Non-invasive rapid and efficient firmware update for wireless sensor networks

Park, Hui Ung; Jeong, Jongsoo; Mah, Pyeongsoo

doi:10.1145/2638728.2638782

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“…This is a significant advantage of the XFSM representation, potentially avoiding long periods of traffic load on IOT networks performing an image update. Monolithic XMAC 1242 [16] Toolchain XMAC 3326 [18] 6LoWPAN router 47772…”

Section: A Xfsm and Bytecode Sizementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Fully Programmable Internet of Things

Bruniaux

Montavont

Noël

et al. 2022

2022 18th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)

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The devices of Internet of Things (IoT) networks can be deployed for extended period of time in inaccessible locations. After their deployment, new features, bug fixes, or changes in the client needs can require an update of the node's behavior, and this update has to be transmitted over the radio medium. Proposals have been made in the literature to apply the Software Defined Network (SDN) paradigm to wireless sensor networks but they focus on the packet forwarding layer of the stack. In this work, we propose to extend the programmability to the whole stack with a fully programmable device architecture able to handle the runtime programming of every protocol on any hardware. We detail the use of extended finite-state machines (XFSM) on which the architecture is based and their conversion to compact executable bytecode that can be sent over radio. Simulations demonstrate that this architecture can reproduce a protocol from the literature and enable interoperability between programmable nodes and legacy nodes.

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Section: A Xfsm and Bytecode Sizementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards a Fully Programmable Internet of Things

Bruniaux

Montavont

Noël

et al. 2022

2022 18th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)

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“…Firmware update process essential stages [28] and linking are used. For example in [51], the MAP file along with the binary files produced before and after the static linking are used. A MAP file contains the relative offset and length of each object in the firmware and it can be produced by the linker, providing additional valuable information regarding memory usage [52].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This technique was presented by the incremental firmware update algorithm MoRE [51]. In order to create the firmware image, many object files are linked together.…”

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confidence: 99%

Firmware over-the-air programming techniques for IoT networks -- A survey

Arakadakis¹,

Charalampidis²,

Makrogiannakis³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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The devices forming the Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks need to be re-programmed over-the-air, so that new features are added, software bugs or security vulnerabilities are resolved and their applications can be re-purposed. The limitations of IoT devices, such as installation in locations with limited physical access, resource-constraint nature, large scale and high heterogeneity, should be taken into consideration for designing an efficient and reliable pipeline for over-the-air programming (OTAP). In this work, we present a survey of OTAP techniques, which can be applied to IoT networks. We highlight the main challenges and limitations of OTAP for IoT devices and analyse the essential steps of firmware update process, along with different approaches and techniques that implement them. In addition, we discuss schemes that focus on securing the OTAP process. Finally, we present a collection of state-of-the art open-source and commercial platforms that integrate secure and reliable OTAP.

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“…Various models have been proposed for the application of updates in WSNs [27], [28], [30], [37], [38], [40], [42], [49], [52], [53], [54], [60], [61], [66]. To the best of our knowledge, the vast majority of them deal with centralized systems.…”

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“…Various operating systems like Contiki [13], LiteOS [9] and RETOS [8] already support dynamic linking and updates loading, however, the adopted ELF format (Contiki adopts the format) leads to binaries potentially large for transfer [62]. In these cases, the minimization of the disseminated messages [54] can reduce the load of the network. In general, legacy dissemination protocols assume an ad-hoc network and use a form of controlled flooding [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

An efficient scheme for applying software updates in pervasive computing applications

Kolomvatsos

2019

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

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The Internet of Things (IoT) offers a vast infrastructure of numerous interconnected devices capable of communicating and exchanging data. Pervasive computing applications can be formulated on top of the IoT involving nodes that can interact with their environment and perform various processing tasks. Any task is part of intelligent services executed in nodes or the back end infrastructure for supporting end users' applications. In this setting, one can identify the need for applying updates in the software/firmware of the autonomous nodes.Updates are extensions or patches important for the efficient functioning of nodes. Legacy methodologies deal with centralized approaches where complex protocols are adopted to support the distribution of the updates in the entire network. In this paper, we depart from the relevant literature and propose a distributed model where each node is responsible to, independently, initiate and conclude the update process. Nodes monitor a set of metrics related to their load and the performance of the network and through a time-optimized scheme identify the appropriate time to conclude the update process. We report on an infinite horizon optimal stopping model on top of the collected performance data. The aim is to make nodes capable of identifying when their performance and the performance of the network are of high quality to efficiently conclude the update process. We provide specific formulations and the analysis of the * Corresponding author

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Non-invasive rapid and efficient firmware update for wireless sensor networks

Cited by 6 publications

References 4 publications

Towards a Fully Programmable Internet of Things

Towards a Fully Programmable Internet of Things

Firmware over-the-air programming techniques for IoT networks -- A survey

An efficient scheme for applying software updates in pervasive computing applications

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