Performance Analysis of Hardware/Software Middleware in Network of Smart Camera Systems

Author

Zarezadeh, Ali Akbar ; Bobda, Christophe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

196

Lastpage

201

Abstract

This paper focuses on the implementation and performance analysis of a hardware/Software implementation of a Object Request Broker (ORB) to support a network of Distributed Smart Camera (DSC) systems. We present the overall system architecture as a part of the whole System on Chip (SoC) within FPGA. The performance analysis performed on a software as well as on our hybrid implementation is explained. Thus, network latencies, i.,e. time traversing the TCP/IP stack, were measured using both Software and Hardware ORB approaches on the same platform. The empirical results show that using the proposed Hardware ORB as client and server in separate smart camera nodes will considerably reduce the network latency up to 100 times better than the Software ORB.

Keywords

cameras; field programmable gate arrays; middleware; reconfigurable architectures; system-on-chip; FPGA; distributed smart camera systems; hardware/software middleware; object request broker; system on chip; CORBA; Distributed Smart Camera; FPGA; Hardware ORB; Middleware; TCP offloading;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Quintana Roo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9523-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4314-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ReConFig.2010.59

Filename

5695305