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Sensor Design Working Group

Meets: Thursdays - 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Leaders: Jim Clark, Jun Yang
Webmaster: Long Nguyen

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Announcements

PEOPLE 01/30: The working group mailing list address is sensor-design@samsi.info
01/28: The group website is up. References on suppression schemes uploaded.
01/28: The group's wiki is up (thanks to Neal Patwari). Check for the link above.
01/28: Please send your comment/suggestions to: xuanlong.nguyen@gmail.com

 

 

 
 
  REFERENCES & NOTES

 

DATE
TOPICS, etc
01/24/08 Organizational meeting
Discussed the Redwood paper from Todd Dawson's group
01/31/08 Discussed the sensor network deployment at the Duke Forest (David Bell)
Issues in modeling soil moisture data (Yongku Kim)
02/07/08 Suppression schemes in distributed systems and sensor networks (Long Nguyen)
Discussion of other design problems
02/14/08 Roundtable discussion of problems of interest in sensor network design
(Click the link "References" for the talk slides by each participants)
02/21/08 Continued individual talks by group participants
02/28/08 Continued individual talks by group participants
03/06/08 Discussion of design formulations.
03/13/08 Physical/statistical models of link connectivity (Neal Patwari).
03/20/08 Overview of spatial sampling design (Zhengyuan Zhu).
03/27/08 Formulating design problems (refining notions of cost and utilities in a sensor network context).
04/03/08 Continued discussion of design problem formulations: spatiotemporal model for soil moisture, design spaces and constraints, and three main formulations.
04/10/08 Continued discussion of design problem formulations: A more refined spatiotemporal model for soil moisture taking into account topographical data.
04/17--24/08 Discussions of spatiotemporal model for soil moisture taking into account topographical data.
05/08--15/08 Working on design strategies and optimization formulations
(see References for updated working notes)
05/22/08 Discussion of design modules (LP-based formulation for communication costs and simulation-based optimal design)
07/10/08 Discussion of simulation results
07/17/08 Discussion of simulation results: Tradeoff of node sampling rate, temporal sampling rate and node clustering

 

Group Members

Name Affiliation Email Address
Ankit Agarwal Univ. of Kansas, Computer Engineering ankit@ku.edu
David Bell Duke Univ, Environmental Science dmb27@duke.edu
Michael Breen EPA breen.michael@epa.gov
Michela Cameletti SAMSI, Statistics michela.cameletti@unibg.it
Zoe Cardon The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Lab zcardon@mbl.edu
Jim Clark   Duke Univ., Environmental Science, Statistics jimclark@duke.edu
Jorge Cortes   Univ of California, San Diego cortes@ucsd.edu
Jess Croft Univ of Utah, Electrical Engineering jesscroft@gmail.com
Todd Dawson
Univ of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology tdawson@berkeley.edu
Carla Ellis Duke Univ, Computer Science carla@cs.duke.edu
Marco Ferreira
Univ of Missouri ferreiram@missouri.edu
Paul Flikkema   Northern Arizona Univ, Electrical Engineering paul.flikkema@nau.edu
Jeff Frolik Univ of Vermont, Electrical Engineering jfrolik@uvm.edu
Alan Gelfand   Duke Univ, Statistics alan@stat.duke.edu
Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr. CDC, Statistics  jfg2@CDC.GOV
Scott Holan
Univ of Missouri, Statistics HolanS@missouri.edu
Sheryl Howard   Nothern Arizona Univ, Electrical Engineering sheryl.howard@nau.edu
Rosalba Ignaccolo
SAMSI, Statistics ignaccolo@econ.unito.it
Chris Jones  Univ of North Carolina ckrtj@email.unc.edu
Yongku Kim   SAMSI/ Duke, Statistics kim@samsi.info
Hamid Krim   North Carolina State Univ ahk@ncsu.edu  
Soumen Lahiri   Texas A& M, Statistics snlahiri@stat.tamu.edu
David Leslie Bristol Univ, Statistics david.leslie@bristol.ac.uk
Kristian Lum Duke Univ, Statistics kristianlum@gmail.com
Yajun Mei Georga Tech, Statistics yajun.mei@isye.gatech.edu
George Michailidis
Univ of Michigan, Statistics gmichail@umich.edu
Long Nguyen SAMSI/ Duke Univ, Statistics xuanlong.nguyen@gmail.com
Neal Patwari Univ of Utah, Electrical Engineering npatwari@ece.utah.edu
Michael Porter North Carolina State Univ, Statistics porter@stat.ncsu.edu
Ilka Reis National Institute for Space Research, Brazil ilka@ufmg.br
Christine Shoemaker Cornell Univ cas12@cornell.edu
Jun Yang Duke Univ, Computer Science junyang@cs.duke.edu
Bin Yu Univ of California, Berkeley, Statistics binyu@stat.berkeley.edu
Yi Zhang Duke Univ, Computer Science yizhang@cs.duke.edu
Zhengyuan Zhu Univ of North Carolina, Statistics z-zhu@unc.edu

 

 

 

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