Part I. Sensor Networks

Chapter 1 Performance of Gossip Algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks; Marco Baldi, Franco Chiaraluce and Elma Zanaj.

Chapter 2 Using a Prioritized Medium Access Control Protocol for Incrementally Obtaining an Interpolation of Sensor Readings; Björn Andersson, Nuno Pereira, Eduardo Tovar and Ricardo Gomes.

Chapter 3 Embedded systems in the POSEIDON MK6 Rebreather; Arne Sieber, Nigel A Jones, Bill Stone, Richard Pyle, Bernhard Koss and Kurt Sjöblom.

Chapter 4 Embedded Data Logging Platform for Research in Diving Physiology; Benjamin Kuch, Remo Bedini, Antonio L'Abbate, Matthias Wagner, Giorgio Buttazzo and Arne Sieber.

Chapter 5 IEEE 1451 Sensor Interfacing and Data Fusion in Embedded Systems; Sergio Saponara, Luca Fanucci and Bruno Neri.

Part II. Network on Chip and Multicore Systems

Chapter 6 Cost-based Deflection Routing for Intelligent NoC Switches; Martin Radetzki and Adán Kohler.

Chapter 7 NOCEXplore; Stefano Gigli and Massimo Conti.

Chapter 8 Coverage-driven Verification of HDL IP cores; Sergio Saponara, Francesco Vitullo, Esa Petri, Luca Fanucci, Marcello Coppola and Riccardo Locatelli.

Chapter 9 A Multiprocessor Platform for Efficient Data Processing in Electronic Musical Instruments; Marco Caldari, Franco Ripa and Massimo Conti.

Chapter 10 A Distributed Hardware Algorithm for Scheduling Dependent Tasks on Multicore Architectures; Lorenzo Di Gregorio.

Part III. Automotive

Chapter 11 Automotive Embedded Systems; Eric Armengaud, Allan Tengg, Mario Driussi, Michael Karner, Christian Steger and Reinhold Weiss.

Chapter 12 An Embedded Datalogger with a Fast Acquisition Rate for in-Vehicle Testing and Monitoring; Gioacchino Fertitta, Antonio Di Stefano, Giuseppe Fiscelli and Costantino G. Giaconia.

Chapter 13 Secure Gateway Interoperability; Álvaro Reina, Jesús Sáez, Natividad Martínez Madrid and Ralf Seepold.

Part IV. Software and System Architecture

Chapter 14 Applying Bayesian Networks for Intelligent Adaptable Printing Systems; Arjen Hommersom, Peter J.F. Lucas, René Waarsing, and Pieter Koopman.

Chapter 15 Applicability of Virtualization to Embedded Systems; Robert Kaiser.

Chapter 16 Distributed Trading Architecture with Sensors Support for a Secure Decision Making; Javier Martínez Fernández, Ralf Seepold and Natividad Martínez Madrid.

Chapter 17 Migrating from a Proprietarfy RTOS to the OSEK Standard Using a Wrapper; Joachim Denil, Serge Demeyer, Paul De Meulenaere, Kurt Maudens, Kris Van Stechelman.

Part V. Power Aware Design

Chapter 18 A Sigma-Delta Controlled Power Converter for Energy Harvesting Applications; Rocco d'Aparo, Simone Orcioni, Massimo Conti.

Chapter 19 Energy Efficient Data Transmission of on-Chip Serial Links; George Kornaros.

Chapter 20 Powersim: power estimation with SystemC; Marco Giammarini, Simone Orcioni, Massimo Conti.

Chapter 21 Power Analysis of Embedded Systems; Giovanni Vece, Massimo Conti.

About the Author:

Massimo Conti is Associate Professor at Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy. His research activity in the field of Microelectronics is devoted to: System Level design methodologies of low power Integrated Circuits, Wireless Sensor Networks, Statistical simulations at device level of IC, Design of mixed-signal IC. He has published more than 130 papers in books, journals or conferences.

Simone Orcioni is Assistant Professor at Università Politecnica delle Marche, teaching courses in analog and digital electronics. He has published a text book and about ninety international papers. He has been working in statistical device modeling and simulation and analog circuit design. His research interests include also RF, non-linear systems and system level circuit design.

Natividad Martínez Madrid is Professor for Internet Technologies at Reutlingen University (Germany). Her main research areas are: Service integration platforms, virtualisation of management environments, model-based design, and safety and emergency services. She worked as project coordinator or principal researcher in several national and international projects. She was member of the technology platforms eNEM and PROMETEO as well as founding member and Steering Board Member of the OSGi-Users Group in Spain. Natividad published more than 60 articles in books, journals or conferences.

Ralf Seepold is Chair for Ubiquitous Computing at the University of Applied Sciences HTWG in Konstanz (Germany). He is working in the domain of mobile service integration, model-driven design, virtualisation of management environments and distributed sensor networks. Ralf has experience as principal researcher or coordinator in several international projects running in the European Framework Programme or under a EUREKA label (ITEA, MEDEA). He is editor of five books, contributor to several book sections, and principal author of more than 50 articles published in international journals and conferences.