Implementation and research issues in query processing for wireless sensor networks

Abstract

This is a three-hour seminar discussing the design and implementation of software systems as well as open research problems related to data processing and collection in wireless sensor networks. During the first hour-and-ahalf, we focus on the design of the TinyDB data collection system for networks of Berkeley motes running the TinyOS operating system. Then, during the remainder of the seminar, we survey relevant literature from the database, networking, and OS communities and identify a number of unsolved and inadequately addressed research problems. This seminar is intended for anyone interested in wireless sensor networks with a general background in computer science, be they users of sensor networks looking for an easy way to collect data, developers interested in the design of TinyOS and TinyDB, or researchers in search of challenging new problems.