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Adaptive self-configuring
systems

The sheer number of distributed elements in these systems precludes dependence on manual configuration. Furthermore, the environmental dynamics to which these elements must adapt prevents design-time pre-configuration of these systems. Thus, realistic deployments of these unattended networks must self-reconfigure in response to node failure or incremental addition of nodes, and must adapt to changing environmental conditions. If we are to exploit the power of densely distributed sensing, these techniques for adaptation and self-configuration must scale to the anticipated sizes of these deployments. In recent years, some work has begun to allow networks of wireless nodes to discover their neighbors, acquire synchronism, and form efficient routes [Pottie-Kaiser00]. However, this nascent research has not yet addressed many fundamental issues in adaptively self-configuring the more complex sensing and actuation systems described here, particularly those arising from deploying embedded systems in real-world, environmentally-challenging contexts [Estrin-et.al.99]

Driven by our experimental domains, we are using this experimental platform to develop techniques for self-configuration:


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