Collaborative Research-NETS-NOSS: AutoNomouS netWorked sEnsoR Systems (ANSWER)

大规模部署的传感器的聚合有望创建复杂的传感，计算，通信和控制平台，称为网络传感器系统（NSS），将遍布社会，彻底改变我们的生活和工作方式。为了扩展，这些系统必须在很大程度上是自治的、分散的实体，其企业资源可以提供给授权用户。这种自主的、地理上分散的NSS越来越被认为是从医疗保健到智能家居和国土安全等众多应用的关键。例如，自主NSS可以通过定位幸存者、识别危险区域和增强用户对情况的意识来帮助第一响应者，通常在恶劣的环境中。资源受限的传感器、无线通信介质、大规模部署，结合用户的移动性，与物理环境的密切相互作用以及使命的高度敏感性-关键操作对自主NSS设计提出了严峻的挑战。该项目的关键的相互关联的技术贡献是：（1）动态的基于任务的网络支持应用级的任务和查询，同时隐藏资源级的细节;（2）智能AFN移动性，不断变化的应用程序的要求和网络条件;和（3）提供安全的ANSWER操作和多层次的安全交互与现场移动的用户。ANSWER原型可以作为一个工具，探索移动的用户行为在无处不在的网络在不同的环境和网络条件。该项目将利用VT，UMBC和ODU的计划，积极招募并参与无处不在的网络，安全和传感器系统的创新多学科实践实验。研究结果将通过该项目的网址（http：//www.nve.vt.edu/cias/cycarenet/ANSWER）传播。

Aggregations of massively deployed sensors are expected to create sophisticated sensing, computation, communication and control platforms called Networked Sensor Systems (NSS) that will pervade society, revolutionizing the way in which we live and work. In order to scale, these systems must be largely autonomous, decentralized entities whose corporate resources can be made available to authorized users. Such autonomous, geographically-dispersed NSS are increasingly recognized as key to numerous applications ranging from healthcare to smart homes and homeland security. For example, autonomous NSS can assist first responders, often in inhospitable environments, by locating survivors, identifying danger areas and enhancing user awareness of the situation The resource-constrained sensors, the wireless communication medium, the large-scale deployment, combined with the mobility of users, the close interaction with the physical environment and the highly sensitive nature of mission-critical operations pose formidable challenges to autonomous NSS design. The key inter-related technical contributions of this project are: (1) Dynamic task-based networking supporting application-level tasks and queries while hiding resource-level details; (2) Smart AFN mobility subject to changing application requirements and network conditions; and (3) providing secure ANSWER operation and multi-level secure interactions with in-situ mobile users. ANSWER prototype can serve as a tool to explore mobile user behavior in ubiquitous networks under varying environmental and network conditions. This project will leverage programs at VT, UMBC, and ODU to actively recruit and involve under-represented groups in innovative multi-disciplinary hands-on experiments in ubiquitous networking, security and sensor systems. The research results will be disseminated via the project's Web site (http://www.nve.vt.edu/cias/cycarenet/ANSWER).