Abstract—Data exchange between heterogeneous motes in a network requires careful understanding of the data model adopted by every mote type. This can be a very challenging concern, especially when dealing with a wide variety of motes at runtime where new nodes can join a network to provide certain services. This paper identifies the key architectural characteristics of two commonly recognized operating systems, namely TinyOS and Contiki, which behave differently when dealing with data exchange and state control. The aim is to map the architecture of TinyOS and Contiki on to a component-based software engineering model. This discussion leads to describing abstractly the design of a generic component-based middleware model to address interoperability issues when dealing with these two types of motes.

Index Terms—wireless sensor network; middleware; operating system; interoperability; component-based model

Cite: E. AlMousa and F. AlShahwan, "Performance Enhancement in 5G Mobile Network Processing," Lecture Notes on Information Theory, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 25-30, June 2015. doi: 10.18178/lnit.3.1.25-30