Overview
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Wireless Sensor Networks is an area of research that has been evolving in many dimensions over the last decade. There are applications in patient care, precision agriculture, building monitoring and battlefield monitoring. However there still remains the problem of optimised and reliable collection of data in a timely manner. Analytical tools such as MATLAB help provide a quick insight into new protocols, but fail to provide realistic results. This project proposes the development of a Wireless Sensor Network Emulator.
Hypothesis/Aims
There are several wireless sensor network simulators and analytic tools available. But none of the systems emulate real networks. The aim of this project is to produce a virtualised emulation of wireless sensor networks that can be used to measure real time behaviours of sensor networks.
Approaches
Our approach will be to build on top of the Common Open Research Emulator (CORE) a module that allows the virtual emulation of wireless sensors. By using the CORE tool we can create virtualized network stacks and connect the sensor network to real networks.
References
- J. Ahrenholz, C. Danilov, T. R. Henderson, and J. H. Kim, 'CORE: A Real-Time Network Emulator', in Military Communications Conference, 2008. IEEE, Nov 2008.
- Titzer, B. L., Lee, D. K., and Palsberg, J. 2005. Avrora: scalable sensor network simulation with precise timing. In Proceedings of the 4th international Symposium on information Processing in Sensor Networks (Los Angeles, California, April 24 - 27, 2005). Information Processing In Sensor Networks. IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, 67.
- Study level
- Honours
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
- Please contact the supervisor.
Dr Ernest Foo
