Abstract
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been a widely researched field since the beginning of the 21st century. The field is already maturing, and TinyOS has established itself as the de facto standard WSN Operating System (OS). However, the WSN researcher community is still active in building more flexible, efficient and user-friendly WSN operating systems. Often, WSN OS design is based either on practical requirements of a particular research project or research group's needs or on theoretical assumptions spread in the WSN community. The goal of this paper is to propose WSN OS design rules that are based on a thorough survey of 40 WSN deployments. The survey unveils trends of WSN applications and provides empirical substantiation to support widely usable and flexible WSN operating system design.
Highlights
Wireless sensor networks are a relatively new field in computer science and engineering
The goal of this paper is to summarize Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) deployment surveys and analyze the collected data in the Operating System (OS) context, clarifying typical deployment parameters that are important in WSN OS design
The extracted design rulesshould be considered as WSN deployment trends that suggest particular design choices to OS architects
Summary
Wireless sensor networks are a relatively new field in computer science and engineering. New hardware platforms [2,3], operating systems [4,5], J. 2013, 2 middleware [6,7], networking [8], time synchronization [9], localization [10] and other protocols have been proposed by the research community. TinyOS [4] has been the de facto standard operating system in the community since 2002. As the survey will reveal, customized platforms and operating systems are often used, emphasizing the still actual WSN user need for a flexible and usable OS
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