System architecture directions for networked sensors
ASPLOS IX Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Geography-informed energy conservation for Ad Hoc routing
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Full-chip sub-threshold leakage power prediction model for sub-0.18 μm CMOS
Proceedings of the 2002 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
Wireless sensor networks for habitat monitoring
WSNA '02 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless sensor networks and applications
Design Challenges of Technology Scaling
IEEE Micro
System architecture for wireless sensor networks
System architecture for wireless sensor networks
Statistical analysis of subthreshold leakage current for VLSI circuits
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
An ultra low-power processor for sensor networks
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Versatile low power media access for wireless sensor networks
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Simulating the power consumption of large-scale sensor network applications
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Hardware design experiences in ZebraNet
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Sensor Networks for Emergency Response: Challenges and Opportunities
IEEE Pervasive Computing
A study of low level vibrations as a power source for wireless sensor nodes
Computer Communications
Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Compilers, architectures and synthesis for embedded systems
CASES '06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Compilers, architecture and synthesis for embedded systems
Proceedings of the 4th workshop on Embedded networked sensors
Efficient construction of network topology to conserve energy in wireless ad hoc networks
Computer Communications
Minimal placement of bank selection instructions for partitioned memory architectures
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
Load sensitive topology control: Towards minimum energy consumption in dense ad hoc sensor networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A ZigBee-based sensor node for tracking people's locations
CASEMANS '08 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international conference on Context-awareness for self-managing systems
Applying passive RFID system to wireless headphones for extreme low power consumption
Proceedings of the 45th annual Design Automation Conference
Test strategies for low power devices
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
A knowledge-oriented meta-framework for integrating sensor network infrastructures
Computers & Geosciences
Joint range assignment and routing to conserve energy in wireless ad hoc networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
The design of a bloom filter hardware accelerator for ultra low power systems
Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE international symposium on Low power electronics and design
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IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An accelerator-based wireless sensor network processor in 130nm CMOS
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Battery allocation for wireless sensor network lifetime maximization under cost constraints
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
Low-power TinyOS tuned processor platform for wireless sensor network motes
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
Network-adaptive management of computation energy in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Analysis of power-aware buffering schemes in wireless sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
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Proceedings of the 1st International Conference and Exhibition on Computing for Geospatial Research & Application
Quanto: tracking energy in networked embedded systems
OSDI'08 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
Human++: wireless autonomous sensor technology for body area networks
Proceedings of the 16th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
System energy minimization via joint optimization of the DC-DC converter and the core
Proceedings of the 17th IEEE/ACM international symposium on Low-power electronics and design
Power-Aware processors for wireless sensor networks
ISCIS'06 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Computer and Information Sciences
ICESS'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Embedded Software and Systems
LATONA: an advanced server architecture for ubiquitous sensor network
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Reducing energy dissipation of wireless sensor processors using silent-store-filtering motecache
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Embedded intelligence: enabling in-situ power management for wireless sensor networks
EuroSSC'06 Proceedings of the First European conference on Smart Sensing and Context
TinyVM: an energy-efficient execution infrastructure for sensor networks
Software—Practice & Experience
Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
L24: Parallelism, performance, energy efficiency, and cost trade-offs in future sensor platforms
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
TCTM: an evaluation framework for architecture design on wireless sensor networks
International Journal of Sensor Networks
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Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in embedded wireless sensor networks with applications ranging from habitat monitoring to medical applications. Wireless sensor networks have several important attributes that require special attention to device design. These include the need for inexpensive, long-lasting, highly reliable devices coupled with very low performance requirements. Ultimately, the "holy grail" of this design space is a truly untethered device that operates off of energy scavenged from the ambient environment. In this paper, we describe an application-driven approach to the architectural design and implementation of a wireless sensor device that recognizes the event-driven nature of many sensor-network workloads. We have developed a full-system simulator for our sensor node design to verify and explore our architecture. Our simulation results suggest one to two orders of magnitude reduction in power dissipation over existing commodity-based systems for an important class of sensor network applications. We are currently in the implementation stage of design, and plan to tape out the first version of our system within the next year.