Advances in Sensor Network Operating Systems

A special issue of Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (ISSN 2224-2708).

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Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada
Interests: mobile computing systems and the mobile internet; MANETs and WSN; network protocols; operating systems; middleware
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Research Manager, Mobile ad hoc and Sensor Network Systems, Communications Research Centre, Government of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K2H8S2, Canada
Interests: specific to wireless sensor networks (WSN): transport protocols for WSN; localization techniques for WSN; deployment; configuration and communication in sensor networks

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Wireless Sensor Networks are an integral component of the Internet of Things, a vision that sees sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects having identities and physical attributes, and are integrated seamlessly into an information network that can linked to the Internet.

This interlinking of the physical world and cyberspace opens many exciting opportunities. In order for this vision to become reality, progress on many fronts is required, such as facilitating the flexible programming of sensors and actuators. In this special issue, we are calling for papers that describe recent advances in the design, implementation, and experience with operating systems for sensor and actuator networks. We explicitly solicit papers describing work on innovative operating systems (OS) for individual sensor nodes as well as innovative techniques for extracting information from transducers using an OS that can be used for WSNs. We are also interested in work on approaches to programming collections of sensor nodes using high-level abstractions (programming- in-the-large). Papers describing experience with real-world deployments and lessons learned are also welcome. Original papers that address the most current issues and challenges are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Resource Management
  • Energy Management and Harvesting
  • Memory Management
  • Security Management
  • OS Support for Real-time Applications
  • OS Support for Network QoS
  • Programming Abstractions and Middleware
  • Programming Models
  • Adoption of General-Purpose OSs to WSN (Android, embedded Linux, etc.)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kunz
Ms. Louise Lamont
Guest Editors

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Wireless Sensor Network Operating System Design Rules Based on Real-World Deployment Survey
by Girts Strazdins, Atis Elsts, Krisjanis Nesenbergs and Leo Selavo
J. Sens. Actuator Netw. 2013, 2(3), 509-556; https://doi.org/10.3390/jsan2030509 - 16 Aug 2013
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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 [...] Read more.
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. Full article
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An Adaptive Strategy for an Optimized Collision-Free Slot Assignment in Multichannel Wireless Sensor Networks
by Ridha Soua, Erwan Livolant and Pascale Minet
J. Sens. Actuator Netw. 2013, 2(3), 449-485; https://doi.org/10.3390/jsan2030449 - 16 Jul 2013
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Convergecast is the transmission paradigm used by data gathering applications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). For efficiency reasons, a collision-free slotted medium access is typically used: time slots are assigned to non-conflicting transmitters. Furthermore, in any slot, only the transmitters and the corresponding [...] Read more.
Convergecast is the transmission paradigm used by data gathering applications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). For efficiency reasons, a collision-free slotted medium access is typically used: time slots are assigned to non-conflicting transmitters. Furthermore, in any slot, only the transmitters and the corresponding receivers are awake, the other nodes sleeping in order to save energy. Since a multichannel network increases the throughput available to the application and reduces interference, multichannel slot assignment is an emerging research domain in WSNs. First, we focus on a multichannel time slot assignment that minimizes the data gathering delays. We compute the optimal time needed for a raw data convergecast in various multichannel topologies. Then, we focus on how to adapt such an assignment to dynamic demands of transmissions (e.g., alarms, temporary additional application needs and retransmissions). We formalize the problem using linear programming, and we propose an incremental technique that operates on an optimized primary schedule to provide bonus slots to meet new transmission needs. We propose AMSA, an Adaptive Multichannel Slot Assignment algorithm, which takes advantage of bandwidth spatial reuse, and we evaluate its performances in terms of the number of slots required, slot reuse, throughput and the number of radio state switches. Full article
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