NetSenCENetworked Sensing in

Challenged Environments

A joint partnership between UMass Amherst, Dartmouth and Lowell, and WHOI

Brian Levine, Prashant ShenoyDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of Massachusetts

Vision sensing: monitoring, measuring environment

increasingly important challenged environments: ocean floors, bays,

estuaries, rivers, forests, glaciers, mountaintops

Massachusetts/New England:

“.. [should] .. develop a system to monitor ocean conditions to ensure a health and growing marine economy”

“It is crucial for business and government to invest in research to develop those areas because the region’s success is so closely tied to the ocean.”

NetSenCE

Core technology mission: wireless networking technologies and sensor platforms for challenged environments. affordability, robustness emphasis on water sensing

Close collaboration with domain experts WHOI ocean scientists, underwater surveillance UMass environmental scientists

Massachusetts Center for Networked Sensing in Challenged Environments

Who we are: broad technical expertise:

sensor nets, embedded systems, real-time computing, wireless networking, data management, performance, expertise

leadership: technical community (program committees), centers and

programs (CASA, MS&T); range of seniority

multicampus

Brian Levine, Prashant Shenoy: co-directors

UMass-Amherst CS : Mark Corner, Deepak Ganesan, Jim Kurose, Don Towsley, Arun Venkatarmani

UMass-Dartmouth: Lou Goodman (SMast)

UMass-Lowell CS: Ben Liu

Woods Hole:

Lee Freitag, Jim Partan, Jim Preisig, Andy Maffei

WHOI

About us

Building on Existing Collaborations

Related collaborations: BBN (Cambridge): IBM/ITA; BBN code on UMass DieselNet; joint

participation in NSF Future Internet Design (FIND/DTN) BAE (Burlington): Darpa mobile ad hoc networks General Dynamics (Pittsfield): ONR Littoral program WHOI/UMass/UConn: joint NSF research infrastructure award support from UMass Boston CESN Others: Raytheon; Cisco (Boxboro); EMC; Intel; MS;

Joint research (publication), grantsWHOI PhD student at UMass/CS2 UMass/CS undergrads at WHOI

joint research

joint research,grant (IBM/ITA wireless),former PhD student

Lowell

Dartmouth

Work Plan/Budget NetSenCE: closer research

collaborations, joint future proposals

1 year joint UMass/WHOI post-doctoral researcher

Half research scientist for environmental connections

Faculty release time for proposal development

multi-campus, weekly seminar graduate-level reading/research

Future funding opportunities DARPA, ONR: littoral sensing, SEANAV

UMass-Dartmouth ties to ONR

DARPA, HSARPA: port monitoring NSF Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI)

disruption-tolerant networks/mobility key innovation area BBN awarded GENI coordinating role

NSF Cyber-Enabled Discovery, Innovation (CDI): planned $750M NSF program linking physical and cyber worlds “Broaden the Nation’s capability for innovation by developing a new

generation of computationally based discovery concepts and tools to deal with complex, data-rich, and interacting systems.”

Possible state economic development funds

Networking in Challenged Environments

Technical Challenges: sparse deployment short-radio ranges system suspension/ power

management node mobility fixed costs failures likely or untenable unreliable/non-existent

infrastructure application-driven utility

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