Abstract
The Internet-of-Things paradigm shifts the focus of sensor networks from simple monitoring to more dynamic networking scenarios where the nodes need to adapt to changing requirements and conditions. For this purpose many configuration options are added to the network protocols. Today, however, they can only be modified at compile-time, which seriously limits the ability to adapt the behaviour of the network.
To overcome this, a solution is proposed that allows reconfiguring the entire network stack remotely using CoAP. The Contiki implementation shows that for a small memory overhead (1.2 kB) up to 57 configuration parameters can be reconfigured dynamically. The average latency for reconfiguring one parameter in a twenty node network is only three seconds. A simple case-study illustrates how the energy consumption of an application can be reduced with (50 %) by dynamically fine-tuning the MAC duty-cycle.
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This work was partially supported by the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (FWO-V), project “ASN: wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks”, grant #G.0763.12, and the agency for Innovation by Science and Technology Flanders (IWT-V), project “SAMURAI: Software Architecture and Modules for Unified RAdIo control”, and the iMinds IoT Strategic Research program, and European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme under grant agreement n645274 (WiSHFUL).
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Ruckebusch, P., Van Damme, J., De Poorter, E., Moerman, I. (2016). Dynamic Reconfiguration of Network Protocols for Constrained Internet-of-Things Devices. In: Mandler, B., et al. Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures. IoT360 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 170. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47075-7_31
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