Title : Modeling and simulation of program execution on large - scale wireless sensor networks Type of assignment : Internship

Type of assignment: Internship/MSc Project Contact: Zoltan Papp ([email protected]) or Joris Sijs ([email protected]) Description Designing large-scale sensor networks (or large-scale distributed signal processing systems in general) is an extremely demanding task because complex balance should be maintained among many (frequently contradicting) requirements and constraints. The design process should be supported by a proper set of tools, which – using various models (e.g. functional, power consumption, failure, costs, etc.) – simulates the operation of the network and quantitatively characterizes the performance of the different design alternatives and thus help the designer to make the proper design choices. Many characteristics of the complete system are the result of the interactions among the different aspects of the design, e.g. the assignment of functionalities (program segments) to various processing units, the impact of communication topology on the execution of particular algorithms, etc.), Due to the large-scale of the system it is not feasible to execute the programs "instruction by instruction". Rather models of the programs should be used, which reflect the relevant features of the program but do not need instruction level execution.