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title: RIOT - The friendly Operating System for the IoT
url: https://www.riot-os.org/
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  type: article
  authors:
    - family-names: Baccelli
      given-names: Emmanuel
    - family-names: Gündoğan
      given-names: Cenk
    - family-names: Hahm
      given-names: Oliver
    - family-names: Kietzmann
      given-names: Peter
    - family-names: Lenders
      given-names: Martine S.
    - family-names: Petersen
      given-names: Hauke
    - family-names: Schleiser
      given-names: Kaspar
    - family-names: Schmidt
      given-names: Thomas C.
    - family-names: Wählisch
      given-names: Matthias
  title: "RIOT: An Open Source Operating System for Low-End Embedded Devices in the IoT"
  url: https://www.riot-os.org/assets/pdfs/riot-ieeeiotjournal-2018.pdf
  journal: IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  scope: "If you use this software, we prefer that you cite our paper as below."
  publisher:
    - name: IEEE
  month: 3
  year: 2018
  volume: 5
  issue: 6
  pages: 4428-4440
  doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2018.2815038
  abstract: >
    As the Internet of Things (IoT) emerges, compact operating systems (OSs) are
    required on low-end devices to ease development and portability of IoT
    applications. RIOT is a prominent free and open source OS in this space. In
    this paper, we provide the first comprehensive overview of RIOT. We cover
    the key components of interest to potential developers and users: the
    kernel, hardware abstraction, and software modularity, both conceptually and
    in practice for various example configurations. We explain operational
    aspects like system boot-up, timers, power management, and the use of
    networking. Finally, the relevant APIs as exposed by the OS are discussed
    along with the larger ecosystem around RIOT, including development and open
    source community aspects.