Towards Rapid Development of Configurable, Reliable, and Scalable Wireless Applications

This paper presents Aurora, a software toolkit that dramatically reduces the effort required to develop configurable, reliable, and scalable wireless applications. The toolkit consists of software libraries, code generation tools, and executable software components that provide initialization and fault tolerance support typically needed by these applications. Aurora has been used in several experimental wireless systems at Lucent Technologies. Empirical results show that it provides 35% to 75% of the software used in these systems, excluding operating system and third party class library software. These results indicate huge savings in reduced development effort, lowering development costs and shortening time to market, over systems that do not use Aurora.