DocumentCode
2846565
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
fYear
2011
fDate
16-18 Dec. 2011
Firstpage
373
Lastpage
375
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), 2011 Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location
Beijing
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-2178-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MSN.2011.93
Filename
6117448
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