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ExScal Open House - February 1, 2005

A Recap of ExScal: 1st Extreme Scale Demonstration & Experiments

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Authored By Anish Arora and the ExScal Team on 02/01/2005
This presentation provides a brief history of the ExScal project from its "A Line in the Sand" start to the final demo in Florida.


Cleanpoint and PI meeting - December 18, 2004

The First ExScal Demonstration & Experiments

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Authored By Anish Arora, and the OSU ExScal Team on 12/18/2004
This document describes the final exscal demo in detail.


ExScal Technology Transfer Process

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Authored By Rajiv Ramnath on 12/16/2004
This presentation sets forth project goals to
  • Transfer the knowledge in a validated manner
    • Domain, architecture, components, technology
  • Manage the process for successful delivery
    • Continuously communicate progression and date to closure
    • Quickly identify and deal with risks
Such that New folks who know little about ExScal can easily understand the technology.


ExScal Clean Point Introduction

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Authored By Rajiv Ramnath on 12/14/2004
This document contains the agenda for the ExScal final demo.


Experience in Network Programming

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Authored By Sandeep Kulkarni, Limin Wang, and Mahesh Arumugam
This presentation discuses goals and protocol for network reprogramming. The protocols discussed are:
  • MNP
    • Designed for CSMA based networks with unknown topology
    • Targeted towards high-density networks
  • Infuse
    • Designed for TDMA based networks
    • Targeted towards low-density deployed networks


Network (Re)Programming Demonstration

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Authored By Sandeep Kulkarni, Limin Wang, Mahesh Arumugam
The presentation talks about reprogramming all sensors in a network with a program using MPN and Infuse. It describes a demo setup for each.


DARPA Visit to describe Clean Point goals - September 20, 2004

September ExScal Report

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Authored By Anish Arora on 09/20/2004
This presentation contains updates on sensors and detectors, development status, tier 1 localization, tier 1 reprogramming, the tier 1 trusted base, tier 2 services, and integration status.


IPT - August 30, 2004

Acoustic Breakout Session

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Authored on 08/30/2004
This presentation covers methods for reducing radio power.


ExScal Final Demo Site

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Authored By Rajiv Ramnath on 08/30/2004
This presentation describes the environment of test area at the final demo site.


ExScal Introduction

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Authored By Rajiv Ramnath on 08/30/2004
This Presentation covers the agenda for the August 29 -30, 2004 ExScal Meeting.


ExScal IPT Invitation

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Authored on 08/30/2004
This document described the agenda and location information for the August 30, 2004 ExScal Meeting.


ExScal Process

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Authored By Rajiv Ramnath on 08/30/2004
This presentation provides a plan and some observations of the ExScal process.


ExScal Timeline

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Authored By Rajiv Ramnath on 08/30/2004
This presentation shows a timeline with checkpoints for the project from August 30, 2004 through the Final Demonstration in December 2004.


Factory Image Breakout Session

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Authored on 08/30/2004
This presentation provides some information of the default factory image the motes come with.


Localization Breakout Session

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Authored By -Ted Herman on 08/30/2004
This Presentation looks at UIUC's concerns and progress regarding localization and Application Programming.


Power Management Breakout Session

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Authored By Santosh Kumar on 08/30/2004
This presentation has notes on both On and Off duty mote sleeping.


Meeting Minutes

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Authored on 08/29/2004
These meeting minutes contain reactions to the break out sessions of this meeting.


August ExScal Report

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Authored By Anish Arora on 08/28/2004
This presentation contains updates on sensors and detectors, development status, localization, timesync, the trusted base, power management, and Integration Status.


Acoustic-Analysis

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This document contains graphs comparing the Acoustic data from different testbed locations.


PI Meeting - June 28, 2004

NEST: Extreme Scaling Experiments

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Authored By Al Sciarretta on 06/29/2004
Topics covered in this presentation:
  • Sites
    • OSU
    • Wright-Patterson AFB (near Dayton, OH)
  • Logistics
  • Deployment


Breakout summary readout

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Authored on 06/28/2004
This Presentation covers topics:
  • Deployment
  • Metrics
  • Experiments and Suggested Experiments
  • Scenarios
  • Packaging
  • Timeline


ExScal Technical Report

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Authored By Anish Arora on 06/28/2004
This Report discusses:
  • Requirements and scenarios
  • Architecture and the Topology of Tiers 1 & 2
  • Hardware and Software components
  • Integration status


Self-Stabilization in NEST

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Authored By Anish Arora, Mohamed Gouda, Ted Herman, Sandeep Kulkarni, and Mikhail Nesterenko on 06/28/2004

Networked Sensor Development Tools: Hybrid Simulation and Network Reprogramming

This Presentation covers:
  • The MULE Architecture
  • The TinyOS Debugger
  • Multihop Network Reprogramming
  • TDMA-based reprogramming


Echelon Meeting - April 30, 2004

Methods for Specification, Monitoring and Reasoning About Scalable Distributed and Embedded Systems

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Authored By Gul Agha on 05/30/2004
In order to effectively use large-scale distributed and embedded systems, the problem of developing software which coordinates large numbers of distributed and embedded nodes must be addressed.


Difficulties of Anchor Placement

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Authored By Chen Zhang on 05/01/2004
Anchors are Tier 2 nodes; initially these were on 2nd and 4th rows, now new proposal (to simplify routing) puts these all on 3rd row.


Sensor Network Applications with Return on Investment

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Authored By Lakshman Krishnamurthy on 05/01/2004
This is the presentation given by Lakshman Krishnamurthy from Intel Research/Communication Technology Lab at the April 30, 2004 Echelon Meeting. It focuses on New Applications Enabled by Wireless Sensor Networks.


TimeSync and Localization Integration for XSM

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Authored By Ted Herman on 05/01/2004
  • TimeSync
    • synchronize detection events, timed sleep and wakeup, phase control
  • Localization
    • coherent coordinates at Tier 2 and Tier 3


Breakout Logistics Notes

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Authored on 04/30/2004
These meeting notes contain a timeline for the exscal project from April - October 2004.


Echelon Introduction

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Authored By Rajiv Ramnath on 04/30/2004
This presentation contains the meeting agenda and maps of Dreese Laboratories (the location of the meeting).


Echelon Status and Plans

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Authored By Anish Arora on 04/30/2004
This presentation covers the current status of the project. It also provides information on the test beds both locally and in Florida. It also discuses topology and the XSM motes themselves.


Echelon Timeline and Process

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Authored By Rajiv Ramnath on 04/30/2004
This presentation lays out a timeline for the project from April 2004 until the Final Demonstration in December of 2004


Echelon Wrap-up and Process

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Authored By Rajiv Ramnath on 04/30/2004
This presentation looks at what goals were met and which ones were not. Its purpose is to guide the project towards using a process to be more productive.


Experience in Reprogramming

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Authored By Sandeep Kulkarni, Limin Wang, Mahesh Arumugam on 04/30/2004
This presentation covers a number of topics regarding reprogramming.
  • Reliability
  • Autonomous distribution
  • Memory usage
  • Energy
  • Speed


Kansei: Motivation and Genesis of a Robotic Sensor Network Testbed

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Authored By Prabal Dutta, Chris Anderson, Mukundan Sridharan, Anish Arora on 04/30/2004
In 2003, NEST teams showcased several WSN scenarios. Some of these demos required Middleware (distributed algorithms), Multi-hop communications, and Detection of non-deterministic signals. It was Quickly discovered that these are difficult to do in simulation. Instead one must get out into the world to collect data and test performance. But how do you collect the data required for research and verification of middleware, communications, detection, classification, and tracking?


Meeting Minutes 2004/04/30

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Authored on 04/30/2004
These meeting minutes contain reactions to Anish's talk.


Reprogramming Breakout Session

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Authored on 04/30/2004
This is the presentation from the Reprogramming Breakout session at the April 30, 2004 Echelon Meeting. This presentation covers a variety of reprogramming issues, dependencies, and risks.


Routing Breakout Session

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Authored on 04/30/2004
This is the presentation from the Grid Routing Breakout session at the April 30, 2004 Echelon Meeting. It covers a variety of issues surrounding the choice of a routing method.


Sensor Self-Localization

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Authored By Gul Agha, YoungMin Kwon, Kirill Mechitov, and Sameer Sundresh on 04/30/2004
This presentation describes an approach for doing self localization that measures distances with acoustic ranging, uses grid constraints to counter imprecise ranging data, and solves for sensor coordinates as an optimization problem. The goals of this approach are precision, timeliness, and scalability.


Echelon Invitation and Program

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Authored on 04/27/2004
This document described the agenda and guest speakers that attended the April 30, 2004 Echelon Meeting.


Hardware Breakout Session

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This is the presentation from the Hardware Breakout session at the April 30, 2004 Echelon Meeting. This presentation covers basic information about the mote hardware. It includes sections on
  • Microphone
  • Magnetometer
  • Buzzer
  • PIR
  • Other
  • Packaging


Logistics Breakout Presentation

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Authored By Rajiv Ramnath, Al Sciaretta, Larry Rohrbough, and Bill Koenig
This presentation covers:
  • Timeline
  • Logistics
  • Con-ops


OSU Don Scott Airport Aerial View

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This image provides an overhead view of the OSU, Don Scott Airport. The Field in the lower right hand corner is used for running experiments with the motes.


Plans for Localization

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This presentation lists tasks that must be completed for localization to be successful.



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