Five Years of IEEE 802.15.4 Radio HAL and Co. - Challenges, Insights and Lessons Learned

Explore the five-year evolution of IEEE 802.15.4 Radio HAL integration in RIOT OS through this 15-minute conference presentation by José Alamos from HAW Hamburg at RIOT Summit 2025. Discover the original motivations behind reworking the 802.15.4 stack and follow the comprehensive journey of achieving seamless IEEE 802.15.4 integration in the RIOT operating system. Learn about the challenges, successes, and setbacks encountered during this development process while examining the current state of the Radio HAL and SubMAC components. Gain insights into future directions for the technology and understand valuable lessons learned about designing hardware APIs and navigating community-driven decisions in open-source projects. Benefit from best practices and practical guidance for tackling similar embedded systems integration projects, presented by an active RIOT OS maintainer and Ph.D. researcher specializing in reliable, low-power LPWAN MAC protocols.