Glossary of terms

Below there is a list of the main concepts and equivalences with terms of other works. To deepen in them, it is necessary to resort to related works in this field.

• Module is a part of the application that it can be deployed in a computational or any other type of device.
• Entity, is the abstraction of any type of device
• Link a network connection between two entities
• Pure Source is a special type of node who only generates messages (i.e. sensor devices)
• Pure Sink is a special type of node who only receives messages (i.e. actuator devices)
• Placement, this module controls the allocation of application module
• Message is the representation of a network package that it enables the action of a application module.