An Experimental Comparison of Event Driven and Multi-Threaded Sensor Node Operating Systems

Author

Duffy, Cormac ; Roedig, Utz ; Herbert, John ; Sreenan, Cormac

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Coll. Cork

fYear

2007

fDate

19-23 March 2007

Firstpage

267

Lastpage

271

Abstract

Two different operating system types are currently considered for sensor networks: event driven and multi-threaded. This paper compares the two well-known operating systems TinyOS (event driven) and MANTIS (multi-threaded) regarding their memory usage, power consumption and processing capabilities. TinyOS and MANTIS are both ported to the DSYS25 sensor platform. Both operating systems are used to execute the same sensor network application and the aforementioned parameters of interest are measured. The results presented in this paper show for which set of applications each operating system is preferable

Keywords

operating systems (computers); telecommunication computing; wireless sensor networks; MANTIS; TinyOS; event driven; multithreaded sensor node operating systems; sensor networks; Computer science; Educational institutions; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Network operating systems; Operating systems; Sensor systems; Sensor systems and applications; Sleep; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 2007. PerCom Workshops '07. Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

White Plains, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2788-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERCOMW.2007.21

Filename

4144839