Collaborative Research-NeTS-NOSS: AutoNomouS netWorked sEnsoR systems (ANSWER)

协作研究-NETS-NOSS：自主网络传感器系统（答案）

• 批准号: 0721523
• 负责人: Scott Midkiff
• 金额: $ 21.01万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0721523&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; NeTS; NOSS; AutoNomouS

Aggregations of massively deployed sensors are expected to create sophisticated sensing, computation, communication and control platforms called Networked Sensor Systems (NSS) that will pervade society, revolutionizing the way in which we live and work. In order to scale, these systems must be largely autonomous, decentralized entities whose corporate resources can be made available to authorized users. Such autonomous, geographically-dispersed NSS are increasingly recognized as key to numerous applications ranging from healthcare to smart homes and homeland security. For example, autonomous NSS can assist first responders, often in inhospitable environments, by locating survivors, identifying danger areas and enhancing user awareness of the situation The resource-constrained sensors, the wireless communication medium, the large-scale deployment, combined with the mobility of users, the close interaction with the physical environment and the highly sensitive nature of mission-critical operations pose formidable challenges to autonomous NSS design. The key inter-related technical contributions of this project are: (1) Dynamic task-based networking supporting application-level tasks and queries while hiding resource-level details; (2) Smart AFN mobility subject to changing application requirements and network conditions; and (3) providing secure ANSWER operation and multi-level secure interactions with in-situ mobile users. ANSWER prototype can serve as a tool to explore mobile user behavior in ubiquitous networks under varying environmental and network conditions. This project will leverage programs at VT, UMBC, and ODU to actively recruit and involve under-represented groups in innovative multi-disciplinary hands-on experiments in ubiquitous networking, security and sensor systems. The research results will be disseminated via the project's Web site (http://www.nve.vt.edu/cias/cycarenet/ANSWER).

预计大量部署的传感器的聚合将创建称为网络传感器系统（NSS）的复杂传感，计算，通信和控制平台，这些平台将遍及社会，彻底改变我们的生活和工作方式。为了扩展规模，这些系统必须在很大程度上是自主的，分散的实体，其公司资源可以向授权用户提供。这种自主，地理上分散的NS越来越被认为是从医疗保健到智能家园和国土安全的众多应用的关键。例如，自主NSS可以通过定位幸存者，确定危险领域并提高对状况的用户意识来协助急救人员，无线通信媒介，大规模部署，与用户的移动性，与自动环境的紧密相互作用和高度敏感的挑战，对挑战的态度紧密相互作用。该项目的关键相关技术贡献是：（1）基于任务的动态网络支持应用程序级任务和查询，同时隐藏了资源级别的详细信息； （2）智能AFN移动性受到不断变化的应用要求和网络条件的影响； （3）提供安全的答案操作以及与原位移动用户的多层次安全互动。答案原型可以用作在不同的环境和网络条件下探索无处不在网络中移动用户行为的工具。该项目将利用VT，UMBC和ODU的计划积极招募，并涉及代表性不足的群体中的创新性多学科动手实验，用于无处不在的网络，安全和传感器系统。研究结果将通过该项目的网站（http://www.nve.vt.edu/cias/cycarenet/answer）传播。