A file system for system programming in ubiquitous computing

Personal Technologies - Tập 11 - Trang 21-31 - 2005
Christian Decker1, Till Riedel1, Michael Beigl1, Albert Krohn1
1TecO, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Tóm tắt

In Ubiquitous computing, small embedded sensor and computing nodes are the main enabling technologies. System programming for such small embedded systems is a challenging task involving various hardware components with different characteristics. This paper presents a file system which organizes all computational and sensory functionality of a sensor node as resources in a uniform name space. It further provides a lightweight and uniform access model for all these resources. This mechanism forms an abstraction from different hardware, makes functions re-useable and simplifies the development on such systems. With ParticleFS a concrete file system implementation on a sensor node platform is shown. Application cases demonstrate sensor logging, an interactive shell, executables, a pipe mechanism and remote access capabilities of the ParticleFS.

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