SensorNets 2009: The First International School on Cyber-Physical and Sensor Networks
Monastir, Tunisia, December 17-21, 2009
List of Lecturers
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Research Areas
IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee Standard Protocol Stack, Medium Access Control Protocols, Real-Time, Quality of Service, COTS Technologies.
Short Biography
Mário Alves was born in 1968 and has a Degree (1991), a MSc (1995) and a PhD (2003) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Porto, Portugal. He is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (ISEP/IPP) and a Research Associate of the CISTER/IPP-HURRAY Research Unit, focusing on real-time, distributed and embedded computing systems. He participated in several international projects related to industrial communication systems (e.g. CCE-CNMA, RFieldbus). He has been serving as a reviewer and publishing in top conferences (e.g. RTSS, ECRTS, ICDCS, OPODIS, MASS) and journals (e.g. IEEE TII, Elsevier ComNet, Springer RTSJ) in his expertise areas, got best paper awards (e.g. ECRTS’07) and supervised the EWSN'09 best MSc Thesis award. He actively participated in the organization of several international conferences and workshops, e.g. IEEE WFCS’00 and ECRTS’03. His current research interests are mainly devoted to improving quality-of-service (QoS) in wireless sensor networks by using standard and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology (http/www.hurray.isep.ipp.pt/ART-WiSe, http://www.open-ZB.net). He is involved in international projects on networked embedded systems (ArtistDesign), cooperating objects (CONET), large-scale embedded monitoring using wireless sensor networks (EMMON) and cyber-physical systems for monitoring critical physical infrastructures (under the PT-CMU program).
Research Areas
Security in WSNs, Distributed computing systems, fault-tolerance
Short Biography
Gianluca Dini received his ”Laurea” degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1990, and his PhD in Computer Engineering from Scuola Superiore ”S. Anna”, Pisa, Italy, in 1995. From 1993 to 1994 he was Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Twente, The Netherlands. From 1993 to 1999 he was Assistant Professor at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria della Informazione, Elettronica, Informatica, Telecomunicazioni of the University of Pisa, where he is now Associate Professor. His research interests are in the field of distributed computing systems, with particular reference to security and fault-tolerance. Currently he is working on security in networked embedded systems and intrusion detection in multi-agent systems. He has published more than fifty papers in international conferences and journals and has participated to many projects funded by the Commission of the European Community, the Italian Government and private companies.
Research Areas
Embedded operating systems, optimizing compilers, performance evaluation of computer systems
Short Biography
Antoine Fraboulet is an associate professor at INSA Lyon in
France since 2002 where he works in the CITI Laboratory. He is also a member of the INRIA research center in the Amazones team. Antoine
Fraboulet main research interests include several aspects of mobile embedded systems. He is particularly interested in optimizing
compilers, operating systems and hardware/software interfaces for embedded computing systems.
Research Areas
System Software and Programming Abstractions for Sensor Networks; Distributed Blackbox Testing; Web Services and Message Oriented Middleware;
Short Biography
Vlado Handziski received his diploma (1998) and MSc (2002) degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia. Since 2002 he is member of the Telecommunication Networks Group at the Technische Universität Berlin, working on several EC-funded projects in the area of wireless sensor networks like EYES, WiSeNts and CONET.
His research interests are focused on architectural aspects of sensornets and the design of system abstractions that reconcile the tension between application-specific optimization and the need for portability and reusability. His work has been published at top conferences in the field like SOSP and EWSN.
He has extensive experience in developing and testing sensornet applications and system software on several hardware platforms. He designed the TWIST testbed architecture and co-developed its instance at TU Berlin, one of the largest indoor sensornet testbeds.
He is a founding member of the TinyOS Core Working Group and principal designer of the Hardware Abstraction Architecture in TinyOS 2.x.
Research Areas
Wireless sensor and ad hoc networks, coverage and connectivity, network security, mobility management, energy-efficient medium access control.
Short Biography
Antoine Gallais received MSc (2004) and PhD (2007) degrees in computer science from the University of Lille, France.
In 2008, he joined the Image Sciences, Computer Sciences and Remote Sensing Lab (LSIIT), located in the University of Strasbourg, France, where he is currently an associate professor.
His main research interests lie in the areas of wireless sensor and mobile ad hoc networking, mobility management and network security.
He is especially interested in localized and distributed solutions for sensing coverage by connected sets, energy-efficient medium access control and routing in wireless sensor networks.
He is involved in the french national project, Senslab, whose goal is to open a large-scale wireless sensor network testbed, for the needs of research and teaching communities.
He is also investigating new sensor communication solutions for home automation and tele-surveillance for remote medical care purposes.
Up to date information can be later found at http://clarinet.u-strasbg.fr/~gallais.
Research Areas
IEEE 802.15.4; Quality of Service; Interference Detection/Mitigation; Embedded Operating Systems
Short Biography
Jan-Hinrich Hauer is received a Diplom degree with distinction in computer science in 2005 from the Technical University Berlin, Germany. Since 2006 he is member of the Telecommunication Networks Group at Technical University Berlin. He is chair of the TinyOS IEEE 802.15.4 Working Group (http://tinyos.stanford.edu:8000/15.4_WG), which aims to develop and maintain a platform-independent, standard-compliant implementation of the IEEE 802.15.4-2006 MAC for the TinyOS 2 operating system. He is also member of the TinyOS Core and TinyOS ZigBee working groups. He has worked on the EC-funded wireless sensor network projects "EYES"
and "ANGEL" and is involved in the CONET European Network of Excellence,
His research interests are focused on the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC, improving its QoS and achieving robustness against interference in the 2.4 GHz ISM band. He has extensive practical experience in developing protocols and system software for several sensor network mote platforms.
Research Areas
IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee Standard Protocol Stack, Medium Access Control Protocols, Real-Time, Link Quality Estimation, Simulation and Modeling of WSNs, Quality-of-Service, Mobility, Deterministic and Stochastic Performance of WSNs, Large-Scale WSN Applications.
Short Biography
Anis Koubaa is currently (Since Sept. 2006) an assistant-professor at Al-Imam Mohamed bin Saud Islamic University (Riyadh) in the College of Computer Science and Information Systems and a Research Associate at the IPP-HURRAY! CISTER Research Group (Porto).
He received the PhD degree in computer science from National Polytechnic Institute of Lorrainne, Nancy (France) in 2004, during which he was a PhD candidate with TRIO research group of INRIA/LORIA.
He is actively working on the design
of large-scale wireless sensor netwoks and cyber-physical systems while maintaining QoS, Security, Mobility and Reliability. He is particularly interested in the assessment and improvement of the IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee standard protocol stack for large-scale wireless sensor networks.
He has driven the research efforts in the context of the ART-WiSe and open-ZB research frameworks that have contributed to the release of an open-source toolset of the IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee protocol stack, available on www.open-ZB.net
Anis Koubaa is also the chair of the TinyOS ZigBee Working Group, whose purpose is achieving a standard-compliant open-source implementation of ZigBee over TinyOS. In addition, he is involved in the CONET European Network of Excellence, in particular with the research cluster COTS-based Architecture for QoS in Large-Scale Distributed Embedded Systems.
Anis Koubaa has obtained the Best Paper Award in ECRTS 2007 conference. He has also been the program chair of the 7th international workshop on real-time networks in 2008, and has been involved as TPC member in several reputed international conferences and reviewer in several top-ranked journals.
Research Areas
WSN programming; distributed processing on WSNs; verification of distributed software
Short Biography
Luca Mottola is a post-doctoral researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS). Luca completed his Ph.D. at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) with the thesis "Programming Wireless Sensor Networks: from Physical to Logical Neighborhoods'', for which he recently received the "2009 EWSN/CONET Best Ph.D. Thesis Award". The results of his research have been published at prestigious conferences in the field (e.g., IPSN/SPOT). He has also been involved in several WSN deployments, where the results of his research have been used to build efficient real-world WSNs. His expertise in building WSN software was also demonstrated in research demos at top conferences, e.g., SenSys, where he received the Best Demo Award in 2007. A successful and widely acknowledged tutorial on WSN programming is also among his major contributions to the field. You can find more information at www.sics.se/~luca.
Research Areas
Sensor and mobile ad hoc networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded operating systems, smart objects, RFID technologies.
Short Biography
David Simplot-Ryl received the Graduate Engineer degree in computer science, automation, electronic and electrical engineering, a MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Lille, France, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. In 1998, he joined the Fundamental Computer Science Laboratory of Lille (LIFL), France, where he is currently professor. He receives the Habilitation degree from University of Lille, France, in 2003. His research interests include sensor and mobile ad hoc networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded operating systems, smart objects and RFID technologies. Recently, he mainly contributes to international standardization about RFID tag identification protocols in partnership with Gemplus and TagSys companies. He writes scientific papers, book chapters and patents and he received Best paper award at 9th Intl. Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC 2004) and at 2nd International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2006). Since 2008, he is scientific chair of INRIA Lille Nord Europe research centre.
Research Areas
Advanced collaborative signal/image processing techniques in wireless sensor networks, Localization, Bayesian techniques for source separation
Short Biography
Hichem Snoussi was born in Bizerta, Tunisia, in 1976. He received the diploma degree in electrical engineering from the Ecole Superieure d'Electricite (Supelec), Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in 2000. He also received the DEA degree and the Ph.D. in signal processing from the University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Between 2003 and 2004, he was postdoctoral researcher at IRCCyN, Institut de Recherches en Communications et Cybernétiques de Nantes. He has spent short periods as visiting scientist at the Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan and Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at the Institute of Living in USA. Since 2005, he is associate professor at the University of Technology of Troyes, France. Since January 2008, he is leading research group "Surveillance" of LM2S laboratory. He is in charge of the regional research program S3 (System Security and Safety) of the CPER 2007-2013 and the CapSec plateform (wireless embedded sensors for security). He is the principal investigator of an ANR-Blanc project (mv-EMD), a CRCA project (new partnership and new technologies) and a GDR-ISIS young researcher project. He is partner of many ANR projects, GIS, strategic UTT programs. He obtained the national doctoral and research supervising award PEDR 2008-2012.
Research Areas
IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee protocol, TinyOS, Localization, Sensor Network Programming
Short Biography
Ricardo Severino was born in 1982 and has a Degree (2006), and a MSc (2008) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto – School of Engineering (ISEP/IPP). Since 2006, he has been working in the areas of distributed computing systems, real-time communications, and particularly in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks, namely on improving quality-of-service (QoS) in WSNs by using standard and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology, at the CISTER/IPP-HURRAY!
Research Group. In this line, he has been actively participating in the ART-WiSe (http://artwise.cister-isep.info) and Open-ZB (http://www.open-zb.net) research frameworks, as well as in international projects such as ArtistDesign (FP7 NoE on Embedded System Design), CONET (FP7 NoE on Cooperating Objects), and EMMON (FP7 JU on Embedded Monitoring).
He is also a founding member and contributor of the 15.4 and ZigBee TinyOS Working Groups. Recently, his MSc Thesis work was awarded with the EWSN'09 Best MSc Thesis Award at the prestigious European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN'09). Notably, his TinyOS implementation of the IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee protocols is being used as a reference by many people worldwide, both from the academic and industrial communities.
He has several publications in reputed conferences (e.g. MASS, RTCSA, ECRTS) and journals (e.g. IEEE TII) and has served as a reviewer for several conferences (e.g. IEEE ETFA, SUTC and VTC).
Research Areas
Wireless sensor networks, security, mobility management, computer networks, performance evaluation of computer systems, and algorithms for combinatorial optimization
Short Biography
Pr. Habib Youssef received a Diplôme d'Ingénieur en Informatique from the Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, University of El-Manar, Tunisia in June 1982 and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Minnesota, USA, in January 1990. From September 1990 to January 2001 he was a Faculty member of the computer engineering department of King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia (Assistant Professor from 1990 to 1995 and Associate Professor from September 1995 to January 2001). From February 2001 to June 2002, he was a Maitre de Conférences en informatique at the Faculté des Sciences de Monastir (FSM), University of Monastir, Tunisia. From July 2002 to August 2005, he served as the Director of the Institut Supérieur d’Informatique et Mathematiques of the University of Monastir. He is currently serving as a Professor of computer science and Director of the Institut Supérieur d’Informatique et des Technologies de Communication, Hammam Sousse, University of Sousse, Tunisia.
Dr. Habib Youssef has over 130 publications to his credit in the form of books, book chapters, and journal and conference papers. He is the author with S. Sait of two books, (1) "VLSI Physical Design Automation: Theory and Practice", McGraw-Hill 1995, (also co-published by IEEE Press 1995), and reprinted with corrections by World Scientific in 1999, and (2) "Iterative Computer Algorithms with Applications in Engineering", IEEE CS Press 1999, and since 2003 published by John Wiley & Sons, which has also been translated into Japanese. His current research interests are computer networks, performance evaluation of computer systems, and algorithms for combinatorial optimization.
General Co-Chairs
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Mohamed Abid
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David Simplot-Ryl
(IRCICA/LIFL, France)
Program Co-Chairs
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Anis Koubâa
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Habib M. Ammari
(WiSeMAN Research Lab, Hofstra University, USA)
Publicity Co-Chairs
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Petr Jurcik
Nuno Pereira
Marco Zuniga
Posters & Demos Co-Chairs
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Mounir Frikha
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Ye-Qiong Song
Awards Co-Chairs
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Habib Youssef
(Prince Research Unit, Tunisia)
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Bjorn Andersson
(CISTER Research Unit, Portugal)
Awards Sponsor Chair
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Mohssen Alabbadi
(KACST, Saudi Arabia)
Contact Information
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Anis Koubâa
aska at isep dot ipp dot pt
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