MRI:Acquisition of a Laboratory Testbed for Networked Embedded Systems and Sensor Research

该项目获得了一个大型实验室测试平台，用于对嵌入式系统和传感器网络进行多机构、跨学科的实验研究，使研究能够：-多层模态传感器网络的设计;-传感器网络的数据管理问题; -嵌入式平台的内存管理问题; -嵌入式系统的数据管理问题。和-嵌入式和传感器系统的分层电源管理。这种跨学科的研究地址网络，操作系统，分布式系统，架构以及嵌入式系统和传感器网络中出现的移动的计算问题。预期的结果包括新的算法，协议和模型设计这样的系统。实验和原型的努力应该提供新的见解系统的设计问题。五个学院联盟（阿默斯特，霍利奥克山，史密斯，汉普郡，马萨诸塞州大学）将参与的基础设施。更广泛的影响：这个基础设施，促进多机构，跨学科和实验研究，应该有直接的影响本科生，促进学生的多样性。机构是坚实的;霍利奥克山是一个所有妇女的机构。这种合作使人们能够接触到高质量的研究，并应在课程开发的直接影响。许多接受服务的本科生应该继续读研究生。

This project, acquiring a large laboratory testbed for multi-institutional, cross-disciplinary, experimental research on embedded systems and sensor networks, enables research in the:-Design of multi-tier modal sensor networks;-Data management issues for sensor networks; -Memory management issues for embedded platforms; and -Hierarchical power management for embedded and sensor systems.This cross-disciplinary research addresses networking, operating systems, distributed systems, architecture, and mobile computing issues that arise in embedded systems and sensor networks. Anticipated results consist of novel algorithms, protocols, and models for designing such systems. The experimental and prototyping efforts should provide new insights into the system design issues.The Five College Consortium (Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Hampshire, and U Mass) will partake of the infrastructure.Broader Impact: This infrastructure, promoting multi-institutional, cross-disciplinary and experimental research, should have direct impact on undergraduates, promoting also student diversity. The institutions are solid; Mount Holyoke is an all women institution. The collaboration enables exposure to high-quality research and should have direct impact in curriculum development. Many of the undergraduates being serviced should continue unto graduate school.