Smart home implementation in IoT involves practical challenges of management and scalability of connecting various non IP end-devices i.e. sensors and actuators behind the connnected home gateway. While there are separate standards for interaction ...

The development of distributed real-time systems often relies on clock synchronization. However, achieving precise synchronization in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is hampered by competing design challenges, such as energy consumption and ...

Reliable multicast over wireless poses interesting challenges arising from the unreliable nature of the wireless medium. Recovering lost packets is particularly challenging in multicast scenarios since different receivers lose different packets. For ...

There are many situations, such as in training and education, in which there is a frequent need to distribute large files to many clients, e.g., operating system boot images or raw data files. To carry out such distribution efficiently, we use wireless ...

Infotainment applications in vehicles are currently supported both by the in-vehicle platform, as well as by user's smart devices, such as smartphones and tablets. More and more the user expects that there is a continuous service of applications inside ...

Nowadays, virtualization is a popular technology to provide an abstract hardware emulation due to the increasing hardware speed and capabilities such as multi-core CPUs, large-size main memory, and high-bandwidth networking. Virtualization technology ...

Virtualization is a key technology to enable the use of multi-core processors in automotive embedded systems. For side-by-side execution of mixed-criticality applications that access shared communication infrastructures, a secure and safe virtualization ...

Auditory prosthesis (AP) is a widely used electronic device for patients suffering with severe hearing loss by electrically stimulating the auditory nerve using an electrode array surgically placed inside the inner ear. The AP also known as cochlear ...

EKG is a multiprocessor scheduling algorithm which is optimal for the schedule of real-time periodic tasks with implicit deadlines. It adheres to the deadline partitioning fair (DP-Fair) approach. However, it was shown in recent studies that the ...

The paper revisits the generation of interfaces for compositional real-time scheduling. Following an established line of research, we use periodic resource models in component interfaces to describe resource demand of the component. We identify a ...

Consider a single processor and a software system. The software system comprises components and interfaces where each component has an associated interface and each component comprises a set of constrained-deadline sporadic tasks. A scheduling algorithm ...

Mobile ad hoc networks are designed to work in environments, where the terrains have unpredictable obstacles such as hills, water bodies, buildings or regions without any nodes. In the mobile ad hoc network, the mobile nodes use the directional antennas ...

Recent technological advances in the areas of microcontroller architectures, sensors and low power wireless transceivers have made it possible to deploy large wireless sensors. There have been numerous research results in the area of power efficiency in ...

Simulators are needed for testing algorithms of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for large scale scenarios. Deploying real WSN testbed provides a more realistic testing environment, and allows users to get more accurate test results. However, deploying ...

Vehicular area network provides vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure, and vehicle-to-person communications. Its aim is to increase the road safety and transport facility efficiency. It also provides a ubiquitous wireless environment for the end ...

In this paper, we present a methodology and preliminary result of computing the Tate Pairing on a supersingular curve over a prime field in the wireless sensors (MICAz Mote). The aim of this work is to study the feasibility of pairing based protocols ...

This paper develops an architecture for task assignment in wireless sensor networks in support of tactical operations. Our approach is based on a mathematical framework, which, based on multi-attribute utility theory, allows mobile end-users to easily ...

Our goal is to facilitate the development of sensor network applications in an open system, where applications arrive and leave dynamically and execute concurrently. We identify design principles that govern the creation of these systems, such as having ...