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