Tutorial: Applications and Research Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks (Half-day Tutorial)
Leaders: John McEachen, Weilian Su, Owens Walker, Edoardo Biagioni and Murali Tummala

Building from last year’s tutorial, we will explore a diverse range of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications and introduce the attendee to potential research areas of common interest. Wireless Sensor Networks have seen increasingly widespread use in recent years due to significant technological advancements in a confluence of areas including radio transceivers, MEMS, microprocessors and flash memory. The tutorial is intended to compliment the Wireless Sensor Network minitrack – within the Software Technology track – by exposing the attendee to general WSN issues which may be addressed in more detail in the main conference sessions. Applications covered will include: military applications such as area containment, intelligence collection and unit protection; environmental monitoring such as precision agriculture; infrastructure monitoring; and health monitoring. At least a third of the session will be devoted to discussing current WSN research topics such as deployment, architectures, topologies, routing, medium access, and security.

John McEachen (mceachen@nps.edu) is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He received the PhD and M.Phil. degrees from Yale University, the M.E.E.E. degree from the University of Virginia and the B.S.E.E. from the University of Notre Dame.

Weilian Su weilian@nps.edu, Dr. Weilian Su received his B.S. degree in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1997 with Summa Cum Laude and ECSE department's Lockheed Martin Capstone Design Award. He also received his M.S.E.C.E and Ph.D degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2004. Dr. Su specializes in sensor and ATM networks under the guidance of Dr. Ian F. Akyildiz in Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2003, he received the "2003 Best Tutorial Paper Award" from IEEE Communications Society. Currently, Dr. Su is an Assistant Professor at Naval Postgraduate School. His current research interests are sensor networks, ad hoc networks, quality of service in Internet, distributed networks, and satellite networks.


Owens Walker towalker@nps.edu, is a Commander in the United States Navy and a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School.   He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1987 and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering and his Electrical Engineer degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1995.   Upon graduation in September 2009, CDR Walker will join the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the United States Naval Academy.  His current research interests include wireless sensor networks, ad hoc networks, and wireless medium access.

Edoardo Biagioni esb@hawaii.edu

Murali Tummala mtummala@nps.edu