Title: Cascades: Scalable, Composable Middleware for Multimodal Sensor
Networking Applications

Speaker: Dr. Nirupama Bulusu, Assistant Professor, Portland Sate 
University, USA

Date/Time: 7th December 2006 (Wednesday), 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Location: Lecture Theatre EE G25, Electrical Engineering, UNSW

Abstract:

Sensor network applications can benefit enormously from multi-modal sets of sensors that include video. Such applications are however extremely diverse in the coordination and interaction requirements among the sensors. Supporting such applications requires that the systems software be not only flexible, but also efficient and provide high performance.

I will describe the design and implementation of Cascades, a middleware system that supports composable, retaskable, and application-tailorable systems software for sensor networks that contain both multimedia and scalar sensor data types. Cascades consists of Python-based cascading filters that can effectively manage the trade-off of highly optimized systems and the need to tailor the system to the user application.

This is joint work with Wu-chi Feng, Jie Huang, and Philip Sitbon at Portland State University.


Speaker Bio:

Nirupama Bulusu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University.
Her current research interests lie in sensor networks, with  an emphasis on sensor localization 
and heterogeneous or hybrid sensor networks. She is an editor for the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal, the book Wireless Sensor Networks: A Systems Perspective (Artech House, MA, 2005), an author of numerous highly referenced sensor network publications, and an organizing or program committee member of numerous sensor networking conferences and workshops.

For more about her, see http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~nbulusu