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In Ubiquitous computing small embedded sensor and computing nodes are one of 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 for sensor nodes platforms providing a common organization structure and a lightweight and uniform access model for sensors and all other resources on sensor nodes. This mechanism forms an abstraction from different hardware, makes functions re-useable and simplifies the development on such systems. With ParticleFS an file system implementation on a sensor node platform is shown. As an example a telnet application running on sensor nodes was implemented demonstrating the usage of the approach for system programming on such platforms.
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Decker, C., Beigl, M., Krohn, A. (2005). A File System for System Programming in Ubiquitous Computing. In: Beigl, M., Lukowicz, P. (eds) Systems Aspects in Organic and Pervasive Computing - ARCS 2005. ARCS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3432. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31967-2_18
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