Einladung zum Vortrag im Kolloquium Technische Kybernetik

 Sensor Networks – Challenges and Approaches

 Prof. Kurt Rothermel
Institut für Parallele und Verteilte Systeme
Universität Stuttgart

    Zeit: Dienstag 01.07. 2008 · 16:00 Uhr
    Ort: IST-Seminarraum 3.241 · Pfaffenwaldring 9 · Campus Stuttgart-Vaihingen

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks have been an active topic of research in academia for a number of years. Recently, they are also increasingly gaining importance in the industrial sector since the technology is maturing. A sensor network is usually a collection of small-scale computing devices equipped with low-end processing hardware, a radio transceiver, and varying sensors. These nodes spontaneously establish a communication network that allows sending sensor data to some data sink (e.g. a computer at the edge of the network).

In first part of this talk, we will give an overview of the current state in sensor network technology and characterize its challenges from a software perspective. Then, in the second part, we will discuss how sensors and sensor networks can be integrated into global networks, such as the Internet, resulting into large-scale sensor grids.  One interesting application scenario for those sensor grids are simulation systems that continuously gather real-life data and feed them into the simulation process.

Biographical Information

Kurt Rothermel received his doctoral degree in Computer Science from University of Stuttgart in 1985. From 1986 to 1987 he was “Post-Doctoral Fellow” at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, U.S.A. and then joined IBM’s European Networking Center in Heidelberg. Since 1990 he is a Professor for Computer Science at University of Stuttgart. Currently, he is Director of Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems and head of Centre of Excellence (SFB) Nexus, conducting research in the area of mobile context-aware systems. His research interests are in the field on distributed systems, computer networks, mobile systems, sensor networks, and ubiquitous computing, where he contributed more than 150 publications.