Design and Implementation of an IEEE 802.15.4 Protocol Stack in Embedded Linux Kernel

Author

Feng, Li-Chi ; Chen, Hsin-Yang ; Li, Tsung-Hsien ; Chiou, Jr-Jung ; Shen, Chung-Chiu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Chang Gung Univ., Kweishan, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

20-23 April 2010

Firstpage

251

Lastpage

256

Abstract

The ZigBee standard is one of the most popular protocols which aimed at wireless sensor network applications. It relies on IEEE 802.15.4 to form a complete protocol stack. In most existing implementation, a central processor is used to execute embedded operating system and another microprocessor is required to carry out the IEEE 802.15.4 protocol. In this paper, we present a design and implementation of IEEE 802.15.4 software stack in Embedded Linux kernel. We overcome many problems about embedding wireless communication protocols stack into Embedded Linux kernel including accurate timer implementation, precise beacon synchronization and various resource contention issues and successfully use a host CPU to carry out both IEEE 802.15.4 protocol stack and operating systems at the same time. Preliminary experiments show that our system operating normally and can offer developers another kind of feasible scheme.

Keywords

IEEE standards; Linux; embedded systems; operating system kernels; personal area networks; protocols; IEEE 802.15.4 protocol stack; ZigBee standard; embedded Linux kernel; wireless sensor network applications; Application software; Embedded software; Kernel; Linux; Microprocessors; Operating systems; Wireless application protocol; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; ZigBee; IEEE802.15.4; Linux Kernel; Sensor Network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA), 2010 IEEE 24th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Perth, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6701-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAINA.2010.72

Filename

5480912