CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Body Area Sensor Networks: A Holistic Approach from Silicon to Users

身体区域传感器网络：从硅到用户的整体方法本研究的目标是开发新的原则和技术，用于在高度动态的物理环境中使用小型化的，能量受限的设备进行自适应操作。该方法是使用整体跨层解决方案，同时解决系统的各个方面，从低级硬件设计到高级通信和数据融合算法，再到顶层应用程序。特别是，这项工作的重点是身体区域传感器网络作为新兴的网络物理system.The智力价值包括产生新的原则，关于如何网络系统必须设计，以不断适应和响应快速变化的物理环境，传感数据，并在一个节能的方式应用上下文。新的跨层技术将被创建，使用整体的自下而上和自上而下的设计-从硅到用户，再回来。该项目将采用三种尖端技术设计和制造一种新型的片上系统硬件平台，将通信和计算成本降低几个数量级。该项目的广泛影响将使体域网络的广泛应用和社会效益成为可能，包括提高医疗质量和降低医疗成本。该技术将对任何使用能量受限无线设备的网络物理系统产生广泛影响。一个新的系列研讨会将汇集来自许多领域的专家（包括领域专家，如医生和医疗保健专业人员）。这项工作涉及医疗保健的关键方面有可能吸引妇女和少数民族进入计算机领域。

Body Area Sensor Networks: A Holistic Approach from Silicon to Users The objective of this research is to develop new principles and techniques for adaptive operation in highly dynamic physical environments, using miniaturized, energy-constrained devices. The approach is to use holistic cross-layer solutions that simultaneously address all aspects of the system, from low-level hardware design to higher-level communication and data fusion algorithms to top-level applications. In particular, this work focuses on body area sensor networks as emerging cyber-physical systems.The intellectual merit includes producing new principles regarding how cyber systems must be designed in order to continually adapt and respond to rapidly changing physical environments, sensed data, and application contexts in an energy-efficient manner. New cross-layer technologies will be created that use a holistic bottom-up and top-down design -- from silicon to user and back again. A novel system-on-a-chip hardware platform will be designed and fabricated using three cutting-edge technologies to reduce the cost of communication and computation by several orders of magnitude.The broad impact of this project will enable the wide range of applications and societal benefits promised by body area networks, including improving the quality and reducing the costs of healthcare. The technology will have broad implications for any cyber physical system that uses energy constrained wireless devices. A new seminar series will bring together experts from many fields (including domain experts, such as physicians and healthcare professionals). The key aspects of this work that deal with healthcare have the potential to attract women and minorities to the computer field.