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I2 Lab Distinguished Seminar Series
General Lecture
A Virtual Infrastructure for Wireless Sensor Networks

Dr. Stephan Olario
Thursday, February 8, 2007
4:00PM ~ 5:00PM ENGR3-101

Abstract


Overlaying a virtual infrastructure over a physical network is a time-honored strategy for conquering scale. There are, essentially, two approaches to this exercise. The first is to design the virtual infrastructure in support of a specific protocol. However, more often than not, the resulting infrastructure is not useful for other purposes. The alternate approach is to design a general-purpose virtual infrastructure with no particular protocol in mind. The challenge, of course, is to design the virtual infrastructure in such a way that it can be leveraged by a multitude of different protocols.

This talk introduces a simple and natural general-purpose virtual infrastructure for wireless sensor networks consisting of a massive deployment of anonymous sensors. We also show that this infrastructure can be leveraged for efficient protocol design.

Short Bio


Prof. Olariu is a world-renowned technologist in the areas of wireless networks, mobile multimedia systems, parallel and distributed systems, parallel and distributed architectures and networks. He was invited and 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 security. He is the Director of the Sensor Networks Research Group at Old Dominion University .

He has coauthored/edited four books, with four more books in preparation. He has also published 200+ articles in archival journals and 200+ papers in conference proceedings. Prof. Olariu is an Associate Editor of Networks and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and serves on the editorial board of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Journal of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, and Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems.
http://www.cs.odu.edu/~olariu/

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