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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Wireless Sensor Systems - Tom Rees\, Churchill 
 College
DTSTART:20150218T190000Z
DTEND:20150218T194000Z
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CONTACT:Matthew Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Wireless sensor systems are a powerful tool to enable reliable
  monitoring and analysis of unknown and untested environments. Examples in
 clude water quality monitoring\, weather prediction and machine health mon
 itoring. They also give rise to a multitude of interesting and challenging
  networking problems in the lower layers of the OSI network stack such as 
 designing low-power layer-2 and -3 protocols.\n\nIn this talk I shall star
 t by giving an introduction to wireless sensor systems followed by the cha
 llenges faced in the data-link layer and how they shaped protocol design. 
 Finally I shall look at why existing network layer protocols are unsuitabl
 e in sensor systems and what is used in their place.\n \nAfter the talk yo
 u should have a basic understanding of what wireless sensor systems are an
 d their applications\; an understanding of the problems with designing med
 ium access control and routing protocols\; and knowledge of successful pro
 tocols in sensor systems such as S-MAC and directed diffusion.
LOCATION:Wolfson Hall\, Churchill College
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