Title :
Exploiting safe parallelism in Wireless Sensor Networks: A generic and reconfigurable approach
Author :
Ueyama, Jo ; Hughes, Danny ; Grace, P. ; Madeira, Edmundo R. M.
Author_Institution :
ICMC, Univ. of Sao Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil
Abstract :
The deployment of complex, multi-threaded sensor network applications is growing rapidly (e.g there are dual-core sensor mote platforms such as the Microsoft m-platform). This paper argues that parallelism can benefit networked sensors, particularly if it is based on a safe approach, i.e., follows a deadlock-free paradigm. Sensor network applications should be deadlock-free because applications running on sensor networks are often critical and thus, it is undesirable to encounter concurrency problems in such environments. This paper presents an approach to ensuring safe parallelism in sensor networks and shows a number of potential benefits to this domain. This is particularly highlighted by a case study on runtime reconfigurable wireless network communication that promotes deadlock-free reconfigurable parallelism.
Keywords :
telecommunication security; wireless sensor networks; Microsoft m-platform; complex deployment; deadlock-free paradigm; deadlock-free reconfigurable parallelism; dual-core sensor mote platforms; generic approach; multithreaded sensor network; reconfigurable approach; runtime reconfigurable wireless network communication; safe parallelism; wireless sensor networks; Java; Kernel; Loading; Parallel processing; Runtime; System recovery; Middlewares; Parallel Processing; Wireless Sensor Networks;
Conference_Titel :
Networked Embedded Systems for Every Application (NESEA), 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Liverpool
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4721-1
DOI :
10.1109/NESEA.2012.6474011