International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems · 2007 · 27 citations · 5 references
EngineeringComputer EngineeringSystems EngineeringSystems ArchitectureSystems DesignSystems ModelingModel ReuseModel TransformationModel-driven DevelopmentModel-driven Software EngineeringSensor NetworksWireless Sensor NetworksAbstractionAbstraction LevelsModel AbstractionModel RefinementModel-driven EngineeringPlatform-specific ModelsSoftware Development Life CycleSoftware Development Methodology
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are a very promising research field since they are applicable in many different areas. Current proposals for WSN system development are mainly focused on implementation issues and rarely use a Software Engineering methodology to support their development life cycle. The Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) approach can be used as a solution to this by allowing designers to model their systems at different abstraction levels, providing them with automatic model transformations to incrementally refine abstract models into more concrete ones. In this vein, this paper presents an MDE approach to WSN application development. Three levels of abstraction have been defined which allow designers to build: (1) domain-specific models, (2) component-based architecture descriptions, and (3) platform-specific models. Automatic model transformations between these three abstraction levels have been designed and, in order to demonstrate the viability of the proposal, a real WSN application has been developed using the implemented tools.
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