Measurement and Analysis on Routing Performance in Large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks

PhD Thesis Proposal Defence


Title: "Measurement and Analysis on Routing Performance in Large-scale 
Wireless Sensor Networks"

by

Mr. Tong ZHU


ABSTRACT:

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are developed in an accelerated pace 
during the last few years. Motivated by the need of closely monitoring the 
forest and urban environments and accurately measuring carbon 
sequestration and emission, we launched two long-term large-scale WSNs: 
"GreenOrbs" in 2009 and "CitySee" in 2011, respectively. Through long-term 
measurements and statistical analysis we have a deep understanding on data 
collection behaviors of large-scale WSNs, especially for routing 
performance. This proposal mainly try to answer questions which include 
root causes and impact of network behaviors on routing performances, e.g., 
What causes routing dynamics? What is the impact of routing dynamics? 
When, where, and under what kind of circumstances packet losses occur? Why 
packets are lost?. It also shows findings and insights on routing dynamics 
and packet delivery performances and presents a novel prediction method 
for traffic modeling and energy saving. We try to evaluate the 
performances of proposed methods by trace-driven experiments and verify 
functions in real deployed systems.


Date:                   Thursday, 20 June 2013

Time:                   10:00am - 12:00noon

Venue:                  Room 3301A
                        Lifts 17/18

Committee Members:      Dr. Yunhao Liu (Supervisor)
                        Prof. Cunsheng Ding (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Lei Chen
 			Dr. Ke Yi


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