Middleware design optimization of wireless protocols based on the exploitation of dynamic input patterns

  • Authors:
  • Stylianos Mamagkakis;Dimitrios Soudris;Francky Catthoor

  • Affiliations:
  • IMEC vzw., Heverlee, Belgium;VLSI Center-Democritus Uni., Greece;IMEC vzw., Heverlee, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Today, wireless networks are moving big amounts of data between mobile devices, which have to work in an ubiquitous computing environment, which perpetually changes at run-time (i.e., nodes log on and off, varied user activity, etc.). These changes introduce problems that can not be fully analyzed at design-time and require dynamic (runtime) solutions. These solutions are implemented with the use of run-time resource management at the middleware level for a wide variety of embedded systems. In this paper, we motivate and propose the characterization of the dynamic inputs of wireless protocols (e.g., input to the IEEE 802.11b protocol coming from IPv4 data fragmentation). Thus, through statistical analysis we derive patterns that will guide our optimization process of the middleware for run-time resource management design. We assess the effectiveness of our approach with inputs of 18 real life case studies of wireless networks. Finally, we show up to 81.97% increase in the performance of the proposed design solution compared to the state-of-the-art solutions, without compromising memory footprint or energy consumption.