News

2010 Master and PhD Thesis Award Results

The winners of the 2010 CONET Master and PhD Thesis Competition have been awarded during the EWSN 2010 conference.


Newsletter issue #7

2010's first newsletter contains a guest column on "Sensing China and SIMIT", the member profile of UCL and an article on "Coffee: A Small and Efficient File System for Sensor Networks".


Call for Papers: CONET 2010

Co-located with CPS Week 2010, CONET organizes the First International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects. Submission deadline is March 1st, 2010.


COTS-based Architecture for QoS in Large-Scale Distributed Embedded Systems

Partners involved

ISEP-IPP, NUIG, TUB, UCL, UNIPI

Objectives

  • Achieving Quality-of-Service in large-scale distributed embedded systems using standard communication protocols and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware platforms and operating systems.

Expected results

  • Fault-tolerance mechanisms for overcoming ZigBee routers failure or link quality degradation, considering temporal and energy efficiency.
  • Mobility management mechanisms in Zigbee-based WSNs.
  • Architecture of the gateway between "backbone" and sensor networks.
  • Dynamic QoS management using mobile cooperating Gateways.
  • Adapt or propose new security mechanism for ZigBee at a global (multi-tiered) level.