Wireless Sensor Networks - Resources

General

Implementation of wireless sensor networks

Useful resources for those who are interested in hardware implementations of Wireless Sensor Networks

TinyOS - a very popular lightweight operating system that runs on sensor network platforms like motes

Calamari: a sensor field localization system - Calamari is a system for providing each node in a sensor field with its own location information using both ultrasound ranging and radio signal strength (RSS).

Cheap, Off-the-Shelf Robots using TinyOS - The CotsBots are inexpensive and modular mobile robots built entirely from commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components. These robots provide a convenient platform on which to investigate algorithms, cooperation, and distributed sensing in large (> 50) robot networks.

Wildfire instrumentation, a project of the Berkeley Civil Engineering project Uses wireless sensors based on TinyOS that organizing themselves into networks for collecting real-time data in wild fire environments. This is important for life safety considerations, and allows predictive analysis of evolving fire behavior.

Habitat Monitoring on Great Duck Island Purpose to develop a habitat monitoring kit that enables researchers worldwide to engage in non-intrusive, non-disruptive monitoring of sensitive wildlife and habitats.

TinyDB - a query processing system for extracting information from a network of TinyOS sensors.

Integrated Wireless Sensor Networks for the Control of the Indoor Environment In Buildings - The project will produce multi-modal wireless sensing and communication technology suitable for buildings as well as many other applications such as airflow measurement technology, multiple sensor control of underflow air distribution (UFAD) and multi sensor, single-actuator control of temperature.

TOSSIM - Simulating TinyOS Networks.

Research Groups and Their Research

PicoRadio research on RF circuit design, networking, positioning, low voltage digital design, antenna design, and low power analog design.

Embedded Collaborative Computing Area This group's research spans a wide range of topics, from networked embedded sensing and control systems, to applications including vehicle tracking, environmental monitoring and machine diagnosis.

Center for Embedded Networked - The researchers in CENS are investigating fundamental properties of Embedded Networked Systems, developing new enabling technologies, and exploring novel scientific and educational applications.

UVM's Wireless Ad-hoc Sensor Network Research Group - The members of this group are interested in wide range of technologies applicable to ad-hoc wireless sensor networks (WSN) and their applications. Most projects deal with architectures and algorithms to characterize and improve the performance of these systems.

Vanderbilt: Pattern-Oriented Composition and Synthesis of Middleware Services for NEST

Wireless Sensor Networks Research Western Michigan University various readings, publications and projects concerning Wireless Sensor Networks

Real-Time & Embedded Computing Laboratory - studies a wide range of issues in all aspects of real-time computing and embedded systems.

Spatiotemporal Protocols and Analyses for Wireless Sensor Networks

Coordinated Power Management under Sensing and Communication Constraints in Sensor Networks research concerning integrated coverage and connectivity configuration, coverage maintenance based on realistic sensing model and the impact of coverage on greedy geographic algorithms.

Agilla: Mobile Agent Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks research on using sensor networks where applications consist of special programs called mobile agents that can migrate their code and state from one node to another as they execute.

APS - Ad-hoc Positioning System

Security for Ad hoc Networks and Sensor Networks This page contains a list of papers on security ad hoc networks and Sensor networks.

Intel Sensor Networks

Armstrong Project wireless sensor and ad hoc networks research on congestion control, reliable transport, and dynamic power control.

CodeBlue Wireless Sensor Networks for Medical Care

An Ecological In Situ Sensor Resource:

Networking Wireless Sensors Lab - Specializing in wireless sensor network protocols for specific sensors like biomedical sensors, environmental sensors, ...

Eyes energy efficient sensor networks

Routing Protocols for Sensor Networks research on Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols for Wireless Microsensor Networks and Adaptive Protocols for Information Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks

Manatee project study on Bluetooth based data dissemination and monitoring applications

Mantis project research in bringing together aspects of operating systems, networking and embedded systems design for WSNs

MoteTrack A robust, decentralized approach to RF-based location tracking

Robomote networks of movable sensors

SensoNet Project - Protocols for Sensor Networks

SCADDS -Scalable coordination architectures for deeply distributed and dynamic systems

Papers

A Wireless Sensor Network Bibliography

Autonomous Networks Research Group

Wireless Sensor Networks papers by Chenyang Lu

Wireless Sensor Networks Research Western Michigan University

Scalable Location Aware Monitoring - Hari Balakrishnan, Erik Demaine, Mike Stonebraker, Seth Teller, November 2001

Building Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks with LowLevel Naming John Heide, Fabio Silva, Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Ramesh Govindan, Deborah Estrin and Deepak Ganesan, 2001

The Development of a Wireless Modular Health Monitoring System for Civil Structures - Jerome P. Lynch, Kincho H. Law, Erik G. Straser,

Anne S. Kiremidjian and Tom W. Kenny, November 2000

Sensing Structural Integrity

Maximum Lifetime Data Gathering and Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks -Konstantinos Kalpakis, Koustuv Dasgupta, and Parag Namjoshi, August 2002

Middleware Challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks - Kay Romer, Oliver Kasten and Friedemann Mattern, Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Volume 6, Number 2

Robust Range Estimation Using Acoustic and Multimodal Sensing - Lewis Girod and Deborah Estrin

SPINS: Security Protocols for Sensor Networks - Adrian Perrig, Robert Szewczyk, Victor Wen, David Culler and J. D. Tygar, 2001

Query Processing for Sensor Networks - Yong Yao and Johannes Gehrke, 2003