Distributed Emulator for a Pedestrian Tracking System Using Active Tags

Author

Nakata, Junya ; Beuran, Razvan ; Kawakami, Tetsuya ; Chinen, Ken-ichi ; Tan, Yasuo ; Shinoda, Yoichi

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Nomi

fYear

2008

fDate

Sept. 29 2008-Oct. 4 2008

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

224

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a distributed emulator for a pedestrian tracking system using active tags that is currently being developed by the authors. The emulator works on StarBED which is a network testbed consisting of hundreds of PCs connected to each other by Ethernet. The three major components of the emulator (the processor emulator of the active tag micro-controller, RUNE, and QOMET) are all implemented on StarBED. We present the structure of the emulator, how it functions and the results from the emulation of the pedestrian tracking system. The system met the requirements to create a flexible experimental platform to support the development of the pedestrian tracking system. We confirmed the results obtained by running tests corresponding to a real-world experiment.

Keywords

identification technology; local area networks; microcontrollers; tracking; traffic engineering computing; Ethernet; QOMET; RUNE; StarBED; active tag microcontroller; active tags; distributed emulator; network testbed; pedestrian tracking system; processor emulator; Circuit simulation; Communications technology; Emulation; Interference; Microprogramming; Operating systems; Personal communication networks; Testing; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks; Active Tag; Distributed Emulator; Network Emulation; Pedestrian Tracking; Processor Emulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies, 2008. UBICOMM '08. The Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Valencia

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3367-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3367-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UBICOMM.2008.77

Filename

4641339