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The Sixth IASTED International Multi-Conference
on
WIRELESS AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
~ WOC-2006 ~
July 3-5, 2006
Banff,
Alberta, Canada
Sensor
Networks: Hype of Reality?
Prof.
Stephan Olariu
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
Abstract
The advent of nano-technology has made it technologically
feasible and economically viable to develop low-power devices
that integrate general-purpose computing with multi-purpose
sensing and wireless communications capabilities. It is
expected that these small devices, referred to as sensor
nodes, will be mass-produced and deployed, making their
production costs negligible. Individual sensor nodes have
a small, non-renewable power supply and, once deployed,
must work unattended. For most applications we envision
a massive deployment of sensor nodes, perhaps in the hundreds
or even thousands. Aggregating sensor nodes into sophisticated
computational and communication infrastructures, called
wireless sensor networks (WSN, for short), will have a significant
impact on a wide array of applications ranging from military,
to scientific, to industrial, to health-care, to domestic,
establishing ubiquitous wireless sensor networks that will
pervade society redefining the way in which we live and
work.
Background Knowledge Expected of Participants
The tutorial is intended for a broad audience consisting
of undergraduate and graduate students, engineers working
in networks, researchers in computer science, computer engineering,
electrical engineering, as well as administrators and developers
in telecommunication industry. The tutorial is directed
to both people in the area, who are interested in some aspect
of wireless networking that is complementary to their activity,
and people that want to approach and get a general view
of this new and booming area.
Biography
of Speaker
Professor Stephan Olariu is a tenured full
professor in Computer Science at Old Dominion University,
Norfolk, Virginia. He is a world-renowned technologist in
the areas of parallel and distributed systems, parallel
and distributed architectures and networks. He has been
invited to and has visited more than 120 universities and
research institutes around the world lecturing on topics
ranging from wireless networks and mobile computing, to
biology-inspired algorithms and applications, to telemedicine,
to wireless location systems, and demining. Professor Olariu
is the Director of the Sensor Networks Research Group at
Old Dominion University.
Professor Olariu
earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at McGill University
in Montreal, Canada. He has coauthored two books: Solutions
to Parallel and Distributed Computing Problems: Lessons
from Biological Sciences (with A. Zomaya and F. Ercal),
Wiley and Sons, New York, 2000, ISBN 0471353523, Parallel
Computation in Image Processing (with S. Tanimoto), Cambridge
University Press, to appear 2006, Wireless Sensor Networks
and Applications, Wiley and Sons, New York, 20046 with four
more books in preparation. In addition, he has published
200+ journal articles and 100+ conference articles.
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