LIGHT Project - Deliverable D2.2: Requirements analysis for footprint and power constrained devices

This project deliverable carries out a significant number of technical studies on the applicability of Web services in distributed embedded systems, that is investigate if resource-limited devices are capable and fast enough to run Web services. The main purpose of this document is to summarize the results of the evaluation of existing technologies that could be of interest to WSED (Web Services for Embedded Devices) architecture. Our approach isn't to develop a new prototype implementation of a tool for Web services but to experiment the modern solutions for testing them on our architecture. In this work we have concluded that Web services are applicable in distributed embedded systems, but applying it introduces an overhead, in terms of CPU, memory, and network usage.