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Operating Systems for Low-End Devices in the Internet of Things: A Survey

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is projected to soon interconnect tens of billions of new devices, in large part also connected to the Internet. IoT devices include both high-end devices which can use traditional go-to operating systems (OSs) such as Linux, and low-end devices which cannot, due to stringent resource constraints, e.g., very limited memory, computational power, and power supply. However, large-scale IoT software development, deployment, and maintenance requires an appropriate OS to build upon. In this paper, we thus analyze in detail the specific requirements that an OS should satisfy to run on low-end IoT devices, and we survey applicable OSs, focusing on candidates that could become an equivalent of Linux for such devices, i.e., a one-size-fits-most, open source OS for low-end IoT devices.

Source: IEEE Internet of Things Journal

DOI: 10.1109/jiot.2015.2505901

Authors: Oliver Hahm, Emmanuel Baccelli, Hauke Petersen, Nicolas Tsiftes

Institutions: Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, Freie Universität Berlin, Swedish Institute of Computer Science

Language: English

Topic: IoT and Edge/Fog Computing

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

Funders: Agence Nationale de la Recherche, VINNOVA