Peter Scheuermann
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - EECS
M^cCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Northwestern University

Description: The main goal of our research is to investigate the trade-offs that arise when one needs to strike a balance between:

Various Quality of DATA (QoD) aspects, e.g.,

• timely delivery of the measured value;
• boundary on the error of the value,

VS.

Towards that end, we have developed our own similator SIDnet that is equipped with a graphical interface and enables the users to interact with various parameters (e.g., queries, routing structures, nodes' failures, deployment schemas, phenomena fluctuations, etc.). A detailed description for the project, along with the publicly available package of the SIDnet is available here: SIDnet (Note: the initial version of the simulator, used in the "Information Management in Sensor Networks" course, in Fall 2007, was called SNSim).