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MetroSense Project

In the MetroSense Project project we are investigating an opportunistic sensor networking paradigm to provide sensing coverage over a large area. By leveraging the uncontrolled mobility of people and vehicles, we can provide coverage in time over a wide area with a relatively sparse deployment of sensors. We have designed the MetroSense Architecture to symbiotically utilize existing networking infrastructure, exploit resource asymmetry, and focus on localized interaction to contain the complexity inherent in a mobile network. To evaluate MetroSense we are building a large-scale campus-area sensor network at Dartmouth College and ultimately across parts of Hanover, NH and New York City, NY with the goal of enabling people-centric applications based on secure, scalable sensing and fusion.

Publications

  1. Andrew T. Campbell, Shane B. Eisenman, Nicholas D. Lane, Emiliano Miluzzo, Ronald A. Peterson, Hong Lu, Xiao Zheng, Mirco Musolesi, Kristóf Fodor, and Gahng-Seop Ahn, "The Rise of People-Centric Sensing", To appear in IEEE Internet Computing: Mesh Networking, July/August, 2008. [manuscript]

  2. Shane B. Eisenman, Nicholas D. Lane and Andrew T. Campbell, "Techniques for Improving Opportunistic Sensor Networking Performance", To appear in Proc. of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '08) , June 11-14, 2008. [manuscript]

  3. Mirco Musolesi, Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane, Shane B. Eisenman, Tanzeem Choudhury and Andrew T. Campbell, "The Second Life of a Sensor Integrating Real-world Experience in Virtual Worlds using Mobile Phones", To appear in Proc. of the 5th Workshop on Embedded Sensor Networks (HotEmNets '08) , June 2-3, 2008. [manuscript]

  4. Nicholas D. Lane, Hong Lu, Shane B. Eisenman, Andrew T. Campbell, "Cooperative Techniques Supporting Sensor-based People-centric Inferencing", To appear in Proc. of Sixth Conf. on Pervasive Computing, Sydney, May 19-22, 2008. [manuscript]

  5. Hong Lu, Nicholas D. Lane, Shane B. Eisenman, and Andrew T. Campbell, "Bubble-Sensing: A New Paradigm for Binding a Sensing Task to the Physical World using Mobile Phones", To appear in Proc. of International Workshop on Mobile Devices and Urban Sensing, St. Louis, April 21, 2008. [manuscript]

  6. Nicholas D. Lane, Shane B. Eisenman, Mirco Musolesi, Emiliano Miluzzo, Andrew T. Campbell, "Urban Sensing Systems: Opportunistic or Participatory?", To appear in Proc. of Ninth Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2008), Napa Valley, February 25-26, 2008. [manuscript]

  7. Andrew T. Campbell, Shane B. Eisenman, Kristóf Fodor, Nicholas D. Lane, Hong Lu, Emiliano Miluzzo, Mirco Musolesi, Ronald A. Peterson, and Xiao Zheng, "CenceMe: Injecting Sensing Presence into Social Network Applications using Mobile Phones (Demo Abstract)", To appear at Ninth Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2008), Napa Valley, February 25-26, 2008. [manuscript]

  8. Shane B. Eisenman, Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane, Ronald A. Peterson, Gahng-Seop Ahn, and Andrew T. Campbell, "The BikeNet Mobile Sensing System for Cyclist Experience Mapping", In Proc. of Fifth ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2007), pp. 87-101, Sydney, November 6-9, 2007. [manuscript]

  9. Nicholas D. Lane, Shane B. Eisenman, Mirco Musolesi, Emiliano Miluzzo, Andrew T. Campbell, "Urban Sensing: Opportunistic or Participatory? (Extended Abstract)", Presented at Workshop on Sensing on Everyday Mobile Phones in Support of Participatory Research, Sydney, November 6, 2007. [manuscript]

  10. Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D. Lane, Shane B. Eisenman, Andrew T. Campbell, "CenceMe - Injecting Sensing Presence into Social Networking Applications" (Invited paper), In Proc. of Second European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC 2007), pp. 1-28, Lake District, UK, October 23-25, 2007. [manuscript]

  11. Shane B. Eisenman, Nicholas D. Lane, Emiliano Miluzzo, Ronald A. Peterson, Gahng-Seop Ahn, and Andrew T. Campbell, "MetroSense Project: People-Centric Sensing at Scale," In Proc. of Workshop on World-Sensor-Web (WSW 2006), pp. 6-11, Boulder, October 31, 2006. [manuscript][poster][talk]

  12. Shane B. Eisenman and Andrew T. Campbell, "SkiScape Sensing" (poster abstract), In Proc. of Fourth ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2006), pp. 401-402, Boulder, November 1-3, 2006. [manuscript][poster]

  13. Andrew T. Campbell, Shane B. Eisenman, Nicholas D. Lane, Emiliano Miluzzo and Ronald A. Peterson, "People-Centric Urban Sensing" (Invited Paper), In Proc. of Second ACM/IEEE International Conference on Wireless Internet (WiCon 2006), ACM Int'l Conf. Proc. Series, Vol. 220, No. 18, Boston, August 2-5, 2006. [manuscript]


The Armstrong Project

In The Armstong Project, we are developing new technologies to tackle the fundamental challenges of radio networking in low power, low bandwidth wireless sensor networks. We have developed a framework of medium access control algorithms aimed at minimizing packet loss probability by smart scheduling that takes radio device characteristics into account, and by learning the correlation between locally sensed channel conditions at the transmitter and successful reception at the receiver. We have also developed a congestion control framework including a set of control algorithms comprising an open-loop mechanism based on locally sensed channel load and a closed-loop mechanism for rate-limiting data sources, along with an on-demand congestion mitigating overlay service aimed at increasing application fidelity in resource-heterogeneous sensor networks.

Publications
  1. Chieh-Yih Wan, Shane B. Eisenman and Andrew T. Campbell, "Congestion Detection and Avoidance in Sensor Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (under review) [manuscript].

  2. 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]

  3. Shane B. Eisenman and Andrew T. Campbell, "E-CSMA: Supporting Enhanced CSMA Performance in Experimental Sensor Networks using Per-neighbor Transmission Probability Thresholds", In Proc. of 26th IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 1208-1216, Anchorage, May 6-12, 2007. [manuscript][talk]

  4. Shane B. Eisenman and Andrew T. Campbell, "Structuring Contention-based Channel Access in Wireless Sensor Networks," In Proc. of Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2006), pp. 226-234, Nashville, April 19-21, 2006. [manuscript][poster]

  5. 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, November 2-4, 2005. [manuscript][talk][video]

  6. 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, November 3-5, 2004. [manuscript]

  7. Shane B. Eisenman, Chieh-Yih Wan and Andrew T. Campbell, "PSFQ++: Critique and Suggestions for Source-to-Sink Reliable Transport", Technical Report CU/EE/TAP-TR-2004-11-002, November 10, 2004. [manuscript]

  8. Shane B. Eisenman and Chieh-Yih Wan, "Possibility for Collision Detection using a Single Radio Channel", Technical Report CU/EE/TAP-TR-2004-05-001, May 13, 2004. [manuscript]

  9. 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, November 5-7, 2003. [manuscript]

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