Design and Development of Lightweight Operating System Framework for Smart Devices

Abstract

Immeasurable extension of technology for smart devices is perceived in the present scenario, and has resulted in advancements in the growth of such smart devices in diverse domains. An application specific, customized, and lightweight operating system (OS) eventually builds the complete smart device. The user may face difficulties in developing application specific customized OS because of lack of knowledge or resource constraints. The aim of this paper is to assist the users through a generic smart framework that significantly reduces the constraints in the design and development of smart devices and help the users to automatically build an application specific lightweight customized OS. The targeted framework comprises an intelligent graphical user interface that directs the selection of processor and application specific key components. The performance analysis of the framework is done through an experimental test on two different application areas. The findings infer that the size and boot time of an OS build from the framework diminishes by more than 50%.