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WSN Design and Verification Using On-Board Executable Specifications
Giuseppe Lo ReGloria MartorellaDaniele PeriSalvatore Gagliosubject
Computer scienceInformation System02 engineering and technologywireless sensor networkSoftware0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringElectrical and Electronic EngineeringEmbedded systemsymbolic programmingSettore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniFunctional specificationbusiness.industry020208 electrical & electronic engineeringRuntime verificationresource-constrained deviceComputer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognitioncomputer.file_formatsystem specificationComputer Science ApplicationsControl and Systems EngineeringEmbedded systemsystem programmingExecutablebusinesscomputerInformation Systemsdescription
The gap between informal functional specifications and the resulting implementation in the chosen programming language is notably a source of errors in embedded systems design. In this paper, we discuss a methodology and a software platform aimed at coping with this issue in programming resource-constrained wireless sensor network nodes (WSNs). Whereas the typical development model for the WSNs is based on cross compilation, the proposed approach supports high-level symbolic coding of abstract models and distributed applications, as well as their test and their execution, directly on the target hardware. As a working example, we discuss the application of our methodology to specify the functional behavior of a radio transceiver chip. The resulting executable specifications are augmented with automatically generated runtime verification code. Our approach is also compared to code development for two prominent WSN general-purpose operating systems.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-01 | IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics |