Scripting Over-The-Air: Towards Containers on Low-end Devices in the Internet of Things

Emmanuel Baccelli (1, 2) , Joerg Doerr (3) , Shinji Kikuchi (4) , Francisco Acosta Padilla (1) , Kaspar Schleiser (1) , Ian Thomas (4)

1 INFINE - INFormation NEtworks
2 INFINE-POST - INFormation NEtworks
3 Fraunhofer IESE - Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering
4 Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.

The Internet of Things (IoT) connects a variety of small devices, via gateways, to the cloud. Use-cases often require IoT devices to run logic that is not predetermined before deployment, and that must be updated during the lifetime of the device. In this paper, we explore the potential of over-the-air scripting and updatable runtime containers hosting application logic on heterogeneous low-end IoT devices. Based on RIOT and Javascript, we provide a proof-of-concept implementation of this approach for a building automation IoT scenario. A preliminary evaluation shows our prototype runs on common off-the-shelf low-end IoT hardware with as little as 32kB of memory.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Emmanuel Baccelli, Joerg Doerr, Shinji Kikuchi, Francisco Acosta Padilla, Kaspar Schleiser, et al.. Scripting Over-The-Air: Towards Containers on Low-end Devices in the Internet of Things. IEEE PerCom 2018, Mar 2018, Athens, Greece. pp.1-4. ⟨hal-01766610⟩