A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
From threads to events: Adapting a lightweight middleware for Contiki OS
Authors: Noman Uzair A, Negash Behailu, Rahmani Amir M, Liljeberg Pasi, Tenhunen Hannu
Conference name: IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Publication year: 2017
Journal name in source: 2017 14th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2017
Series title: IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
First page : 486
Last page: 491
Number of pages: 6
ISBN: 978-1-5090-6197-6
eISBN: 978-1-5090-6196-9
ISSN: 2331-9852
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2017.7983156
Interoperability is one of the key requirements in the Internet of Things considering the diverse platforms, communication standards and specifications available today. Inherent resource constraints in the majority of IoT devices makes it very difficult to use existing solutions for interoperability, thus demanding new approaches. This paper presents the process of adapting a lightweight interoperability middleware for IoT, LISA, from RIOT to Contiki OS and evaluates memory and power overheads. The middleware follows a service oriented architecture and classifies devices according to available resources to assign different roles, such as Application, Service and Manager Nodes. These roles live in different tiers in a generic IoT architecture, where the Manager nodes are located in the intermediate Fog layer. To adapt to an event based kernel of Contiki, the middleware defines and handles a set of events that are used to communicate with the user application. A network of nodes is simulated to show the architecture promoted by the middleware and the results are presented.