A File System for System Programming in Ubiquitous Computing

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 e resources. This mechanism forms an abstraction from different hardware, makes functions re-useable and simplifies the development on such systems. With ParticleFS a conrete 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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ARCS
• Authors: Christian Decker, Michael Beigl, Albert Krohn
• Keywords: ARCS 2005, Sensor Node, Sensor Node Platform, Small Embedded Sensor