CRA/CREU'04 at Santa Clara University

Project: Overlay Networks for Networks of Mobile Sensors

Advisor:

Prof. Silvia Figueira

Students:

Gloria Chang Gloria Chang has livey in Sunnyvale, CA and played with computers all her life. She is currently a senior in the School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. She takes interest in all the new gadgets/technology that appear and is a geek at heart. Gloria loves learning about everything in the area of Networks and hopes to work in that field in the future.
Tina Chhabra
Tina Chhabra currently lives in San Jose and is a senior at Santa Clara University, where she will be receiving her BS in Computer Engineering and a Minor in Mathematics in June 2005. After that, she plans to obtain an MS in Computer Engineering. Tina is currently an intern at NASA Ames Research Center, and her areas of interest include security and networks.
Henry Canivel

Henry Canivel was born and raised in San Jose, CA. Currently a senior at Santa Clara University, he will be receiving his BS in Computer Engineering in June 2005. A former active board member for consecutive years with both the student chapters of IEEE and SWE, Henry is interested in getting an MS in the areas of Networking and Wireless Communications.

Student Profile/Biography:

Gloria Chang
Tina Chhabra
Henry Canivel

Project Description:

Abstract:
Networks of mobile sensors are used to simultaneously operate multiple robots (or devices) at the same time in order to perform a single task (or mission). These networks are usually formed by large groups of mobile devices, typically very low-cost (possibly disposable), which are distributed in a region and allowed to migrate or drift. These networks are extremely important for scientific research, in particular for measurements and observation. In fact, they are useful for a variety of missions, in which they enable increased coverage and/or availability, sensor fusion (e.g., stereo-vision and super-resolution), and graceful constitution and/or degradation. The focus of this project is to research, develop, and test possible communication structures for overlay networks, which are used for communication between the mobile devices in a network of mobile sensors. These structures will enable the devices to self-configure themselves into an overlay network and to adapt this configuration as they drift and their topology changes.