A Survey of Research Issues in the Mobile Sensor Networks

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "A Survey of Research Issues in the Mobile Sensor Networks"

Mr. Yik KEUNG


Abstract:

Mobile sensor networks (MSNs) have been widely studied in
recent years and are expected to be applied in a variety of
applications such as battlefield surveillance, event detections,
hostile environment monitoring, and wild animal tracking. In this
report, we list out the design factors of traditional wireless
sensor networks, and show the additional sensor mobility makes an
impact for the existing schemes and protocol in wireless sensor
network. We mainly focus on the challenges of localization and
information collection in mobile sensor networks. Based on the
natural of sensor mobility, mobile sensor can be divided into
controllable and uncontrollable. The uncontrollable mobile sensor
bring uncertainties in terms of localization and information
collection. However, on the order hand, the controllable mobility
can assist the sensor network in term of localization and
information collection, while the energy consumption of movement and
data transmission should be considered as the tradeoff. This report
shows the mobile sensor network provides great opportunities for us
to study the challenging issues related to localization and
information collection.


Date:     		Thursday, 27 November 2008

Time: 			10:30a.m.-12:30p.m.

Venue: 			Room 4480
 			lifts 25-26

Committee Members:      Dr. Bo Li (Supervisor)
 			Dr. Qian Zhang (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Lei Chen
 			Prof. Lionel Ni


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