Application Development and Protocol Design

An additional field of interest is the design and development of applications and protocols for the units active in tactical scenarios. Both situational awareness and appropriate command/control require the collection of sensor data, the reliable transportation of the sensor data to the command station and sensor data fusion. Thus, distributed applications with a strong focus on sensor data fusion (in particular: tracking) have to be designed, implemented, and evaluated. Robust and optimized operation of this kind of applications requires parameterization and optimization of the protocols used. To ensure practicability, the applications and protocols designed are tested in maneuvers.

Projects

• Enquête - Entwicklung eines preiswerten Gefahrstoffsensors für Massenanwendungen [2009-2012]
• Underwater Networks [2009-2012]
• Transportlayer Adaptations for Sensor Datafusion Applications [2009-2010]
• Mobiles Führungs- und Kommunikationssystem für Kriseneinsätze mit Unterstützung durch unbemannte Aufklärung (MOKKA) [2008]
• Linkqualitätsbasiertes Routing in drahtlosen Ad-hoc-Netzen (WNET) [2006-2007]
• IPonAir - Next Generation Wireless Routing [2001-2004]

Key Publications

• Nils Aschenbruck, Christoph Fuchs
       “An Integrated Simulation Environment for Sensor Data Fusion Applications in Wireless Mesh Networks”
       accepted for the Military Communications Conference
       MILCOM, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Nov. 7–11, 2011.


• Nils Aschenbruck, Jan Bauer, Raphael Ernst, Christoph Fuchs, Jonathan Kirchhoff
       “A Mesh-based Command and Control Sensing System for Public Safety Scenarios”
      Demo accepted for the 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
      SenSys, Seattle, Washington, USA, Nov. 1–4, 2011.


• Nils Aschenbruck, Jan Bauer, Raphael Ernst, Christoph Fuchs, Jonathan Kirchhoff
       “Deploying a Mesh-based Command and Control Sensing System in a Disaster Area Maneuver”
      Poster accepted for the 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
      SenSys, Seattle, Washington, USA, Nov. 1–4, 2011.


• Nils Aschenbruck, Christoph Fuchs, Sascha Jopen, Tim Schneider
       Demonstration of the Sensor Data Transmission and Management Protocol (STMP)
       Demo accepted for the IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
       LCN, Bonn, Germany, Oct. 4–7, 2011.       [IEEEexplore]


• Nils Aschenbruck, Christoph Fuchs
       "STMP - Sensor Data Transmission and Management Protocol"
       Proc. of the 36th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
       LCN, Bonn, Germany, Oct. 4–7, 2011.


• Michael Gerharz, Christian de Waal, Peter Martini, Paul James
  A Cooperative Nearest Neighbours Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
  Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 28, No. 3-4, pp. 317-331, March 2005, [pdf].

• Michael Gerharz, Christian de Waal, and Peter Martini
  How To Discover Optimal Routes In Wireless Multihop Networks
  Proc. of the 6th IFIP IEEE International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks
  MWCN, Oct. 2004, pp. 323 – 334.

• Michael Gerharz, Christian de Waal, Peter Martini, Paul James
  Strategies for Finding Stable Paths in Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
  Proc. of the 28th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
  LCN, Oct. 2003, pp. 130 – 139, [pdf].

For further information please contact: tacnet@REMOVETHISPART.cs.uni-bonn.de