A virtual machine generator for heterogeneous smart spaces

  • Authors:
  • Doug Palmer

  • Affiliations:
  • CSIRO ICT Centre

  • Venue:
  • VM'04 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Virtual Machine Research And Technology Symposium - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Heterogenous smart spaces are networks of communicating, embedded resources and general-purpose computers that have a wide spread of power and capabilities. Devices can range from having less than a kilobyte of RAM to many megabytes. Virtual machine techniques can be used to control some of the inherent complexity of a heterogeneous smart space by providing a common runtime environment. However, a suitably rich, single virtual machine implementation is unlikely to be able to operate in all environments. By using a virtual machine generator and allowing virtual machines to be subsetted, it is possible to provide numerous virtual machines, each tailored to the capabilities of a class of resources.