The Armstrong Project

The Amstrong Project is developing new technologies for wireless sensor and ad hoc networks. Four initial contributions made by the project are the development of (1) a congestion control framework for wireless sensor networks including CODA, a set of informed rate-control algorithms, CONCERT, a congestion-aware adaptive aggregation proposal, and Siphon, a fidelity-enhancing on-demand overlay service; (2) a reliable transport protocol for wireless sensor networks called PSFQ; (3) energy-efficient routing schemes for wireless ad hoc networks, including SOFA, a solicitation-based protocol tailored for sensor network workloads, and PARO, which is based on dynamic variable transmission range power control; and (4) a framework of medium access control algorithms including E-CSMA, that aims to enhance the de facto state of carrier sensing-based MACs in wireless sensor networks by using low cost channel feedback combined with a learning approach to try to better predict the probability of a successful reception, on a per-receiver basis, Funneling-MAC, that provides scheduled access in the last hop to the sink to alleviate the funneling effect, and qMAC, a channel access scheme to eliminate packet collisions in wireless sensor networks due to the idle channel detection delay problem and the hidden transmitter problem. Our work is based on experimental systems research.

Members (*emeriti)

Gahng-Seop Ahn

Andrew Campbell

Shane Eisenman

Laura Gallucio*

Javier Gomez-Castellanos*

Rajeswari Harikrishnan*

Se Gi Hong*

Kyung Joon Kwak*

Anupama Lath*

Nicholas Lane

Seoung-Bum Lee*

Emiliano Miluzzo

Chieh-Yih Wan*

Publications
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2008

Shane B. Eisenman, "People-Centric Mobile Sensing Networks," Ph.D. Dissertation, October 2008. [manuscript]

2007

Chieh-Yih Wan, Shane B. Eisenman, Andrew T. Campbell and Jon Crowcroft, “Overload Traffic Management for Sensor Networks,” In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 3, Iss. 4, pp. 1-35, November 2007. [manuscript]

Shane B. Eisenman and Andrew T. Campbell, "E-CSMA: Supporting Enhanced CSMA Performance in Experimental Sensor Networks using Per-neighbor Transmission Probability Thresholds", In IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, May 6-12, 2007. [manuscript] [talk]

2006

Gahng-Seop Ahn, Emiliano Miluzzo, Andrew T. Campbell, Se Gi Hong and Francesca Cuomo, “ Funneling MAC: A Localized, Sink-Oriented MAC For Boosting Fidelity in Sensor Networks,” in Proc. of the Fourth ACM Conf. on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2006), pp. 293-306, Boulder, Nov 1-3, 2006. [manuscript]

Nicholas Lane and Andrew T. Campbell, “The Influence of Microprocessor Instructions on the Energy Consumption of Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Proc. of the Third Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNets 2006), pp. 41-45, Cambridge, May 30-31, 2006. [manuscript]

Shane B. Eisenman and Andrew T. Campbell, “Structuring Contention-based Channel Access in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Proc. of Fifth Int'l Conf. on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2006), pp. 226-234, Nashville, Apr 19-21, 2006. [manuscript] [poster]

Seoung-Bum Lee, Kyung Joon Kwak and Andrew T. Campbell, "Solicitation-Based Forwarding for Sensor Networks", In Proc. of Third Annual IEEE Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2006), pp. 90--99, Reston, Sep 25-28, 2006. [manuscript]

Seoung-Bum Lee, "Adaptive Quality of Service for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," Ph.D. Dissertation, June 2006. [manuscript]

2005

Chieh-Yih Wan, Shane B. Eisenman, Andrew T. Campbell and Jon Crowcroft, “Siphon: Overload Traffic Management using Multi-Radio Virtual Sinks”, in Proc. of Third ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2005), pp. 116-129, San Diego, Nov 2-4, 2005. [manuscript] [talk] [video]

Laura Galluccio, Andrew T. Campbell and Sergio Palazzo, “CONCERT: aggregation-based CONgestion Control for sEnsoR neTworks” (poster abstract), in Proc. of Third ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2005), pp. 274-275, San Diego, Nov 2-4, 2005. [manuscript]

Chieh-Yih Wan, Andrew T. Campbell and Lakshman Krishnamurthy, “Pump-Slowly, Fetch-Quickly (PSFQ): A Reliable Transport Protocol for Sensor Networks”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 862-872, April 2005. [manuscript]

Chieh-Yih Wan, "A Resilient Transport System for Wireless Sensor Networks," Ph.D. Dissertation, March 2005. [manuscript]

2004

Javier Gomez and Andrew T. Campbell, "A Case for Variable-Range Transmission Power Control in Wireless Multihop Networks", IEEE INFOCOM, 2004. [manuscript]

Chieh-Yih Wan, Andrew T. Campbell and Jon Crowcroft, “A Case for All-Wireless, Dual Radio Virtual Sinks” (poster abstract), in Proc. of Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2004), pp. 267-268, Baltimore, Nov 3-5, 2004. [manuscript] [poster]

Chieh-Yih Wan, Shane B. Eisenman and Andrew T. Campbell, “CODA + PSFQ + Virtual Sinks = Enabling Technologies for Resilient Sensor Networking” (demo abstract), in Proc. of Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2004), pp. 308, Baltimore, Nov 3-5, 2004. [manuscript] [poster]

Chieh-Yih Wan, Andrew T. Campbell and Lakshman Krishnamurthy, “Reliable Transport for Sensor Networks”, (Eds.) Taieb Znati, Krishna M. Sivalingam and Cauligi Raghavendra, Wireless Sensor Networks, Kluwer Academic/Springer Verlag Publishers, Chapter 8. pp. 153-182, ISBN:1-4020-7883-8, May 2004. [manuscript]

2003

Gomez, J., Campbell, A.T., Naghshineh, M. and C. Bisdikian, "PARO: Supporting Dynamic Power Controlled Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," in ACM/Kluwer Journal on Wireless Networks (WINET), Volume 9, Issue 5, pp. 443-460, 2003. [manuscript]

Chieh-Yih Wan, Shane B. Eisenman and Andrew T. Campbell,  “CODA: Congestion Detection and Avoidance in Sensor Networks”, in Proc. of First ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2003), pp. 266-279, Los Angeles, Nov 5-7 2003. [manuscript]

2002

Chieh-Yih Wan and Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University; Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Intel Labs, “PSFQ: A Reliable Transport Protocol For Wireless Sensor Networks”, First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA 2002), Atlanta, September 28, 2002. [manuscript]

Javier Gomez-Castellanos, "Energy-Efficient Routing and Control Mechanisms for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," Ph.D. Dissertation, December 2002. [manuscript]

2001

J. Gomez, A.T. Campbell, M. Naghshineh and C. Bisdikian "Conserving Transmission Power in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", in Proc. 9th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2001), Riverside, California, November 11 - 14, 2001. [manuscript]

J. Gomez, A.T. Campbell, M. Naghshineh, C. Bisdikian "PARO: A Power-Aware Routing Optimization Scheme for Mobile Ad hoc Networks", Internet Draft draft-gomez-paro-manet-00.txt IETF MANET Working Group, 50th IETF - Minneapolis, MN, March 2001. [manuscript]

2000

1999

Javier Gomez, and Andrew T. Campbell, Mahmoud Naghshineh and C. Bisdikian "Power-Aware Routing in Wireless Packet Radio" , in Proc. 6th IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MOMUC99) , San Diego, 15-17 November 1999. [manuscript]

Sponsors

Funding for The Armstrong Project has been provided by ARO W911NF-04-1-0311, NSF WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY Award ANI-9979439, Intel Corp. and IBM Research.

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