A Service Backplane for E-Textile Applications (2002)

Abstract

E-textile technology is rapidly progressing, allowing for the development of truly wearable computers as well as very large-scale computing textiles. Efficient development of applications on etextiles will require significant software services support. This paper analyzes two representative e-textile applications for their software service requirements. Based on this analysis, three services particularly affected by the e-textile design space---fault tolerance, physical configuration, and processing element selection--are described in detail. Each service is considered at the application level, implementation level, and the hardware support level.