Conclusions

This concluding chapter presents some closing comments to this book, which presents novel methods for modelling and optimization of parallel and distributed embedded systems. The book illustrates the modeling and optimization of distributed embedded systems using research and experimental evaluation, which focuses on distributed embedded wireless sensor networks (EWSNs). It develops and tests the dynamic optimization methodologies on an embedded senor node's tunable parameter value settings for EWSNs and modeled application metrics, such as lifetime and reliability. The book then discusses various diverse embedded system application domains including cyber-physical systems (CPSs), space, medical, and automotive. It also addresses the proposed architecture for heterogeneous hierarchical multicore embedded wireless sensor networks (MCEWSNs). MCEWSNs are especially beneficial for wireless sensor networking application domains, such as wireless video sensor networks, wireless multimedia sensor networks, satellite-based sensor networks, space shuttle sensor networks, aerial-terrestrial hybrid sensor networks, and fault-tolerant sensor networks.