An operating system abstraction layer for portable applications in wireless sensor networks

Oliver, Ramón Serna; Shcherbakov, Ivan; Fohler, Gerhard

doi:10.1145/1774088.1774243

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“…Some new solutions provide separation between the sensor OS and the user application tasks but we still need functions like OTA installation/updating of new user tasks without disturbing the existing ones. One possible solution to tackle this issue is to design an abstraction layer that works on top of sensor OS to provide application portability like in [83]. A modular-based approach will work much better since it will be applicable to heterogeneous OSs, programming languages and models.…”

Section: ) Advanced Node-level Virtualizationmentioning

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Wireless sensor network virtualization: A survey

Khan

Belqasmi

Glitho

et al. 2016

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Abstract-Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are the key components of the emerging Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm. They are now ubiquitous and used in a plurality of application domains. WSNs are still domain specific and usually deployed to support a specific application. However, as WSNs' nodes are becoming more and more powerful, it is getting more and more pertinent to research how multiple applications could share a very same WSN infrastructure. Virtualization is a technology that can potentially enable this sharing. This paper is a survey on WSN virtualization. It provides a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art and an in-depth discussion of the research issues. We introduce the basics of WSN virtualization and motivate its pertinence with carefully selected scenarios. Existing works are presented in detail and critically evaluated using a set of requirements derived from the scenarios. The pertinent research projects are also reviewed. Several research issues are also discussed with hints on how they could be tackled. perform computations and communicate [2]. The most obvious drawback of the current WSNs is that they are domain-specific and task-oriented, tailored for particular applications with little or no possibility of reusing them for newer applications. This strategy is inefficient and leads to redundant deployments when new applications are contemplated. With the introduction of the IoT, it is not unrealistic to envision that future WSN deployments will have to support multiple applications simultaneously. Index Terms-Virtualization is a well-established concept that allows the abstraction of actual physical computing resources into logical units, enabling their efficient usage by multiple independent users [3]. It is a promising technique that can allow the efficient utilization of WSN deployments, as multiple applications will be able to co-exist on the same virtualized WSN. Virtualization is a key technique for the realization of the Future Internet [4] and it is indeed quite pertinent to explore it in the context of WSNs.Virtualizing WSNs brings with it many benefits; for example, even applications that were not envisioned a priori may be able to utilize existing WSN deployments. A second, related benefit is the elimination of tight coupling between WSN services/applications and WSN deployments. This allows experienced as well as novice application developers to develop innovative WSN applications without needing to know the technical details of the WSNs involved. Another benefit is that WSN applications and services can utilize as well as be utilized by third-party applications. It can also help to define a business model, with roles such as physical WSN provider, virtual WSN provider and WSN service provider.The WSN virtualization concept can be applied to several interesting application areas. Recent advances in smart phones and autonomous vehicles [5] have made it possible to have multiple on-board sensors on them. Mobile crowd sensing is one area that can take advantage of virtuali...

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Section: ) Advanced Node-level Virtualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wireless sensor network virtualization: A survey

Khan

Belqasmi

Glitho

et al. 2016

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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129

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“…National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been researching on an abstraction layer that homogenizes different real‐time OS, such as vxWorks and RTEMS . Specifically in the WSN scope, to the best of our knowledge, only one abstraction layer has been proposed to abstract away the OSs Mantis and FreeRTOS . Note that the latest OS is not intended for sensor nodes, but it is a real‐time OS.…”

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“…Note that the latest OS is not intended for sensor nodes, but it is a real‐time OS. Table shows a comparison among the Operating System Abstraction Layer (OSAL) provided in and the SN‐OSAL proposed in this article.…”

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An open framework for translating portable applications into operating system‐specific wireless sensor networks applications

Escolar

Carretero

2012

Softw Pract Exp

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SUMMARY Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are distributed systems integrated by tiny devices, called sensor nodes, with capabilities to monitor the environment and forward their measurements to a special node, the sink, where the results can be collected and further processed. The trend in WSN is moving towards heterogeneous networks that will contain different sensor nodes running different instances of custom operating systems. Given the growing demand of new hardware platforms and operating systems specifically designed for sensor nodes, the applications programming for sensor nodes is becoming a challenging process that needs to be alleviated. Currently, application programming for sensor nodes is a complex, ad hoc, and error‐prone process where the portability among different platforms has been sacrificed. In this paper, we propose an open framework aimed to achieve application portability in heterogeneous sensor networks. Our approach provides the programming abstractions needed to support the application development process for sensor nodes. We have implemented an open framework that provides a set of tools on top of the most popular WSN operating systems to translate portable applications to the native operating system in an automatic, simple, and transparent way for developers. We have also evaluated the applications thus generated in terms of productivity and overhead, by comparing their footprint to those originally developed in each specific operating system. The results show that the overhead is minimal—4% in the worst case—and in some cases, it was even possible to reduce the footprint by using code optimizations. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…The research field is referred to as sensor programming abstraction in [5], [6]. Existing studies also standardize the event subscription and notification flows among physical and virtual (or logical) sensors [7], [8], [9], [10], [11] so that we can easily establish a network of devices.…”

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An integrated device and service discovery with UPnP and ONS to facilitate the composition of smart home applications

Mitsugi

Sato

Ozawa

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)

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This paper proposes a device and capability discovery protocol with integrated Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) and Object Naming Service (ONS). The protocol automatically establishes a list of available devices -sensors, actuators and electronic apparatus -in our home. Since each device is identified with a globally unique Electronic Product Code (EPC) in the protocol, the capability of discovered device can be obtained through ONS without implementing a complex capability description exchange protocol in the device. The up-to-dated list of all the available devices facilitates the compositions of smart home applications. This paper overviews the device and capability discovery protocol. Illustrative smart home applications in our campus enabled by the proposed protocol are also reported.

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An operating system abstraction layer for portable applications in wireless sensor networks

Cited by 11 publications

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Wireless sensor network virtualization: A survey

Wireless sensor network virtualization: A survey

An open framework for translating portable applications into operating system‐specific wireless sensor networks applications

An integrated device and service discovery with UPnP and ONS to facilitate the composition of smart home applications

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