A driver model based on Linux for TinyOS

The incessant increment of hardware platforms for wireless sensor nodes and their heterogeneity make evident the crucial necessity of adapting the TinyOS operating system in order to cover the new hardware requirements and provide interfaces able to hide the complexity to the programmers. In this sense, we propose a driver model based on Linux to be integrated with TinyOS. This work reviews the TinyOS drivers deficiencies and studies how the adaptation of the Linux driver model could contribute to the applications portability.