Name:
PASTA
TItle:
Power Aware Sensing Tracking and Analysis
Description:
The Power Aware Sensing Tracking and Analysis (PASTA) project is a DARPA-funded project that is investigating power-efficient systems for unattended ground sensor (UGS) applications. One of the applications that the project studies the tracking of moving vehicles using acoustic sensors. The NESL lab is involved in studying the effect of hierachical networks on the tracking cost and performance. The low tier of the hierarhical network comprises of small resource-contrained nodes (tripwires) such as the Berkeley motes as tripwire nodes. Higher tier nodes (trackers) perform sophisticated signal processing such as beamforming in order to estiamate the location of a moving vehicle using acoustic sensors.
Tripwire nodes consume low power and operate continuously to detect interesting events such as vehicles entering the field of interest. Upon detection tripwires wake up the more capable tracker nodes that perform the actual tracking of the intersting event. For more information about the project please visit the official project web page at USC/ISI East.
Status:
Inactive Project
Main Research Area:
Power-aware Computing and Communications
Participants:
Documents:
- Computation Hierarchy for In-network Processing
Ramkumar Rengaswamy, Vlasios Tsiatsis, and Mani B. Srivastava.
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international conference on Wireless sensor networks and applications (WSNA 2003), September 2003. [ Details ]
- Computation Hierarchy for In-network Processing
Ramkumar Rengaswamy, Vlasios Tsiatsis, and Mani B. Srivastava.
ACM Mobile Networks and Applications, January 2005. [ Details ]
- Optimizing Sensor Networks in the Energy-Latency-Density Design Space
Curt Schurgers, Vlasios Tsiatsis, Saurabh Ganeriwal, and Mani B. Srivastava.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, January 2002. [ Details ]
- Topology Management for Sensor Networks: Exploiting Latency and Density
Curt Schurgers, Vlasios Tsiatsis, Saurabh Ganeriwal, and Mani B. Srivastava.
International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking & Computing (MobiHoc'02), June 2002. [ Details ]
- STEM: Topology Management for Energy Efficient Sensor Networks
Curt Schurgers, Vlasios Tsiatsis, and Mani B. Srivastava.
EEE Aerospace Conference, March 2002. [ Details ]
- On Communication Security in Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks
Sascha Slijepcevic, Miodrag Potkonjak, Vlasios Tsiatsis, Scott A. Zimbeck, and Mani B. Srivastava.
Eleventh IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE),, June 2002. [ Details ]
- Architecture strategies for energy-efficient packet forwarding in wireless sensor networks
Vlasios Tsiatsis, Scott A. Zimbeck, and Mani B. Srivastava.
Proceedings on International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED),, August 2001. [ Details ]
- On the Interaction of Network Characteristics and Collaborative Target Tracking in Sensor Networks
Vlasios Tsiatsis, and Mani B. Srivastava.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys),, November 2003. [ Details ]
- On the Interaction of Network Characteristics and Collaborative Target Tracking in Sensor Networks
Vlasios Tsiatsis, and Mani B. Srivastava.
NESL TR, April 2003. [ Details ]
Web Page
Back