ch. 1. Evolution of digital signal processing architecture at Texas instruments / Gene A. Frantz -- ch. 2. Co-synthesis of real-time embedded systems / Gul N. Khan -- ch. 3. Methods for non-intrusive dynamic application profiling and soft error detection / Roman Lysecky and Karthik Shankar -- ch. 4. Embedded systems code optimization and power consumption / Mostafa E.A. Ibrahim and Markus Rupp -- ch. 5. Flexible and scalable power management framework for RTOS-based embedded systems / Muhamed Fauzi, Thambipillai Srikanthan, and Siew-Kei Lam -- ch. 6. Range of benchmarks required to analyze embedded processors and systems / Jeff Caldwell, Chris Fournier, Shay Gal-On, Markus Levy, and Alexander Mintz -- ch. 7. Networking embedded systems : an exciting future / Roberto Saracco -- ch 8. OCTOPUS : on-demand communication topology updating strategy for mobile sensor networks / Hicham Hatime, Kamesh Namuduri, and John Watkins -- ch. 9. Network structure for delay-aware applications in wireless sensor networks / Chi-Tsun Cheng, Chi K. Tse, and Francis C.M. Lau -- ch. 10. Game-theoretic models for camera selection in video network / Yiming Li and Bir Bhanu -- ch. 11. Cluster-based networking for MANETs using self-organization / J. Guadalupe Olascuaga-Cabrera, Ernesto Lopez-Mellado, Andres Mendez-Vazquez, and Felix Ramos-Corchado -- ch. 12. Ensemble-based approach for targeting mobile sensor networks : algorithm and sensitivity analysis / Han-Lim Choi and Jonathan P. How.