Design and implementation of a mobile actor platform for wireless sensor networks

摘要: Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) promise the ability to monitor physical environments and facilitate control of cyber-physical systems. Because sensors can generate large amounts data, wireless bandwidth is both limited energy hungry, local processing becomes necessary minimize communication. However, for reasons efficiency production costs, embedded nodes have relatively slow processors small memories. This makes programming harder requires new tools distributed computing. We developed ActorNet, an implementation Actor model computing which facilitates by treating a network as open platform. ActorNet provides high-level actor language: users write dynamic applications single cross-platform runtime environment with support heterogeneous physically separated WSNs. shields application developers from some hardware-specific concerns. Moreover, unlike other systems WSNs, supports agent mobility automatic garbage collection. describe language system how it achieves reasonable performance in WSN.