DSML4TinyOS: Code generation for wireless devices

Abstract

There are various operating systems and programming languages for programming the low power wireless devices in the Internet of Things (IoT). This heterogeneity makes the process of programming these devices time-consuming and complex. In our running study, we aim to deploy Model-driven Engineering (MDE) techniques in order to increase the level of abstraction to deal with this complexity. To this end, our purpose is to provide a platform-independent modeling framework for the development of IoT programs from developers' domain models. This will be realized by developing various platform specific modeling environments for different IoT operating systems and their programming languages. In this paper, we present DSML4TinyOS; a Domain-specific Modeling Language for TinyOS with which the developers can generate architectural code for low power wireless devices in nesC language. The metamodel, graphical concrete syntax, constraint checking rules, and model to text transformation rules of DSML4TinyOS are introduced and a case study is presented for the evaluation of the proposed DSML. © 2018 CEUR-WS. All rights reserved.