File system framework for organizing sensor networks

Abstract

We present a filesystem based framework to support common operations and applications in the sensor networks domain. The framework uses virtual filesystems to encapsulate resources at various levels of the sensor network hierarchy that are exported to clients who can then use common file operations to interact with the network. Our approach is scalable, supports concurrent access of sensors and is compatible with lightweight sensor architectures. In this paper we introduce file representation of sensor networks, describe the general architecture used in implementing the framework and illustrate its use in supporting common sensor network operations.