ZUL-A Light-Weight Architecture for Zigbee-based Ubiquitous Applications

摘要：

The IEEE 802.15.4 and the Zigbee wireless protocol are increasingly being used in ubiquitous applications ranging from smart homes to novel learning applications. A common architecture for such applications has emerged. This paper describes a light-weight software architecture for building such applications. The ZUL (Zigbee-Based Ubiquitous Layer) architecture defines two virtual machines; one for the host called ZUL-H and one for the Zigbee nodes called ZUL-E. A reference implementation for the ZULH has been developed using the. NET framework while ZUL-E has been implemented using C language for two different types of Zigbee hardware platforms. A case study that re-implements the Prete-a-apprcndre+ wearable ubiquitous learning toolkit using ZUL shows that using ZUL makes the design cleaner and easier to maintain.

关键词： component Zibee IEEE 802.15.4 Ubiquitous Computing Wearable Learning

作者: Imran A. Zualkernan

作者单位: Computer Science and Engineering American University of Sharjah Sharjah, UAE

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2011 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Research and Development(ICCRD 2011)(2011第三届计算机研究与发展国际会议)

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 10-14

在线出版日期: 2011-03-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）