The goal of this project is to design a general purpose architecture for high throughput, high fidelity applications in the sensor network domain.  More to come ...  We are currently targeting two applications: the CodeBlue Spaulding project in which we monitoring the limb movements and muscle activity of stroke patients during rehabilitation exercises, and the Volcano Monitoring project in which we investigate the use of wireless sensor networks for monitoring active volcanoes.

• Konrad Lorincz  ()
• Advisor: Matt Welsh  ()

Collaborators:

• Dr. Paolo Bonato - Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
• Todd Hester - Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
• Ben Kuris - Intel, Cambridge
• Leonidas Kontothanassis - Intel, Cambridge

Spaulding

• Why 3-axis gyros and accelerometers are necessary to estimate position and orientation of body segments.
  • Is it Feasible to Reconstruct Body Segment 3D Position and Orientation Using Accelerometer Data?, Daniele Giansanti, Velio Macellari, Giovanni Maccioni, and Aurelio Cappozzo, IEEE TBME 50(4), 476-483, 2003.
     
• The way to combine multiple sensors (accelerometers, gyros, and magnetometers).
  • Compensation of Magnetic Disturbances Improves Inertial and Magnetic Sensing of Human Body Segment Orientation, Daniel Roetenberg, Henk J. Luinge, Chris T. M. Baten, and Peter H. Veltink, IEEE TNSRE 13(3), 395405, 2005.
  • The Development and Test of a Device for the Reconstruction of 3D Position and Orientation by Means of Kinematic Sensor Assembly with Rate Gyroscopes and Accelerometers, Daniele Giansanti, Member, IEEE, Giovanni Maccioni, IEEE TBME 52(7), 1271-1277, 2005.
     
• How Paolo Bonato's group has been processing the accelerometer and EMG data so far.
  • Quantitative Measures of Functional Upper Limb Movement in Persons after Stroke, Bethany Knorr, Richard Hughes, Delsey Sherrill, Joel Stein, Metin Akay, and Paolo Bonato.
  • Sensor and Wearable/Ambulatory Technology and Applications: Adjusting DBS Settings To Optimize Parkinson's Control Therapy, Todd Hester, Richard Hughes, Delsey M. Sherrill, Shyamal Patel, Nancy Huggins, Alice Flaherty, David Standaert, Paolo Bonato.
  • Using Wearable Sensors to Measure Motor Abilities following Stroke, Todd Hester, Richard Hughes, Delsey M. Sherrill, Bethany Knorr, Metin Akay, Joel Stein, and Paolo Bonato, BSN'06.
     

High Throughput

• Collecting High-Rate Data Over Low-Rate Sensor Network Radios, B. Greenstein, A. Pesterev, C. Mar, E. Kohler, J. Judy, S. Farschi, D. Estrin, , CENS Technical Report 0055  [VanGo: TR]

Time Synchronization

• The Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol, Miklos Maroti, Branislav Kusy, Gyula Simon, Akos Ledeczi, SenSys'04.
• Fine-Grained Network Time Synchronization using Reference Broadcasts, Jeremy Elson, Lewis Girod and Deborah Estrin, OSDI'02.

Distributed data processing

• Collaborative Signal and Information Processing: An Information Directed Approach F. Zhao, J. Liu, J. Liu, L. Guibas, and J. Reich, Proc. IEEE, 2003.
• Scalable information-driven sensor querying and routing for ad hoc heterogeneous sensor networks, M. Chu, H. Haussecker, F. Zhao, Int'l J. High Performance Computing Applications, 16(3):90-110, Fall 2002.

Miscellaneous

• SATIRE: A Software Architecture for Smart AtTIRE, Raghu Ganti, Praveen Jayachandran, Tarek Abdelzaher, John Stankovic, MobySys 2006. [notes]
• Sensemble: A Wireless, Compact, Multi-User Sensor System for Interactive Dance, Ryan Aylward, Joseph A. Paradiso, NIME 2006.
• Trio: Enabling Sustainable and Scalable Outdoor Wireless Sensor Network Deployments, Prabal Dutta, Jonathan Hui, Jaein Jeong, Sukun Kim, Cory Sharp, Jay Taneja, Gilman Tolle, Kamin Whitehouse, and David Culler, IPSN'06.
• Click:  [pdf]
• SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services, Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October, 2001. [project web site]
• Sensor Networks for Medical Care, Victor Shnayder, Bor-rong Chen, Konrad Lorincz, Thaddeus R. F. Fulford-Jones, and Matt Welsh. Harvard University Technical Report TR-08-05, April 2005.
• Sensor Networks for Emergency Response: Challenges and Opportunities, Konrad Lorincz, David J. Malan, Thaddeus R. F. Fulford-Jones, Alan Nawoj, Antony Clavel, Victor Shnayder, Geoff Mainland, Steve Moulton, and Matt Welsh.  In IEEE Pervasive Computing, Special Issue on Pervasive Computing for First Response, Oct-Dec 2004.
• Deploying a Wireless Sensor Network on an Active Volcano, Geoff Werner-Allen, Konrad Lorincz, Mario Ruiz, Omar Marcillo, Jeff Johnson, Jonathan Lees, and Matt Welsh. In IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Data-Driven Applications in Sensor Networks, March/April 2006.
• WaveScope Proposal [PDF]

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