Contiki Support & Resources

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Community Support

Most Contiki developers hang out on the contiki-developers mailing list. The list is a friendly place where good questions asked the right way typically receive constructive answers.

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Community Wiki

The Contiki community wiki contains community-provided information about Contiki.

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Doxygen Documentation

The Contiki source code contains Doxygen mark-up that is used to automatically generate Doxygen documentation.

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Books

These two books cover the Internet of Things technologies:

Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP - the Next Internet

By JP Vasseur and Adam Dunkels.

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6LoWPAN: The Wireless Embedded Internet

By Zach Shelby and Carsten Bormann.

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Scientific Papers

Many of the mechanisms behind Contiki have been published in the computer science literature through the papers below. These papers provide technical details and reasoning behind many of the Contiki mechanisms.

Low-power IP Networking in Contiki

The ContikiMAC Radio Duty Cycling Protocol. Adam Dunkels. Technical report 2011.
Lossy Links, Low Power, High Throughput. Simon Duquennoy, Fredrik Österlind, and Adam Dunkels. ACM SenSys 2011.
Beyond Interoperability: Pushing the Performance of Sensornet IP Stacks. JeongGil Ko, Joakim Eriksson, Nicolas Tsiftes, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty, Mathilde Durvy, JP Vasseur, Andreas Terzis, Adam Dunkels, and David Culler. ACM SenSys 2011
A Low-power CoAP for Contiki. Matthias Kovatsch, Simon Duquennoy, and Adam Dunkels. IEEE IoTech 2011.
Efficient Application Integration in IP-based Sensor Networks. Dogan Yazar and Adam Dunkels. ACM BuildSys 2009.
Making Sensor Networks IPv6 Ready. Mathilde Durvy, Julien Abeillé, Patrick Wetterwald, Colin O'Flynn, Blake Leverett, Eric Gnoske, Michael Vidales, Geoff Mulligan, Nicolas Tsiftes, Niclas Finne, and Adam Dunkels. ACM SenSys 2008.
Making TCP/IP Viable for Wireless Sensor Networks. Adam Dunkels, Thiemo Voigt, and Juan Alonso. EWSN 2004.
Full TCP/IP for 8 Bit Architectures. Adam Dunkels. MobiSys 2003.

Contiki Mechanisms

A database in every sensor. Nicolas Tsiftes and Adam Dunkels. ACM SenSys 2011.
The Announcement Layer: Beacon Coordination for the Sensornet Stack. Adam Dunkels, Luca Mottola, Nicolas Tsiftes, Fredrik Österlind, Joakim Eriksson, and Niclas Finne. EWSN 2011. Slides.
Enabling Large-Scale Storage in Sensor Networks with the Coffee File System. Nicolas Tsiftes, Adam Dunkels, Zhitao He, and Thiemo Voigt. IPSN 2009.
An adaptive communication architecture for wireless sensor networks. Adam Dunkels, Fredrik Österlind, and Zhitao He. ACM SenSys 2007.
Run-time dynamic linking for reprogramming wireless sensor networks. Adam Dunkels, Niclas Finne, Joakim Eriksson, and Thiemo Voigt. ACM SenSys 2006.
Software-based on-line energy estimation for sensor nodes.. Adam Dunkels, Fredrik Österlind, Nicolas Tsiftes, and Zhitao He. EmNets 2007.
Protothreads: Simplifying event-driven programming of memory-constrained embedded systems. Adam Dunkels, Oliver Schmidt, Thiemo Voigt, and Muneeb Ali. ACM SenSys 2006.

White Papers

There are a number of white papers published on low-power IP technology.

IPSO Alliance White papers

The IP for Smart Objects (IPSO) Alliance has a number of white papers related to low-power IP technology.

IPSO Alliance White Papers »