Using Reconfigurable Hardware Devices in WSNs for Reducing the Energy Consumption of Routing and Security Tasks

Towards Efficient Wireless Video Sensor Networks: A Survey of Existing Node Architectures and Proposal for A Flexi-WVSNP Design

“…Radio communication and the image acquisition components are other major throughput limiting factors in a design. Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have advantages for highly specialized tasks such as routing, Forward Error Correction (FEC), Cryptography and Digital Rights Management (DRM) algorithms [8], [9]. Popular use of hardware acceleration modules on recent multimedia SoCs have eroded this advantage.…”