Application-based workload model for wireless sensor node computing platforms

T. Delavallée, P. Manet, I. Loiselle, J.-D. Legat, H. Vandierendonck

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Abstract

Wireless sensor node platforms are very diversified and very constrained, particularly in power consumption. When choosing or sizing a platform for a given application, it is necessary to be able to evaluate in an early design stage the impact of those choices. Applied to the computing platform implemented on the sensor node, it requires a good understanding of the workload it must perform. Nevertheless, this workload is highly application-dependent. It depends on the data sampling frequency together with application-specific data processing and management. It is thus necessary to have a model that can represent the workload of applications with various needs and characteristics. In this paper, we propose a workload model for wireless sensor node computing platforms. This model is based on a synthetic application that models the different computational tasks that the computing platform will perform to process sensor data. It allows to model the workload of various different applications by tuning data sampling rate and processing. A case study is performed by modeling different applications and by showing how it can be used for workload characterization.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 Faible Tension Faible Consommation, FTFC 2011
Pages35-38
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01 Jan 2011

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