...rk, on battery-lifetime, and on how participants in the network can be properly compensated for providing service to other participants. 2.3.5 Wireless Sensor Networks Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) =-=[3]-=- are made up of sensors equipped with a low-power radio transmitter to communicate their readings. Because of the low-power radio, communication is mostly from the sensors to a data collection point (...
...ted. The power consumption of the Mica2 platform has been studied extensively and numerous simulators exist to determine the power consumption of a particular protocol running on this platform (e.g., =-=[4]-=-). However, one should be careful to not simply reuse these results for newer platforms, as different hardware choices, especially with respect to the radio module in use, can significantly alter the ...
...ver, the syntax of the model definition has not yet been verified. Up to this point the compilation process is normal. Additional information about compiling in general can be found, for instance, in =-=[5]-=-. 5.2.3 Enhanced AST The AST is a representation of the program as a tree where each node in the tree stands for an element in the program. The connection between the nodes represents how the nodes ar...