Agenda:

6:00 PM Social
6:30 PM Dinner 
7:00 PM Presentation

Abstract:

We describe a theoretical and experimental program to develop the inspection and monitoring functions using various sensors along with development and usage of needed visual sensor and MAV technology for persistent intelligence, reconnaissance, maintenance and surveillance for obscured or logistically challenging assets in non-urban environments such as US Power Grid. The system is self-monitoring. This sophisticated mechanism requires a real-time operation to sustain the quality-of-service. We discuss issues in design and information propagation in such sensor clustered topology, optimization for power-aware networking, and link and node capacity assignment to achieve the desired goals.

Professor Arun Somani, IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer

Biography:

Arun K. Somani is currently Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University, Ames, IA. He earned his MSEE and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1983 and 1985, respectively. He has worked as Scientific Officer for Govt. of India, New Delhi from 1974 to 1982 and as a faculty member at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA from 1985 to 1997.

 Professor Somani's research interests are in the area of computer system design and architecture, dependable computing and networking, WDM-based optical networking, and reconfigurable and parallel computer systems and use of information technology for infrastructure applications. He has ~300 technical papers, several book chapters, one book, and has supervised more than 60 MS and more than 25 PhD students. He has served on several program committees in various capacities, IEEE distinguished visitor and IEEE distinguished tutorial speaker. He has delivered several key note speeches, tutorials and distinguished and invited talks all over the world. In 1999, he was elected a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to “theory and applications of computer networks.” He has been awarded a Distinguished Scientist member grade of ACM in 2006.