Professor Rachel Cardell-Oliver

M002, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering 

The University of Western Australia 

35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009

Tel: +61 8 64662231 (direct)

Fax: +61 8 6488 1089

Email: rachel.cardell-oliver at uwa dot edu dot au

Office: 1.20

RESEARCH

My research addresses models for the design, analysis and test of distributed, real-time systems including wireless sensor networks, embedded systems, and communication protocols. I am also interested in practical challenges of building and testing wireless sensor networks, and have developed several sensor network applications for soil moisture monitoring. Another research stream is software engineering techniques, in particular software testing. I use software testing to develop students’ understanding of software quality assurance in first year teaching.

I work in the Wireless Sensor Networks group, within the Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks group at UWA and with the Institute for Industrial Data Processing and Communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Mannheim and the Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network group at CSIRO QCAT in Queensland. I am currently working on environmental monitoring with CSIRO’s Fleck hardware, and with Motorola and the CRC for Plant Based Management of Dryland Salinity on assessing salinity impact.

PROJECTS

I am researching, Environmental Monitoring of Soil Moisture with Wireless Sensor Networks, Formal Models of Wireless Sensor Network Protocols and Automatic, Formative Assessment Tools to provide Timely Feedback to support Student Learning in Software Engineering.

A list of research project suggestions for PhD, Honour or Practicum students are available, with references.

A PROJECT REPOSITORY with proposals and theses for past and present students in the Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks group is available online. If you are thinking of applying to do an honours project or PhD with our group, please have a look through the repository for ideas.

PUBLICATIONS

See my CV for details and publications.
Links to recent online papers are available from the wireless sensor networks project pages on formal models and sensor networks for environmental monitoring and here

CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS

Alvaro Monsalve (PhD from 2010) MAC protocols for high data rate sensor networks, joint supervision with Amitava Datta

Anthony Blond (PhD from 2009) Smart Homes, joint supervision with Wei Liu
Lesley Lu Zhang (MSc Research from 2008) Assessing Software Engineering Quality Assurance, joint supervision with Terry Woodings

Chi Yang (PhD from 2008) Querying Sensor Network Data, joint supervision with Chris McDonald

Cathy Rye (PhD) Soil Moisture Studies, joint supervision with Keith Smettem, Centre for Ecohydrology

Alex Bagini (BE SE Hons) Assessing Java Programming Strategies for Novice Programmers

COMPLETED RESEARCH STUDENTS & POSTDOCS

Jingbo Sun (PhD 2009) A Framework for Building Autonomic Environmental Sensor Networks

Lanny Sitanayah (MSc Research 2009) Boundary Detection in Sensor Networks joint supervision with Amitava Datta

Valence Phua (PhD 2009) A communication protocol framework for wireless sensor networks in industrial environments joint supervision with Amitava Datta

Babak Pazand (PhD 2008) Location-free node scheduling schemes for energy efficient, fault tolerant and adaptive sensing in wireless sensor networks joint supervision with Amitava Datta

Winnie Louis Lee (PhD 2008) Flexible-schedule-based TDMA protocols for supporting fault-tolerance, on-demand TDMA slot transfer, and peer-to-peer communication in wireless sensor networks joint supervision with Amitava Datta

Terry Woodings (PhD 2006) Variation in project parameters as a measure of improvement in software process control joint supervision with Gary Bundell

Thorsten Gerdsmeier (PhD 2002, University of Essex)

Thorsten Gerdsmeier (MSc Research 1999, University of Essex)

Chris Southon (MSc Research 1995)

Jianqing HE (Leo) (Masters 2010) Sensor Networks Applications

Adam Khalid (Masters 2009) Evaluating Students’ Software Style

Asad Naveed (Masters 2009-10) Assessing Multi-attribute Software Quality Criteria
You Hai Lim (Honours 2009) Tool Support for Learning Programming Style

Rieky Barady (Masters 2009) Tool Support for Teaching GUI Programming

Tim Burrough (Honours 2007) Implementing Situation Detection on SunSPOTs joint supervision with Mark Kranz
Mark Kranz (Research Associate 2005-08) Sensor network programming tools

David Hng (1^st class Honours 2007 and Winner 17^th WAITTA Student Project Award 2008) joint supervision with EunJung Holden Automated image analysis of Geographic Raster Data

Jimm Boh (1^st class Honours 2006-7) Generating test cases for Test Driven Development

Tiang Cheng (Hons 2006) Heterogeneous sensor networks for Aged-Care

Mark Kranz (1^st class Hons 04-05), SENSID: Situation detection for sensor networks
Mark Moss (Hons 05) Evaluation of Event Aware Environmental Data Compression Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks
Cathy Rye (Hons 05) joint supervision with Keith Smettem, Centre for Water Research
Patrick Downey (Hons 03)

Anna Parsons (Hons 03)

Tim Glover (Postdoc 1997-2000)

RECENT CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEES

ISSNIP 2011 Sensor Networks Symposium (Co-chair)

SenseApp 2011

RealWSN 2010

IEEE Local Computer Networks 2010

ACSW 2011 Doctoral Consortium Chair

ASWEC2010, ASWEC09 Australian Software Engineering Conference

ACSW 2010 (Australasian Computer Science Week), Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair, Brisbane, January 18-21, 2010
AWSN 2009 (Adaptation in Wireless and Sensor Networks) in conjunction with the 7th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-09) (http://cse.stfx.ca/~euc09/)

LCN09 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 2009

ICC'2009 – Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium in IEEE International Conference on Communications'2009

SPOTS 2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) track on Sensor Platforms, Tools and Design Methods, San Francisco, April 13-16, 2009

AWSN-08 The 2008 International Workshop on Adaptation in Wireless Sensor Networks in conjunction with The 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing (IPC-08) Sydney, Australia, December 10-12, 2008

IEEE SenseApp 2008,

3^rd IEEE Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications Montreal 2008

ICC'2009 – Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium in IEEE International Conference on Communications'2009

ASWEC08 19^th Australian Software Engineering Conference 26-28 March 2008, Perth, Australia

7th IFIP Annual MEDITERRANEAN AD-HOC NETWORKING Conference (MED-HOC-NET 2008), (http://medhocnet08.uib.es/)
SenSys 2007, Sydney, Poster Co-Chair
SENSORCOMM 2007, http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/SENSORCOMM07.html, Valencia Spain
TESTCOM / FATES '07, 19th IFIP Int. Conference on Testing Communication Systems (TESTCOM) and 7th Int. Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software (FATES), June 2007
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2007, Track on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2007spring/