Poster Abstract: Introducing Logical Neighborhoods for Programming Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks

To this end, we propose the notion of logical neighborhood as a way to logically partition a WSAN. Differently from physical neighborhoods, where a node’s physical transmissions range determines the set of devices it is able to communicate with, we here introduce an application-defined notion of neighborhood where the programmer specifies, using a declarative language we devised, the characteristics of the devices that a node wants to consider as its logical neighbors. Then, thanks to a communication primitive coupled to the above mentioned abstraction, a node is able to “broadcast” (in a logical sense) a message just to all members of the logical neighborhood.