Low-power networking on MirageOS
Mentors: Magnus Skjegstad, Lucas Pluvinage
Location: Tarides office, Paris
MirageOS is an ecosystem of libraries and tools to build
specialized applications, known as unikernels. Running on virtualized environments
and bare-metal devices, the main way of communication is by using a network stack.
For usual applications, mirage-tcpip is the way to go, but protocols are missing
for power-constrained devices.
This internship aims at developing a low-power IPv6 stack for MirageOS to run on the nRF52840-MDK board through its Bluetooth networking features. This implies experimenting and building the whole stack bottom-up, leveraging the existing MirageOS stack and RIOT-OS APIs:
- Link-layer: Bluetooth Low-Energy or 802.15.4
- Adaptation layer: 6lowpan
- Routing: RPL
- IPV6: mirage-tcpip
Preliminary work includes developing a standard IPv6 stack for the nRF52840-MDK board
based on RIOT's Ethernet-over-serial driver and mirage-tcpip.
Topics
- MirageOS
- Networking stacks
- Constrained devices
- Low-power networking
- Routing protocols