13th GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modeling, and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems
The technological advances in the micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and the wireless communications have enabled the deployment of the small intelligent sensor nodes at homes, in workplaces, supermarkets, plantations, oceans, streets, and highways to monitor the environment. The realization of smart environments to improve the efficiency of nearly every aspect of our daily lives by enhancing the human-to-physical world interaction is one of the most exciting potential sensor network applications utilizing these intelligent sensor nodes. However, this objective necessitates the efficient and application specific communication protocols to assure the reliable communication of the sensed event features and hence enable the required actions to be taken by the actors in the smart environment. In this talk, the grand challenges for the design and development of sensor/actor network communication protocols are presented. More specifically, application layer, transport layer, network layer, data link layer, in particular, error control and MAC protocols, and physical layer as well as cross layer issues are explained in detail.
Ian F. Akyildiz is Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory He has published over two-hundred technical papers in journals and conference proceedings. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier Science) and for the newly launched AdHoc Networks Journal (Elsevier Science). Dr. Akyildiz is an IEEE FELLOW (1995), an ACM FELLOW (1996). He served as a National Lecturer for ACM from 1989 until 1998 and received the ACM Outstanding Distinguished Lecturer Award for 1994. Dr. Akyildiz received the 1997 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize award (IEEE Communications Society) for his paper entitled "Multimedia Group Synchronization Protocols for Integrated Services Architectures" published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) in January 1996. Dr. Akyildiz received the 2002 IEEE Harry M. Goode Memorial award (IEEE Computer Society) with the citation "for significant and pioneering contributions to advanced architectures and protocols for wireless and satellite networking". He also received the 2002 IEEE Best Tutorial Paper award (IEEE Communications Society) for his paper entitled "A Survey on Wireless Sensor Networks" published in the IEEE Communications Magazine in July 2002. Dr. Akyildiz further received the 2003 ACM SIGMOBILE award for his outstanding research contributions to the wireless networking field. His current research interests are in Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks, InterPlaNetary Internet.