On the Applicability of Wireless Sensor Network Systems

PhD Thesis Proposal Defence


Title: "On the Applicability of Wireless Sensor Network Systems"

by

Mr. Mo LI


Abstract:

To enable the pervasive usage of WSN systems in practice, an essential
issue is to improve the applicability of such distributed,
large-scale, and usually resource constraint systems. Based on a real
world project of coal mine monitoring with wireless sensor networks,
this proposal mainly addresses three key problems that emerge from the
real application, i.e., constructing a structure-aware self-adaptive
sensor network framework against the dynamic geological structures,
providing a range-free localization approach for locating the
anisotropic sensor network in the underground tunnels, and introducing
a non-threshold based event detection method that is capable of
detecting sophisticated events. I develop theoretical principles and
practical protocols for implementing above ideas. Through intensive
trace-driven simulations and real-world implementations, I evaluate
those approaches and the results show their effectiveness and
efficiency. The proposed approaches can be further replanted to other
application areas.


Date:     		Friday, 14 November 2008

Time:                   3:00p.m.-5:00p.m.

Venue:                  Room 4472
 			lifts 25-26

Committee Members:      Dr. Yunhao Liu (Supervisor)
 			Dr. Lei Chen (Chairperson)
                         Prof. Lionel Ni
 			Dr. Ke Yi


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