Workshop Overview
Wireless sensor network technology has expanded from
its origins of over a decade ago to now include many
new communities in both research and applications.
New technology requirements have rapidly appeared along
with many new applications. New applications in
natural and urban environmental sensing require many
sensing channels that include acoustic, seismic, meteorological,
multispectral imaging, and bio-chemical sensing. As
applications have evolved, the requirements for precision
have increased as well. Furthermore, distributed/decentralized
control applications will now impose real-time constraints
on sensor network services. While new applications
appear, the long-standing problems of scarce energy
resources and unreliable, energy-intensive wireless
communication remain as increasingly important challenges.
A broad set of new research opportunities exist for
addressing these new requirements. In particular, the
Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS) Division
of the NSF contributes to a vision of joint development
of hardware and software architectures that simultaneously
consider sensing, signal processing, event detection,
computing, and networking. Grantees of the ECS
Division are pursuing research in these areas.
The NSF Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS)
Workshop on Wireless Networked Sensor Systems was proposed
to convene the Grantees of the ECS Division as well
as others to explore the new ECS opportunities, develop
a series of new program concepts, and ultimately create
new research avenues for urgent ECS problems. The
UCLA Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) was
pleased to host this First NSF Electrical Communications
Systems (ECS) workshop on Wireless Networked Sensor
and Actuator Systems on September 8 and 9 at the UCLA
Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
(HSSEAS).
The Workshop Committee Members
- Dr. Vittal Rao
Program Director for Control,
Networks, and Computational Intelligence (CNCI)
of the National Science Foundation, ECS Division
- William
Kaiser (Committee Chairman)
Professor,
UCLA, Electrical Engineering Department
- Michael Lemmon
Professor,
University of Notre Dame, Electrical Engineering
Department
- George Riley
Professor, Georgia Tech,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Saibun
Tjuatja
Professor, University of Texas
at Arlington, Electrical Engineering Department
The Committee appreciates the outstanding presentations,
posters, and valuable discussions held at this Workshop.
Workshop Report
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