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Software Technologies in WSNs

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Problem Solving for Wireless Sensor Networks

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WSNs pose many challenges to the software applications that run on them. It is not only the scarcity of nodes’ resources, but also the particularities of the WSN applications that make software design and development in WSN an open research issue. This chapter reviews some of the most significant software-related aspects of WSNs that are currently the object of intensive research, namely middleware for WSNs, the applicability of agent technologies to WSNs, and design strategies for and the operation of WSN software. We also review WSN simulation platforms. Although they are not software to be run on top of a WSN, these platforms are a key element when devising new protocols or solutions for this technology, as they eliminate the need to deploy a real WSN network from the beginning.

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    Ana-Belén García-Hernando (Dr), José-Fernán Martínez-Ortega (Dr) & Juan-Manuel López-Navarro (Dr)

  2. ATHENA / I.S.I. Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communication, and Knowledge Technologies, Greece

    Aggeliki Prayati (Dr)

  3. Métodos y Tecnología de Sistemas y Procesos (MTP), Madrid, Spain

    Luis Redondo-López

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García-Hernando, AB., Martínez-Ortega, JF., López-Navarro, JM., Prayati, A., Redondo-López, L. (2008). Software Technologies in WSNs. In: García-Hernando , AB., Martínez-Ortega, JF., López-Navarro, JM., Prayati, A., Redondo-López, L. (eds) Problem Solving for Wireless Sensor Networks. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-203-6_4

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