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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Programming Disconnected Operations in Wireless Sensor Networks

Olsson, Christopher January 2009 (has links)
Wireless sensor networks, networks of nodes communicating wirelessly with sensing capabilities, are becoming more popular and are utilized by an increasing number of applications. Some wireless sensor networks are implemented because the usual network solutions of an always connected network could not be applied. Specifically this thesis is concerned with the case when the connection between the end-user and the network is not always available, i.e., there is only intermittent connectivity. This masters thesis gives an introduction and provides some background knowledge concerning wireless sensor networks, specifically focusing on disconnected operation. A set of building blocks will be presented to help programmers deal with programming disconnected operations. Examples to demonstrate our solution is implemented as shell commands using the Contiki operating system. Our solution was tested in the field and compared against a common, monolithic, programming approach. This practical example shows the potential significance of this thesis project in real world applications and allowed an evaluation of both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of our solution. The results of our evaluation prove that our solution offers an easier interface for the programmer to work with at the cost of possible less memory space. / Trådlösa sensornätverk, nätverk med noder som kommunicerar trådlöst och har sensorer, blir mer populära och används av i ett ökande antal applikationer. Några trådlösa sensornätverk används för att en vanlig nätverkslösning med ständigt uppkopplade noder inte går att genomföra. Det här examensjobbet är specifikt inriktat på fall när en uppkoppling mellan slutanvändaren och nätverket inte alltid är tillgängligt, t.ex. när det bara är tillfällig uppkoppling. Detta examensarbete ger en introduktion och bakgrund till trådlösa sensornätverk med fokus på programmering av frånkopplade operationer. Ett antal byggstenar har tagits fram för att hjälpa programmerare att programmera frånkopplade operationer. Exempel för att styrka vår lösning i vår rapport kommer att implementeras som shellkommandon i operativsystemet Contiki. Vår lösning kommer att testas i verkligheten och jämföras med ett vanligt, monolitisk, programmeringsangreppssätt. Detta praktiska exempel kommer visa den potentiella nyttan av detta examensarbete i verkliga applikationer och tillåta utvärdering av kvalitativa och kvantitativa aspekter på vår lösning. Resultaten från vår utvärdering bevisar att vår lösning erbjuder ett enkelt gränssnitt för programmeraren att arbeta med till en kostnad av möjligen mindre minnesplats.
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Performance Analysis of Algorithms for Supporting Disconnected Write Operations in Wireless Web Environments

Phan, Ngoc Anh 11 October 1999 (has links)
A mobile user may voluntarily disconnect itself from the web server to save battery life and also to avoid the high communication price. To allow web pages to be updated while the mobile user is disconnected from the web server, updates can be staged in the mobile unit and propagated back to the web server upon reconnection. In this thesis, we investigate methods for supporting disconnected write operations and develop a performance model which helps identify the optimal length of the disconnection period under which the cost of update propagation is minimized. We validate the analytic model with simulation in the thesis. We also show how the result can be applied to real-time web applications with a deadline requirement to propagate updates of web pages. The analysis result is particularly applicable to web applications which allow wireless mobile users to modify web contents while on the go. The algorithms that we have developed can be generally applied to other data items such as files and databases. / Master of Science

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