Grant: Strategic Projects - Group
University of Ottawa
$154,500.00
DISTRACT: cooperative distributed target in multi-tier heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSN)
FY 2015-16
Summary
With the advances of sensor devices' technology, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have reached the point where it is now possible to deploy them for all sorts of real applications that involve complex target tracking and environmental monitoring. These advances are mainly due to the distributed nature of WSNs which enables the sensing, gathering, storing, processing and disseminating of data. However, the design of such applications still remains a fundamental and open research problem; this is because we do not have the corresponding general and broad principles for designing target tracking through a WSN, which poses numerous new sets of challenges to be resolved. As opposed to previous studies, we believe that a unified approach that considers node deployment and its consequently induced topology, localization, coverage, data fidelity, data fusion and dissemination, data storage, and scalable object tracking in multi-tier WSNs is essential to network functions that can be employed in many different target tracking based classes of applications; this approach can also improve these applications' performance and reduce target tracking errors significantly since the aforementioned issues are all interrelated and can all be optimized when deployed together. In collaboration with our partners in industry, we propose to design a multi-tier WSN based target tracking suite of protocols using the unified approach. We shall validate our proposed solutions in a real test bed of sensor networks. We believe the technologies and prototype platform proposed in the DisTrac will act as an incubator for various future research projects and applications of WSNs. Our objective is to build a continuing research nucleus around WSNs for target tracking and other applications.
The PIs are responding to the growing demands from the public health safety and emergency preparedness department within Ontario and Canada to design a robust and reliable target tracking using wireless sensors infrastructure for critical monitoring of context aware physical environments.
Program
Strategic Projects - Group
Recipient
Location
Ontario, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
447441-2013
Name nom
Boukerche, Azzedine
Department département
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , School of
Organization id
28
Institution établissement
University of Ottawa
Province en
Ontario
Province fr
Ontario
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2015
Competition year année de concours
2013
Award amount
154500
Program id
STPGP
Program name en
Strategic Projects - Group
Program name fr
Projets stratégiques - De groupe
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
1567
Committee name en
Strategic Projects Selection Panel - ICT
Committee name fr
Comité de sélection des projets stratégiques - ICT
Area of application code
1207
Area of application group en
Advancement of knowledge
Area of application group fr
Avancement des connaissances
Area of application en
Information, computer and communication technologies
Area of application fr
Technologie de l'information, des ordinateurs et des réseaux de communications
Research subject code
2700
Research subject group en
Information technology
Research subject group fr
Technologie de l'information
Research subject en
Information technology
Research subject fr
Technologie de l'information
Partie
3
Nb partie
3
Application title
DISTRACT: cooperative distributed target in multi-tier heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSN)
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
With the advances of sensor devices' technology, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have reached the point where it is now possible to deploy them for all sorts of real applications that involve complex target tracking and environmental monitoring. These advances are mainly due to the distributed nature of WSNs which enables the sensing, gathering, storing, processing and disseminating of data. However, the design of such applications still remains a fundamental and open research problem; this is because we do not have the corresponding general and broad principles for designing target tracking through a WSN, which poses numerous new sets of challenges to be resolved. As opposed to previous studies, we believe that a unified approach that considers node deployment and its consequently induced topology, localization, coverage, data fidelity, data fusion and dissemination, data storage, and scalable object tracking in multi-tier WSNs is essential to network functions that can be employed in many different target tracking based classes of applications; this approach can also improve these applications' performance and reduce target tracking errors significantly since the aforementioned issues are all interrelated and can all be optimized when deployed together. In collaboration with our partners in industry, we propose to design a multi-tier WSN based target tracking suite of protocols using the unified approach. We shall validate our proposed solutions in a real test bed of sensor networks. We believe the technologies and prototype platform proposed in the DisTrac will act as an incubator for various future research projects and applications of WSNs. Our objective is to build a continuing research nucleus around WSNs for target tracking and other applications.
The PIs are responding to the growing demands from the public health safety and emergency preparedness department within Ontario and Canada to design a robust and reliable target tracking using wireless sensors infrastructure for critical monitoring of context aware physical environments.
