TY - CONF

T1 - Programming the Ubiquitous Network: A Top-Down Approach

AU - Bischoff, Urs

AU - Kortuem, Gerd

PY - 2006/9

Y1 - 2006/9

N2 - A ubiquitous network is characterised by a large number of small computers embedded in our environment. Writing distributed applications for this kind of network can be a challenging task. Programming and re-programming each single device is not feasible; it is too time consuming, too costly and too error prone. We argue that a top-down approach to writing applications is useful. We propose a highlevel language that can specify a ubiquitous network’s global behaviour. A compiler can automatically generate device-level executables from this global specification.

AB - A ubiquitous network is characterised by a large number of small computers embedded in our environment. Writing distributed applications for this kind of network can be a challenging task. Programming and re-programming each single device is not feasible; it is too time consuming, too costly and too error prone. We argue that a top-down approach to writing applications is useful. We propose a highlevel language that can specify a ubiquitous network’s global behaviour. A compiler can automatically generate device-level executables from this global specification.

KW - cs_eprint_id

KW - 1582 cs_uid

KW - 382

M3 - Conference paper

T2 - Proceedings of the Workshop on System Support for Ubiquitous Computing, at the 8th Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2006)

Y2 - 17 September 2006 through 21 September 2006

ER -