Archive for July, 2007
Thesis Proposal Rough Draft
Horrah! I’ve just sent the rough draft of my thesis proposal to my advisor. For the record, it is 17 pages, 8195 words, 44838 non-whitespace characters, and 259 paragraphs. I’ll spend a couple of more days cleaning it up before I send it to the committee members.
July 18, 2007
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Beyond SmartDust
I started out trying to understand Smart Dust, then I realized I was a decade behind! The Berkeley Robotics web page now has the NEST research under “past projects.” They have moved on to the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology Heterogeneous Sensor Network group. Useful publications include Instrumenting Wireless Sensor Networks for Real-time [...]
July 15, 2007
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The Design Space of Wireless Sensor Networks
Summary of: Romer, Kay, and Friedmann Mattern, The Design Space of Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Wireless Communications, pp. 54-61, December 2004. http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/publ/papers/wsn-designspace.pdf This article organizes a methodology for classifying wireless sensor networks. The authors observed that wireless sensor networks were being used in a diverse variety of applications and that many of the applications were [...]
July 15, 2007
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