Seminario Interdipartimentale di Algoritmica  

Monday, June 5, 2006, 12:00 noon Abstract
Mobility in Sensor Networks
Tom La Porta, Penn State University

DI - Department of Computer Science
Seminar Room, third floor

Abstract:

Deployment of large scale sensor networks is getting closer to reality.  It is now clear that it is highly desirable to have mobile sensors in support of many applications.  Mobility of sensor nodes can assist in solving many problems in sensor networks (coverage, recovery from failure), but introduces or complicates many others (data dissemination, security).  In this talk I will provide a background on mobile sensor networks and give an overview of our research, including using mobility for improving coverage and fault recovery.  I will also discuss our work on providing efficient support for data dissemination and security in a mobile sensor environment.