TinyOS – An Operating System for Tiny Embedded Networked Sensors

This paper discusses the background and application requirements that motivated the development of TinyOS. It enumerates the characteristics associated with any typical Networked Sensor application. The hardware platform that was used for deploying TinyOS is also described. The design aspects of the Event based TinyOS is discussed in detail. This paper also enlightens the Tiny Active Messaging Model used by the TinyOS for data communication and its implementation concepts. The paper goes ahead and describes some application level communication concepts like managing packet buffers, Network discovery and Ad Hoc Routing and Media Access and Transmission Control. Then there is a bunch of discussions that includes topics like Evaluation of TinyOS, Comparison of TinyOS with other Operating Systems and Future Research Work.