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NetSenCE
Networked Sensing in
Challenged Environments
A joint partnership between UMass Amherst, Dartmouth and
Lowell, and WHOI
Brian Levine, Prashant Shenoy
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts
Vision
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sensing: monitoring, measuring environment
increasingly important
 challenged environments: ocean floors, bays,
estuaries, rivers, forests, glaciers, mountaintops
Massachusetts/New England:
“.. [should] .. develop a system to
monitor ocean conditions to
ensure a health and growing
marine economy”
“It is crucial for business and
government to invest in research
to develop those areas because
the region’s success is so closely
tied to the ocean.”
NetSenCE
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Massachusetts Center for Networked
Sensing in Challenged Environments
Core technology mission: wireless networking
technologies and sensor platforms for challenged
environments.
 affordability,
robustness
 emphasis on water sensing
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Close collaboration with domain experts
 WHOI
ocean scientists, underwater surveillance
 UMass environmental scientists
Who we are:
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Brian Levine, Prashant
Shenoy: co-directors
UMass-Amherst CS : Mark
Corner, Deepak Ganesan, Jim
Kurose, Don Towsley, Arun
Venkatarmani
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About us
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sensor nets, embedded
systems, real-time computing,
wireless networking, data
management, performance,
expertise
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UMass-Dartmouth: Lou
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UMass-Lowell CS: Ben Liu
Woods Hole:
Lee Freitag, Jim Partan, Jim
Preisig, Andy Maffei
WHOI
leadership: technical
community (program
committees), centers and
programs (CASA, MS&T);
range of seniority
Goodman (SMast)
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broad technical expertise:
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multicampus
Building on Existing Collaborations
Joint research (publication), grants
WHOI PhD student at UMass/CS
2 UMass/CS undergrads at WHOI
joint research
joint research,
grant (IBM/ITA wireless),
former PhD student
Dartmouth
Related collaborations:
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Lowell
BBN (Cambridge): IBM/ITA; BBN code
on UMass DieselNet; joint
participation in NSF Future Internet Design (FIND/DTN)
BAE (Burlington): Darpa mobile ad hoc networks
General Dynamics (Pittsfield): ONR Littoral program
WHOI/UMass/UConn: joint NSF research infrastructure award
support from UMass Boston CESN
Others: Raytheon; Cisco (Boxboro); EMC; Intel; MS;
Work Plan/Budget
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NetSenCE: closer research
collaborations, joint future
proposals
1 year joint UMass/WHOI postdoctoral researcher
Half research scientist for
environmental connections
Faculty release time for proposal
development
multi-campus, weekly seminar
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graduate-level reading/research
Future funding opportunities
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DARPA, ONR: littoral sensing, SEANAV
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DARPA, HSARPA: port monitoring
NSF Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI)
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disruption-tolerant networks/mobility key innovation area
BBN awarded GENI coordinating role
NSF Cyber-Enabled Discovery, Innovation (CDI):
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UMass-Dartmouth ties to ONR
planned $750M NSF program linking physical and cyber worlds
“Broaden the Nation’s capability for innovation by developing a new
generation of computationally based discovery concepts and tools
to deal with complex, data-rich, and interacting systems.”
Possible state economic development funds
Networking in Challenged Environments
Technical Challenges:
 sparse
deployment
 short-radio ranges
 system suspension/ power
management
 node mobility
 fixed costs
 failures likely or untenable
 unreliable/non-existent
infrastructure
 application-driven utility
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