System Architecture and Networking

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

 

 

 

 

 

OMECA: Optimization of Modular Embedded Computer-vision Architectures

 

 

 

Overview

Modern cameras imitate interaction between human eyes and brain. They can process and transmit visionary patterns timely. Timely transmission of these patterns can be used to detect events of interest automatically.

The fundamental research objective of OMECA project is to investigate the feasibility of a camera platform to process and transmit patterns. This involves two resources, viz, camera hardware and network. Hence this objective is sought by establishing the predictability of camera hardware architecture and network. A feasible algorithm can interleave processing and transmission so as to generate an optimal schedule to obtain functional requirement of timeliness. To this end, the System Architecture and Networking (SAN) group at TU/e contributes to this project by modeling reliability, predictability and performance of these two resources; thus offering an integrated system architecture. SAN is part of an OMECA consortium which consists of three SMEs (Prodrive, Gatsometer, and Cyclomedia), and two Universities (LIACS and TU/e).

 

People

·         Prof. Dr. J.J. Lukkien (Project Leader)

·         W. Aslam (PhD student)

 

SAN contributions

a.      Performance framework

·         Development of a performance framework for resource sharing and reservations on wireless broadcast networks. An IEEE 802.11e controlled wireless channel is used to asses and then model the behavior of multiple competing streams with different QoS requirements. The assessment was done by scheduling these streams and deriving their QoS properties, which are: frequency of access, share, delay and reliability;

·         The framework allows a tradeoff analysis between different MAC parameters and QoS properties.

 

b.      Software tools

·         An analytical model solver: XcL

·         A simulator: GRADE

 

c.       Publications

·         W. Aslam and J. J. Lukkien, “Delay constrained resource allocation for wireless home networks,” in 2012 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2012), Las Vegas, USA, Jan. 2012, pp. 98–99.

·         W. Aslam and J. J. Lukkien, “Scavenging the channel share: Performance on sensing and allocation,” in First Taibah University International Conference on Computing and Information Technology (ICCIT 2012), Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia, Mar. 2012.

·         Aslam, W.; Lukkien, J.J.; , "Streaming-aware channel utilization improvement for wireless home networks," Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.58, no.1, pp.69-77, February 2012 doi: 10.1109/TCE.2012.6170057

 

Contact

SAN Secretary

A. Gouma
Phone: +31 (0)40 2478309 
Fax: +31 (0)40 2478345