Title :
A Simulator for Flexible Sensor Nodes in Wireless Networks
Author :
Zhang, Jingyao ; Iyer, Srikrishna ; Schaumont, Patrick ; Yang, Yaling
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA
Abstract :
Most current sensor nodes are composed of a microcontroller and a radio. Their real-time and peak performance would be a bottleneck when executing compute-intensive tasks. Several works demonstrate that adding a hardware co-processor could accelerate the execution speed of the sensor nodes. So far, no simulators can simulate these new sensor nodes in wireless networks. An extension to SUNSHINE [1], a hardware-software emulator is developed to fill the void.
Keywords :
coprocessors; microcontrollers; wireless sensor networks; compute-intensive task; flexible sensor node simulator; hardware coprocessor; hardware-software emulator; microcontroller; real-time performance; wireless network; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Microcontrollers; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks; FPGA; Simulator; sensor nodes; wireless sensor network;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), 2011 Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2178-6
DOI :
10.1109/MSN.2011.93
