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The design and implementation of wireless sensor network applications often require domain experts, who may lack expertise in software engineering, to produce resource-constrained, concurrent, real-time software without the support of high-level software engineering facilities. The Insense language aims to address this mismatch by allowing the complexities of synchronisation, memory management and event-driven programming to be borne by the language implementation rather than by the programmer. The main contribution of this paper is an initial step towards verifying the correctness of WSN applications with a focus on concurrency. We model part of the synchronisation mechanism of the Insense language implementation using Promela constructs and verify its correctness using Spin. We demonstrate how a previously published version of the mechanism is shown to be incorrect by Spin, and give complete verification results for the revised mechanism.
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Sharma, O. et al. (2009). Towards Verifying Correctness of Wireless Sensor Network Applications Using Insense and Spin. In: Păsăreanu, C.S. (eds) Model Checking Software. SPIN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5578. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02652-2_19
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