Network coding on heterogeneous multi-core processors for wireless sensor networks

Deokho Kim; Karam Park; Won W Ro

doi:10.3390/s110807908

Network coding on heterogeneous multi-core processors for wireless sensor networks

Sensors (Basel). 2011;11(8):7908-33. doi: 10.3390/s110807908. Epub 2011 Aug 11.

Authors

Deokho Kim¹, Karam Park, Won W Ro

Affiliation

¹ The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea. nautes87@yonsei.ac.kr

Abstract

While network coding is well known for its efficiency and usefulness in wireless sensor networks, the excessive costs associated with decoding computation and complexity still hinder its adoption into practical use. On the other hand, high-performance microprocessors with heterogeneous multi-cores would be used as processing nodes of the wireless sensor networks in the near future. To this end, this paper introduces an efficient network coding algorithm developed for the heterogenous multi-core processors. The proposed idea is fully tested on one of the currently available heterogeneous multi-core processors referred to as the Cell Broadband Engine.

Keywords: heterogeneous multi-core processors; network coding; parallel algorithms; sensor nodes.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Biosensing Techniques / methods*
Computer Communication Networks
Computer Systems
Computers
Equipment Design
Microcomputers*
Models, Statistical
Telecommunications
Time Factors