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PAST
MEETING
Wednesday,
October 19th, 2005
Wireless
Sensor Networks:
A New Paradigm for Ubiquitous Sensing
and Information Processing
PRESENTATION
FILE
Presented
by: Professor
Martin Haenggi, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Presented Jointly
with: the Circuits and Systems Society's
Distinguished Lecturer Program
Due to the advances in wireless communications and electronics
in recent
years, the development of networks of low-cost, low-power, and multifunctional
sensors has received increasing attention. These sensors gather
and process data, and communicate with each other over a wireless
channel.
Various hardware platforms have already been designed to test the
many ideas spawned by the research community and to implement applications
in many fields of science and technology.
This presentation gives a general introduction to sensor networks.
We will
discuss their properties, emphasizing the differences to other types
of wireless networks, including WLANs and ad hoc networks. An
overview of existing hardware solutions for sensor networks will
be given,
and we will conclude by discussing future directions and developments.
Martin Haenggi was born in 1969, in Zurich, Switzerland. He received
the
Dipl. Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in 1995. In 1995, he joined
the Signal and Information Processing Laboratory at ETH as a Teaching
and Research Assistant. Between 1996 and 1998, he continued his
studies and earned the Dipl. NDS ETH (post-diploma) degree in information
technology.
In 1999, he completed his Ph.D. thesis on the analysis, design,
and
optimization of cellular neural networks.
After a postdoctoral year at the Electronics Research Laboratory
at the
University of California in Berkeley, he joined the faculty of the
electrical engineering department at the University of Notre Dame
as an assistant
professor in January 2001. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a
professional member of the ACM and the ASEE (American Society for
Engineering Education), and a reviewer for numerous international
journals and conferences. Recently he joined the Editorial Board
of the Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks. For both his M.Sc. and
his Ph.D. theses, he was awarded the ETH medal, and he received
an NSF CAREER award in 2005. His scientific interests include networking,
wireless communications, and dynamical systems, with an emphasis
on ad hoc and sensor networks. His publications include 3 book chapters,
21 journal publications, and 36
conference papers.
Place:
Motorola
Schaumburg, Illinois
Attendance:
Members: 24
Guests: 6
Total: 30
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