Exploiting parallelism and dynamic reconfiguration in sensor networks

• Grant number: 08/05346-4
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants
• Start date: November 01, 2008
• End date: October 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computer Systems
• Principal Investigator: Jó Ueyama
• Grantee: Jó Ueyama
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: São Carlos
• Associated research grant(s): 10/11252-2 - Integrating sensor, mesh and internet networks: a case study on river monitoring, AV.EXT
• Associated scholarship(s): 12/12061-1 - Data Dissemination in the Next Generation Intelligent Vehicular Networks, BP.PD; 12/08020-8 - Monitoring urban rivers using Wireless Sensor Networks and Web Services, BP.IC

Abstract

This project proposes the use of FlexPar to exploit parallelism and dynamic reconfiguration in sensor networking environments. FlexPar was devised over my post-doctoral (PD) research at UNICAMP and is a middleware that creates parallel applications at runtime. The project plans to continue the work that I have started over my PD studies that was financially supported by FAPESP. This financial support was ended because I was appointed as a Lecturer at the University of São Paulo, since May/2008. The work in this project is aimed at exploiting the use of FlexPar in environments where resources are particularly scarce. Such environment includes sensor nodes and embedded devices where memory availability and CPU power are limited. The key question is to find out whether parallelism can be taken into account in these kinds of environments. The project also comprehends the work to exploit dynamic reconfiguration in the same kind of environment. The goal of this particular research is to provide a platform in which applications is adaptable to the current context at runtime. This will enable us to save memory or load a new policy according to the needs of the target environment and application domain. The work in this project will be carried out at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (EACH/USP), where I am currently affiliated to. This project will initially be formed by undergraduates students, however graduate students will potentially join this work once post-doctoral studies is established at EACH/USP. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GONCALVES, VINICIUS P.; DE ALMEIDA NERIS, VANIA P.; SERAPHINI, SIBELIUS; DIAS, TERESA C. M.; PESSIN, GUSTAVO; JOHNSON, THIENNE; UEYAMA, JO. Providing adaptive smartphone interfaces targeted at elderly people: an approach that takes into account diversity among the elderly. UNIVERSAL ACCESS IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY, v. 16, n. 1, p. 129-149, MAR 2017. (12/22550-0, 14/19076-0, 08/05346-4)

HUGHES, DANIEL; THOELEN, KLAAS; HORRE, WOUTER; MATTHYS, NELSON; DEL CID, JAVIER; MICHIELS, SAM; HUYGENS, CHRISTOPHE; JOOSEN, WOUTER; UEYAMA, JO. Building Wireless Sensor Network Applications with LooCI. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOBILE COMPUTING AND MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS, v. 2, n. 4, p. 27-pg., 2010-10-01. (09/01881-5, 08/05346-4)

UEYAMA, JO; MADEIRA, EDMUNDO R. M.; TAIANI, FRANCOIS; CAMARGO, RAPHAEL Y.; GRACE, PAUL; COULSON, GEOFF. EXPLOITING A GENERIC APPROACH TO CONSTRUCT COMPONENT-BASED SYSTEMS SOFTWARE IN LINUX ENVIRONMENTS. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING, v. 20, n. 6, p. 843-873, SEP 2010. (06/06576-8, 08/05346-4)

HUGHES‚ D.; UEYAMA‚ J.; MENDIONDO‚ E.; MATTHYS‚ N.; HORRÉ‚ W.; MICHIELS‚ S.; HUYGENS‚ C.; JOOSEN‚ W.; MAN‚ K.L.; GUAN‚ S.U.. A middleware platform to support river monitoring using wireless sensor networks. Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, v. 17, n. 2, p. 85-102, 2011. (08/05346-4, 09/01881-5)

HUGHES, DANNY; MAN, KA LOK; LEE, KEVIN; UEYAMA, JO; IEEE. A Wireless Sensor Network Based Green Marketplace for Electrical Appliances. SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUTURE NETWORKS: ICFN 2010, v. N/A, p. 5-pg., 2010-01-01. (09/01881-5, 08/05346-4)

BEDER, DELANO MEDEIROS; UEYAMA, JO; DE ALBUQUERQUE, JOAO PORTO; CHAIM, MARCOS LORDELLO. FlexFT: A Generic Framework for Developing Fault-Tolerant Applications in the Sensor Web. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2013. (08/57870-9, 08/05346-4, 08/58161-1)

PESSIN, GUSTAVO; OSORIO, FERNANDO S.; SOUZA, JEFFERSON R.; UEYAMA, JO; COSTA, FAUSTO G.; WOLF, DENIS F.; DIMITROVA, DESISLAVA; BRAUN, TORSTEN; VARGAS, PATRICIA A.. INVESTIGATION ON THE EVOLUTION OF AN INDOOR ROBOTIC LOCALIZATION SYSTEM BASED ON WIRELESS NETWORKS. APPLIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, v. 27, n. 8, p. 743-758, SEP 14 2013. (08/57870-9, 08/05346-4)

BEDER, DELANO MEDEIROS; UEYAMA, JO; DE ALBUQUERQUE, JOAO PORTO; CHAIM, MARCOS LORDELLO. FlexFT: A Generic Framework for Developing Fault-Tolerant Applications in the Sensor Web. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS, v. N/A, p. 12-pg., 2013-01-01. (08/58161-1, 08/57870-9, 08/05346-4)

UEYAMA, JO; HUGHES, DANNY; GRACE, PAUL; MADEIRA, EDMUNDO R. M.; UEYAMA, J; HUGHES, D; LEE, K. Exploiting Safe Parallelism in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Generic and Reconfigurable Approach. 2012 IEEE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORKED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS FOR EVERY APPLICATION (NESEA), v. N/A, p. 7-pg., 2012-01-01. (08/05346-4)