An Empirical Study on Approaches of Internet of Things Reconfiguration

Internet of Things (IoTs) has recently got a plethora of research, and in the deployment of IoTs applications, IoTs devices can be located in the remote areas or dangerous places. Additionally, IoTs application might need to be updated to change behaviors under the dynamic changes of environment or unpredicted events. Therefore, the reconfiguration of IoTs devices and applications over-the-air (OTA) through the IoTs network protocols is of vital importance. In IoTs reconfiguration, there are many middlewares and softwares have been developed and deployed. In this paper, we review and classify different approaches on IoTs reconfiguration, and select TinyOS/Telosb platform to perform empirical experiments to compare among those approaches on the resources usage, code dissemination time as well as summary results of analyzing packet transmission between wireless sensor nodes.