A file system abstraction for sense and respond systems

Authors:
Sameer Tilak;Bhanu Pisupati;Kenneth Chiu;Geoffrey Brown;Nael Abu-Ghazaleh
Affiliations:
State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton;Indiana University;State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton;Indiana University;State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton
Venue:
EESR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on End-to-end, sense-and-respond systems, applications and services
Year:
2005

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Abstract

The heterogeneity and resource constraints of sense-and-respond systems significantly challenge system and application development. In this paper, we present a flexible, intuitive file system abstraction for organizing and managing sense-and-respond systems based on the Plan 9 design principles. A key feature is the support of multiple views of the system via filesystem namespaces. Constructed logical views present an application-specific representation of the network, thus enabling high-level programming. Concurrently, structural views of the network enable resource-efficient planning and execution of tasks. We present and motivate the design using several examples, outline research challenges and our plan to address them, and describe the current implementation state.