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CSSE Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Research Group

This page describes current research on wireless and mobile networking in the School of CSSE at UWA. Our interests include network simulation, ad-hoc networking, wireless sensor networks, power-aware routing, motes, and modelling complex systems.
Our work addresses the challenges of developing efficient, robust and secure communication protocols and applications for mobile, low power, self-organising, wireless networks. 

Current Projects

Project Chardonnay Sensor networks for viticulture
(ARC Linkage, Evans & Tate) 

Salinity Impact Sensor Networks
(CRC for Dryland Salinity, Motorola Global Software Group, UWA Computer Science & Software Engineering, Plant Biology and Centre for Water Research)

Soil Water Monitoring Sensor Networks
(Water Corporation of WA and Centre for Water Research UWA)

Formal Models for Wireless Sensor Network Protocols
(CRC Salinity, Gledden Scholarship)

Trust and Security in Ad Hoc Networks
 
(IPRS scholarship)

Energy and Cost Efficient Protocols for efficient data collection, robust wireless networks for factories, evaluation of fault tolerant protocols, self-healing and self-optimising networks

Academic Staff

Rachel Cardell-Oliver  
Amitava Datta  
David Glance  
Chris McDonald  

Research Students

Sayeed Ahmed   Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks
Amer Filipovic   Energy-efficient routing in mobile ad hoc networks
Winnie Louis Lee   TDMA protocols for wireless sensor networks
Babak Pazand   Location-free coverage protocols for wireless sensor networks
Asad Amir Pirzada   Trust and security in mobile ad hoc networks
Valance Phua   MAC protocols for industrial wireless sensor networks
Lanny Sitanayah   Tracking in wireless sensor networks
Jingbo Sun   Wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring


Past Students & Projects

 

Robert Caswell
Samantha Chen Protocol simulation for WSNs

Anna Parsons Software Engineering a Wireless Sensor Network for Environmental Monitoring

Pat Downey, Boris: An Extensible Java Simulator for Wireless Sensor Networks

Cheng Phua   Low latency fault-tolerant protocol for mobile IP
Ibrahim Abdul Rahim   Adaptive link reversal protocols for sensor networks
Shen Zhang   Directional antenna based MAC protocol for static wireless networks

Zee Yeow Gong    Compact scatternet formation using Bluetooth
Raal Goff   MAC protocol for wireless network based on token exchange

Iavor Georgeff   Scalable and distributed topology extraction in sensor networks

Niraj Vatvani, Analysis of Mica2 Mote Performance

Publications

click here for a bibliography (last updated October 2006)

Funding and Collaboration

CSIRO QCAT Wireless Sensor Network group
Motorola GSG
UWA Centre for Water Research
CRC for Plant-Based Management of Dryland Salinity
Western Australian Water Corporation
ARC Linkage with Evans & Tate Winemakers
Dartmouth College Wireless Systems Group

Units

Discussion Group

We usually meet every two weeks on Fridays at 2pm in Room 1.24 to discuss current work, proposals, new papers. 
Please contact chris@csse.uwa.edu.au to give a talk.

Useful Links and Bibliographes

Berkeley Mica Motes from Crossbow
TinyOS operating system and Training Material
Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Bibliography maintained by L Miller (thanks to Asad)

Mobile and Wireless Computing Journals

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Wireless Networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Wireless Personal Communications
Ad Hoc Networks
Computer Communications
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Computer Networks

Mobile and Wireless Computing Conference Proceedings

International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing
International Workshop on Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM)
International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)
International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE)
MobiHoc
ACM Workshop On Principles Of Mobile Computing
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium

Other resources

1999 Draft 802.11 specification [PDF, 6.4MB]
Radio theory and link planning for WLANs

Last updated 6 October 2006 by Amitava Datta