Publication

This position paper describes initial efforts and ideas for the development of a middleware framework to  support the operation of adaptive Wireless Sensor Networks applications with real-time and dependability  requirements. We identify a set of underlying services that need to be implemented as part of this  framework, explaining why they are needed and what they provide. In order to illustrate how this middleware  can be used and its potential benefits, we consider the well-known LQER routing protocol to show how it  must be changed to incorporate probabilistic real-time requirements and meet them in a dependable way.