Maximilian NICOLAE

Title: Hardware and software architectures for mobile sensor networks

Supervisor: Professor Radu DOBRESCU

Start date: 2010

The thesis theme consist in designing and developing of a specialized architecture for processing and transmitting of information through radio channels, which will serve as infrastructure for developing of some mobile sensor networks used in many application, from monitoring of environmental parameters to healthcare assistance of persons with handicaps. The approached directions was those related to optimization of gauge, power consumption (autonomy), information processing towards efficient transmission, and also those related to reliability and fault tolerance. The realized device is developed around a digital signal processor (TMS320VC5509A) and has capabilities for real time image processing, as same as signal specific processing and coding for energy efficient communication.

Because in the mobile sensor networks field, applications requirements are very different and in most of the cases they are in contradiction, there is not an exact recipe for the proper architecture choice. This way, the entire thesis is thought to offer a guide for designers in order to make an underlined choice of the proper technologies and protocols. The thesis also deals with software aspects concerning management (including topological covering) and security issues, as same as modeling and simulation of mobile sensor networks.