007, 2007.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{KushwahaAmundsonKoutsoukosNeemaSztipanovits07_OASiSProgrammingFrameworkForServiceOrientedSensorNetworks,
      author = {Manish Kushwaha and Isaac Amundson and Xenofon
                Koutsoukos and Sandeep Neema and Janos Sztipanovits},
      title = {OASiS: A Programming Framework for
                Service-Oriented Sensor Networks},
      booktitle = {In IEEE/Create-Net COMSWARE 2007},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {Wireless sensor networks consist of small,
                inexpensive devices which interact with the
                environment, communicate with each other, and
                perform distributed computations in order to
                monitor spatio-temporal phenomena. These devices
                are ideally suited for a variety of applications
                including object tracking, environmental
                monitoring, and homeland security. At present,
                sensor network technologies do not provide
                off-the-shelf solutions to users who lack
                low-level network programming experience. Because
                of limited resources, ad hoc deployments, and
                volatile wireless communication links, the
                development of distributed applications require
                the combination of both application and
                system-level logic. Programming frameworks and
                middleware for traditional distributed computing
                are not suitable for many of these problems due to
                the resource constraints and interactions with the
                physical world. To address these challenges we
                have developed OASiS1, a programming framework
                which provides abstractions for object-centric,
                ambient-aware, service-oriented sensor network
                applications. OASiS uses a well-defined model of
                computation based on globally asynchronous locally
                synchronous dataflow, and is complemented by a
                user-friendly modeling environment. Applications
                are realized as graphs of modular services and
                executed in response to the detection of physical
                phenomena. We have also implemented a suite of
                middleware services that support OASiS to provide
                a layer of abstraction shielding the low-level
                system complexities. A tracking application is
                used to illustrate the features of OASiS. Our
                results demonstrate the feasibility and the
                benefits of a service-oriented programming
                framework for composing and deploying applications
                in resource constrained sensor networks},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/296.html}
  }
  

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