Thurs, 27 Oct
405 Soda
11:30am - 1:00pm

Title: "EnviroSuite: An Environmentally Immersive Programming System for Sensor
Networks"

Speaker: Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois


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Abstract:
Facilitating sensor network programming is an increasingly important
concern that requires appropriate high-level abstractions and supporting
middleware. This talk describes the EnviroSuite programming system.
EnviroSuite is centered around the notion of environmentally immersive
programming; a new computing paradigm for sensor-network applications
which significantly simplifies the development of distributed
environmental monitoring and tracking software. Environmentally
immersive programming systems create a logical address space in which
individual addressable entities can either be logical objects, developed
by the application programmer or (representations of) physical objects
in the external environment. The latter represent the environment to the
programmer in a convenient and accessible form. Challenges and
performance optimizations are presented that lead to Lighweight
Envirosuite, recently tested in a large sensor networks deployment.
Results show that environmentally immersive programming can be
efficiently implemented on the motes and significantly reduces
programming effort.

Bio:
Tarek Abdelzaher received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and
Computer Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1990
and 1994 respectively. He received his Ph.D. from the University of
Michigan in 1999 on Quality of Service Adaptation in Real-Time Systems.
He has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia until
his promotion with tenure in 2005, where he founded the Software
Predictability Group. He is currently an Associate Professor at the
Department of Computer Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign. He has authored/coauthored three book chapters and more than
60 refereed publications in leading conferences and journals in several
fields including real-time computing, distributed systems, sensor
networks, and control. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Mobile Computing, the Journal of Real-Time Systems, the
International Journal of Embedded Systems and the Ad Hoc Networks
Journal, as well as Editor of ACM SIGBED Review. He was Guest Editor for
the Journal of Computer Communications and the Journal of Real-Time
Systems, and is Co-Editor of IEEE Distributed Systems Online. He served
on numerous technical program committees in real-time computing,
networking, distributed systems, sensor networks, multimedia, and mobile
computing, among others. He also held several conference organization
positions including Program Chair of RTAS 2004, Sensor Networks Vice
Chair of RTSS 2005 and ICDCS 2006, Systems Vice Chair of DCoSS 2006,
Finance Chair of IPSN 2006 and SenSys 2006, and General Chair of RTAS
2005. Abdelzaher's research interests lie broadly in embedded and
real-time systems including sensor networks. Tarek Abdelzaher is a
member of IEEE and ACM.