Informatisches Kolloquium
Wintersemester 2010/2011

Montag, 17. Januar 2011
um 17 Uhr c.t.
Vogt-Kölln-Straße 30
Konrad-Zuse-Hörsaal
Gebäude B

Prof. Dr. Sudip Misra
currently Humboldt Research Fellow, TKRN, FB Informatik,
University of Hamburg
permanent faculty position, School of Information Technology,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Wireless Sensor Networks: Opportunities and Research Challenges

Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements. The last few years have experienced a steep growth in research in the area of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In WSNs, communication takes place with the help of spatially distributed autonomous sensor nodes equipped to sense specific information. WSNs, particularly the ones that have gained much popularity in the recent years, are typically ad hoc in nature and they inherit many characteristics/features of wireless ad hoc networks such as the ability for infrastructure-less setup, minimal or no reliance on network planning and the ability of the nodes to self-organize and self-configure without the involvement of a centralized network manager, router, access point, or a switch. These features help to setup WSNs fast in situations where there is no existing network setup or in times when setting up a fixed infrastructure network is considered infeasible, for example, in times of emergency or during relief operations. Even though sensor networks have emerged to be attractive and they hold great promises for our future, there are several research challenges that need to be addressed in order for them to see them ubiquitous in everyday life. The talk will provide comprehensive as well as comprehensible concepts in sensor networks. A wide range of issues will be discussed some of which are classical and are relatively well known and a number of others that are still in the research works. Open challenges in this area will also be presented during the talk. The speaker will also present some of his classic works on WSNs.

Kontakt

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