SystemC Platform Modeling for Behavioral Simulation and Performance Estimation of Embedded Systems

Posadas, Héctor; Castillo, J.; Quijano, David; Fernández, Víctor Manuel; Villar, Eugenio; Martinez, Marcos

doi:10.4018/978-1-60566-750-8.ch009

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“…The simulation methodology used in this work is based on the native simulation approach [53] depicted in Figure 3. The simulator presented in [53,54] (SCoPE) extends SystemC capabilities to perform HW/SW co-simulation.…”

Section: Secure Wsn Design Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Simulation of Attacks for Security in Wireless Sensor Network

Diaz

Sánchez

2016

Sensors

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The increasing complexity and low-power constraints of current Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) require efficient methodologies for network simulation and embedded software performance analysis of nodes. In addition, security is also a very important feature that has to be addressed in most WSNs, since they may work with sensitive data and operate in hostile unattended environments. In this paper, a methodology for security analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks is presented. The methodology allows designing attack-aware embedded software/firmware or attack countermeasures to provide security in WSNs. The proposed methodology includes attacker modeling and attack simulation with performance analysis (node’s software execution time and power consumption estimation). After an analysis of different WSN attack types, an attacker model is proposed. This model defines three different types of attackers that can emulate most WSN attacks. In addition, this paper presents a virtual platform that is able to model the node hardware, embedded software and basic wireless channel features. This virtual simulation analyzes the embedded software behavior and node power consumption while it takes into account the network deployment and topology. Additionally, this simulator integrates the previously mentioned attacker model. Thus, the impact of attacks on power consumption and software behavior/execution-time can be analyzed. This provides developers with essential information about the effects that one or multiple attacks could have on the network, helping them to develop more secure WSN systems. This WSN attack simulator is an essential element of the attack-aware embedded software development methodology that is also introduced in this work.

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Section: Secure Wsn Design Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The simulator presented in [53,54] (SCoPE) extends SystemC capabilities to perform HW/SW co-simulation. SCoPE is used as a starting point of this work that extends this simulator with new capabilities such as WSN and attack simulation.…”

Section: Secure Wsn Design Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Simulation of Attacks for Security in Wireless Sensor Network

Diaz

Sánchez

2016

Sensors

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“…These nodes can be either symmetric or Heterogeneous Multi-Processing architectures and the complete system can has any topology of memory spaces. As it can be observed in [10], the framework allows obtaining different estimations for the number of instructions executed, the number of cache hits and misses, the energy of the core, the bus accesses, the running time, the use of the cpu… These measures are obtained independently for each node.…”

Section: A Hw/sw Co-simulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The implementation of the proposed work is done over the framework described in [10]. This tool is a System-C framework that supports platform modeling for behavioral simulation and performance estimation of embedded systems.…”

Section: A Hw/sw Co-simulationmentioning

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Virtual Platform for Wireless Sensor Networks

Diaz

Diego

Sánchez

2012

2012 15th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design

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In this paper is presented a complete, fast and accurate Wireless Sensor Network simulation framework. With an emerging market in Wireless Sensor Network technology, where competition is getting increasingly stiffer, it is important to shorten the time-to-market if you want to be competitive. This is the main reason why it is proposed a complete simulation framework with new features other tools do not provide. Thanks to this simulation framework, developers can simulate a complete wireless network with the definition of a hardware platform and an application for each node. Moreover, this simulator framework allows an RTOS to be included in each node. The simulator framework provides performance and power consumption estimations that take into account the impact of the different decisions and alternatives chosen during application and hardware platform design and development.

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The MULTICUBE Design Flow

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Fornaciari

Palermo

et al. 2011

Multi-Objective Design Space Exploration of Multiprocessor SoC Architectures

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This chapter introduces the design-flow of the MULTICUBE project whose main goal is the definition of an automatic multi-objective Design Space Exploration (DSE) framework to be used to tune the parameters of System-on-Chip architectures by taking into account the target set of metrics (e.g. energy, latency, throughput, etc.). One of the important goals of the automatic multi-objective DSE framework is to find design trade-offs that best meet system constraints and cost criteria which are indeed strongly dependent on the target application. A set of heuristic optimisation algorithms have been defined to reduce the overall optimization time by identifying an approximated Pareto set of parameter configurations with respect to a set of selected figures of merit. Once the approximated Pareto set is built, the designer can quickly apply decision criteria to select the best configuration satisfying the constraints. The DSE flow is based on the interaction of two frameworks to be used at design time: the Design Space Exploration Framework, a set of opensource and proprietary architectural exploration tools, and the Power/Performance Estimation Framework, a set of modeling and simulation tools (open-source and proprietary) operating at several levels of abstraction. The DSE flow also includes the specification of an XML integration interface to connect the exploration and estimation frameworks and a Run-time Resource Manager exploiting, at run-time, the best software configuration alternatives derived at design-time to optimize the usage of system resources.

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SystemC Platform Modeling for Behavioral Simulation and Performance Estimation of Embedded Systems

Cited by 12 publications

References 21 publications

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Simulation of Attacks for Security in Wireless Sensor Network

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