Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; About This Book; Highlights; Intended Audience; Organization of the Book; Acknowledgment; Part One: Overview; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Embedded Systems Applications; 1.2 Characteristics of Embedded Systems Applications; 1.3 Embedded Systems-Hardware and Software; 1.4 Modeling-An Integral Part of the Embedded Systems Design Flow; 1.5 Optimization in Embedded Systems; 1.6 Chapter Summary; Chapter 2: Multicore-Based EWSNs-An Example of Parallel and Distributed Embedded Systems
2.1 Multicore Embedded Wireless Sensor Network Architecture2.2 Multicore Embedded Sensor Node Architecture; 2.3 Compute-Intensive Tasks Motivating the Emergence of MCEWSNs; 2.4 MCEWSN Application Domains; 2.5 Multicore Embedded Sensor Nodes; 2.6 Research Challenges and Future Research Directions; 2.7 Chapter Summary; Part Two: Modeling; Chapter 3: An Application Metrics Estimation Model for Embedded Wireless Sensor Networks; 3.1 Application Metrics Estimation Model; 3.2 Experimental Results; 3.3 Chapter Summary
Chapter 4: Modeling and Analysis of Fault Detection and Fault Tolerance in Embedded Wireless Sensor Networks4.1 Related Work; 4.2 Fault Diagnosis in WSNs; 4.3 Distributed Fault Detection Algorithms; 4.4 Fault-Tolerant Markov Models; 4.5 Simulation of Distributed Fault Detection Algorithms; 4.6 Numerical Results; 4.7 Research Challenges and Future Research Directions; 4.8 Chapter Summary; Chapter 5: A Queueing Theoretic Approach for Performance Evaluation of Low-Power Multicore-Based Parallel Embedded Systems; 5.1 Related Work; 5.2 Queueing Network Modeling of Multicore Embedded Architectures
5.3 Queueing Network Model Validation5.4 Queueing Theoretic Model Insights; 5.5 Chapter Summary; Part Three: Optimization; Chapter 6: Optimization Approaches in Distributed Embedded Wireless Sensor Networks; 6.1 Architecture-Level Optimizations; 6.2 Sensor Node Component-Level Optimizations; 6.3 Data Link-Level Medium Access Control Optimizations; 6.4 Network-Level Data Dissemination and Routing Protocol Optimizations; 6.5 Operating System-Level Optimizations; 6.6 Dynamic Optimizations; 6.7 Chapter Summary
Chapter 7: High-Performance Energy-Efficient Multicore-Based Parallel Embedded Computing7.1 Characteristics of Embedded Systems Applications; 7.2 Architectural Approaches; 7.3 Hardware-Assisted Middleware Approaches; 7.4 Software Approaches; 7.5 High-Performance Energy-Efficient Multicore Processors; 7.6 Challenges and Future Research Directions; 7.7 Chapter Summary; Chapter 8: An MDP-Based Dynamic Optimization Methodology for Embedded Wireless Sensor Networks; 8.1 Related Work; 8.2 MDP-Based Tuning Overview; 8.3 Application-Specific Embedded Sensor Node Tuning Formulation as an MDP
