TinyOS/TinyDB extension for monitoring the k-most 
important events in a wireless sensor network
Copyright (C) 2011  Panayiotis G. Andreou

DESCRIPTION
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KSpot+ is a novel network-aware architecture for wireless sensor 
networks built on top of a diverse set of energy-conscious 
algorithms. It inserts a profiling layer between the server and 
the sensor network that discovers structural and workload 
inefficiencies and exploits them in order to generate balanced 
topologies that can be queried in an energy-efficient manner. 
It has three basic operations:
1. to construct balanced network topologies,
2. to tune the waking windows of sensor nodes, and
3. to enable tuple ranking through top-k queries.
KSpot+'s modular design allows application designers to easily 
integrate new features into the design as well as experiment 
under different settings. KSpot+'s modules can function 
individually or in cooperation according to the requirements 
of the application.
KSpot+ components are implemented in JAVA (server-side) and in 
nesC (client-side). We have selected nesC (TinyOS/TinyDB) for 
the implementation of the client-side components for practical 
reasons as it already provides a kernel of declarative data 
acquisition functionalities (i.e., SQL query syntax).

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Panayiotis G. Andreou
panic@cs.ucy.ac.cy