Speaker: Dr. Arun K. Somani, Anson Marston Distinguish Professor, Iowa State University
Date: Thursday September 22, 2011
Registration: 06:30 p.m
Seminar:  07:00 p.m - 08:00 p.m
Location: Algonquin College, Room T129, T-Building, 1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
          Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Parking: Parking area # 9. Please respect restricted areas. No fee after 5:00 p.m.
Admission: Free.
Registration: Registration required. To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail W. Almuhtadi
             (almuhtadi@ieee.org)
Organizers: ComSoc/BTS/CES Ottawa Joint Chapter, PES Ottawa Chapter & Algonquin College Stud
Url: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/comsoc
Abstract: This talk introduces a theoretical and experimental program
to develop the inspection and fault detection technology needed to integrate
MAVs for persistent intelligence, reconnaissance, maintenance and surveillance
for obscured or logistically challenging assets in non-urban environments. 

The design is explained using a context of heterogeneous
deployment of wireless sensors for real-time
asset monitoring by anticipating exceptional conditions
and building the system to cope with them.
The system converges towards an error-free state with
self-stabilization, the ability to fall back
to a safe mode in a financially feasible manner.
This sophisticated mechanism requires a real-time
capacity estimation capability to sustain the quality-of-service,
which can be achieved by a distributed
sensor network. We discuss issues in design and information
propagation in such sensor clustered topology,
optimization for power-aware networking, and link and node
capacity assignment to achieve the desired goals.