Compiling functional reactive macroprograms for sensor networks

Sensor networks present a number of novel programming challenges for application developers. Their inherent limitations of computational power, communication bandwidth, and energy demand new approaches to programming that shield the developer from low-level details of resource management, concurrency, and in-network processing. To answer this challenge, this thesis presents a functional macroprogramming language called Regiment. The essential data model in Regiment is based on regions, which represent spatially distributed, time-varying collections of state. The programmer uses regions to define and manipulate dynamic sets of sensor nodes. A first compiler for Regiment has been constructed, which implements the essential core of the language on the TinyOS platform. This thesis presents the compiler as well as an intermediate language developed to serve as a Regiment compilation target.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• Newton, Ryan Rhodes, 1980-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Arvind.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30167

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/30167