TinyOS/nesC tip: ActiveMessage

Just a quick note for those who are looking on the web for the reason that their nesC code is not working: calling AMSend.setSource( *amsg,  addr) may change the source address locally, but when you are sending the packet it will be reset to ActiveMessageAddressC$addr. After almost two days of wondering why I couldn’t forge […]

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mininetstumbler on PDA device

I am using a set of iPaq devices for some of my experiments here in UTD Distributed Systems lab. One of the devices is running WindowsCE 2003, the rest are running Familiar Distribution Linux. The WinCE one is collecting data about available wireless networks using mini-Netstumbler. The data gathered is not precise, but at the […]

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Assisted Driving

It is very exciting to see real world applications of computer related technologies. It gives me hope that this field is actually doing work, as other fields of science do. One branch of such real world applications is “assisted driving. What I mean by assistance in here is providing information, such as current speed and […]

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Lam-MPI

While I was in ADA lab, we had all sort of problems with running lam-mpi across our nodes. Anyway, it was worth it and was quiet fun sometimes to work with it. You can find good tutorials here on their website, but even after reading these you may encounter some unexpected problems. How to solve […]

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