Sensor networks - Technologies, protocols and algorithms

Dense collections of smart sensors, actuators, and processors that self-configure to network and process form the basis the new networking and processing paradigm, sensor networks. This tutorial will review the emerging sensor networking technologies, protocols and applications, and look at practical and theoretical issues in designing, deploying, analyzing and evaluating sensor networks. First half of the tutorial will provide an overview of sensor networks, covering hardware platforms and software support. The second half of the tutorial will delve into algorithms for sensor networks, including those for self-organization, power management, topology control, data routing and transport, clustering and data fusion. Examples will be used to expose the scalability and power constraints in these sensor networks. The topic will be of great interest to ISIE attendees; it deals with a novel technology that the computing community can use to create tomorrow's smart systems. Engineers and scientists from various fields will be able to apply this emerging technology within their own fields to overcome limitations associated with present technologies.