Smart Surveillance: Robust Sensor Networks vs Intelligent Targets

Speaker:	Professor Min-You WU
		Shanghai Jiaotong University

Title:		Smart Surveillance: Robust Sensor Networks vs
		Intelligent Targets

Date:		Monday, 27 March 2006

Time:		2:00pm - 3:00pm

Venue:		Room 4505 (via lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST

ABSTRACT:

One of the most important tasks in the anti-terrorism and military
applications is field surveillance and target tracking. Also, surveillance
of community, office building, hospitals, banks, as well as other
important locations demands high detection probability against potential
intruders. Most existing works in the sensor network research assume that
targets are non-intelligent, that is, a target is unaware of existence of
the sensor network. In real life, however, many intruders are smart. These
intelligent targets may try to hide themselves, choose a better moving
path, or intrude the sensor network.

In this talk, we will discuss the characteristics of an intelligent
target, understand its behaviors, and then investigate the methodology to
confront the attack from the intelligent target. In particular, we will
describe how an intelligent target with limited detection range finds the
best path to its destination. We will discuss also how to build a robust
sensor network for surveillance of intelligent targets. Methodologies to
construct sensor networks that are immune from attacks of an intelligent
target and able to intelligently detect the target will be presented:

(1) hiding techniques for sensor networks in the initialization phase,
    surveillance phase, and reporting phase;
(2) detection techniques that are designed specifically for intelligent
    targets; and
(3) self-healing techniques that repair the damage.



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Biography:

Min-You Wu is an IBM Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He serves as the Chief
Scientist at Grid Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is a
research professor of the University of New Mexico, USA. His research
interests include grid computing, wireless networks, sensor networks,
overlay networks, multimedia networking, parallel and distributed systems,
and compilers for parallel computers. He has published over 130 journal
and conference papers in the above areas. His research has been supported
by National Science Foundation, DoD, DoE, DARPA, China 863, and National
Science Foundation of China.  He is senior member of IEEE.