时间：6月 27日（周五)下午  2:00至4:00

地点：北大东门外方正大厦407会议室

报告人：美国新泽西州立大学电子与计算机工程系张燕咏副教授（Yanyong Zhang）

Abstract

The ability for wireless sensor networks to collect data over a vast spatial domain as well as deliver data over a substantial temporal domain is enabling a wide range of emerging applications. While these applications have profound scientific and economic impacts on our society, their success is nonetheless determined by whether a steady stream of correct data can be provided by the sensor networks to the analysis/decision-making units. This need for continuous data provisioning over a significant time period, however, imposes great challenges to the underlying system. Specifically, wireless sensor networks are prone to a large array of hazards, such as frequent node failures, congestion, and radio interference. In this talk, we will discuss a holistic approach that can provide robust services in the presence of these hazards.

Bio of speaker: Yanyong Zhang has 10 years research experience in the field of distributed computing and performance evaluation. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rutgers University. She is also a member of Winlab. She has been involved in several NSF grants related to wireless networking, including the ORBIT wireless testbed, the PARIS project on privacy, and the NSF CAREER award that focuses on developing robust wireless sensor networks. She is an organizer of several ACM/IEEE workshops on self-managing systems. She has published over 45 papers on performance optimizations of various parallel and distributed systems, including sensor networks. She has also led WINLAB's efforts in performance evaluation of MANET protocols on ORBIT for the Army CERDEC. She has published over 50 papers in journals and conferences. She is a member of the ACM, the IEEE, and the IEEE Computer Society.