Developing an Embedded Linux Min-Server with Database Support

Due to the maturity and popularity of wireless technologies, more and more digital devices support the wireless accessibility as an essential function. As a result, many emerging mobile services and applications are being implemented on such devices.

There are already a lot of applications of embedded and networking areas in people’s daily life. Most of these embedded applications limit themselves in some particular functions, such as an IEEE 802.11 access point, a broadband IP router, or a NAT with firewall. If people want to provide some other functions, using other additional machines to provide the desired services may be a possible solution. There is no reason why people cannot embed these services into the existing embedded system!

In this thesis, we describe and implement an embedded wireless mini-server platform with database support, which can be used to build many wireless applications and services. The goal is to make the mini-server platform small in dimension, low in cost and power consumption, and very easy to develop new mobile applications on.