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Specialization Areas
Introduction
Each student should select and register for an area to focus on and then identify the related work, state-of-the-art and interesting research issues within this area. For each selected area the identified related work, state-of-the-art and research issues should be presented and discussed in seminar form, one area at a time.
As preparation for the second meeting each student should prepare some form of presentation and then also participate actively and give feedback and comments on the ideas, arguments and research issues presented by the other students.
At the last meeting a paper should be submitted to all other students that we can review and give comments on. At this meeting the student shall also act as opponent for two other students and subject areas.
Proposed subject areas
A subject can be on an architectural level or on a more detailed level. All subjects should in some way be based on or "contribute to cooperation" between two or more embedded systems in a realistic "energy efficient" way. The following is a list of proposals. Students can propose own proposals or variations of the given proposals.
1. Autonomous context aware computing - everywhere - what is needed to make it real.
2. Synchronization and timing issues related to loosely coupled wireless connected sensor nodes.
3. Ad hoc networks, multi hop routing, pico nets, scatter nets and clustering.
4. Cooperative multiple path transmission for reliability and increased efficiency.
5. Suitability of protocols such as TCP and UDP for wireless sensor networks.
6. Energy saving methods, saving and sleep modes and wake up.
7. Component oriented software for small embedded cooperative nodes.
8. Resource sharing in a distributed and more or less decentralized context.
9. Resource and service registration and lookup in wireless sensor network using e.g. Jini, UPnP, OSGi etc.
10. Sensor data fusion and decision fusion, aggregation and clustering.
11. Graceful degradation, network and data healing.
12. Coordination and transaction languages and technologies.
13. Sensor data handling, databases and query processing (TinyDB and Cougar etc).
14. Evaluation of operating systems such as TinyOS and Contiki.
15. Process algebras for losely coupled cooperative systems.
16. Cooperation via blackboards and tuple spaces.
17. Load balancing and other forms of cooperation based on games.
18. Distributed cooperative and non-cooperative algorithms.
19. Smart objects, actors and agents - ideas and differences.
