Dynamic Reconfigurable Task Schedule Support towards a Reflective Middleware for Sensor Network

Abstract

Sensor networks are being applied in several emerging sophisticated applications due to the use of powerful and high-quality sensor nodes, such as radars and visible light cameras. However, these nodes need additional features to optimally benefit from heterogeneous modern computing platforms. Therefore, reconfigurable computing is a potential paradigm for those scenarios as it can provide flexibility to explore the computational resources on that kind of high performance computing system. This paper presents a reconfigurable sensor node allocation support, based on application requirements, provided by a middleware focused on heterogeneous sensor networks. In order to address this concern, an aspect-orientation paradigm and intelligent agents approach is proposed followed by an UAV case study.