Laboratory for Embedded Collaborative Systems (LECS) -- Research

• CENS: Center for Embedded Networked Sensing

• GALORE: Globally Ad-hoc, Locally Regular Embedded Systems
  • Sponsor: DARPA
  • Collaborators: UCLA Electrical Engineering

• SCADDS: Scalable Coordination Architectures for Deeply Distributed Systems
  • Sponsor: DARPA
  • Collaborators: USC/ISI

• SCOWR: Scalable Coordination for Wireless Robots
  • Sponsor: NSF
  • Collaborators: USC Robotics Research Group

• ITR
  • Sponsor: NSF
  • Collaborators: USC Robotics Research Group

• MICRO
  • Sponsor: Intel

Research Areas

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• Directed Diffusion
  • Two way diffusion for control (Vladimir, Tom)
  • Tiny diffusion (Deepak, Tom)
  • Congestion Control (Ben)
  • Service Models (Types of Service) (Yan)

• In-network processing
  • Compression structures (Deepak)
  • Adaptive networked processing (Chalermek)
  • Triggered processing (Denis, Hanbaio)

• Self-configuring systems
  • Self-configuring topologies (Alberto)
  • Ant-inspired algorithms (Daveey)
  • Self-measuring systems (Jerry)

• Location and Time Synchronization
  • Building coordinate systems based on precision ranging (Lew)
  • Self-configuring beacon systems (Niru)
  • Time synchronization for low-duty cycle systems (Jeremy)

• Architectural Issues
  • Global-local tradeoffs (group)
  • Programming primitives (group)

• Testbeds and infrastructure
  • Tiered Architecture (group)
  • Motenic and Motesic (Jeremy, Thanos)
  • Testbed Management and Configuration Tools (Alberto)
  • High-Level Simulator (Daveey, Alberto)
  • Measurement Tools
    • Snoopers (Vlad)
    • Octopus Project (Solomon)