Programming iMote Networks Made Easy

In this paper, we report on our experiment with the deployment of a virtual machine, Netquest, which evaluates protocols written in a declarative language, over iMote devices. Netquest offers a new programming model for sensor networks with a high level of abstraction. Protocols and applications can be written in a simple rule-based language, which allows concise and application centric programming. The Netquest Virtual Machine is implemented on top of an embedded DBMS, SQLite, which carries on most of the computation. Our experiments over a small network of iMote devices demonstrate (i) that high-level programming abstraction can be provided on such devices, and (ii) that declarative applications for sensor networks can be developed easily.