System support for robust data collection in wireless sensing systems

Exploiting Redundancy for Robust Sensing

In this thesis, we explore the challenges in making an Internet-scale heterogeneous sensing system more robust. We target ”end-to-end” robustness in that we address failures in collecting data from a large collection of wired and wireless sensors, and problems in making sensor readings available to end-users from storage on Internet-connected nodes. Although often overlooked, robustness is extr...

Decision support system (DSS) for site selection floodwater spreading schemes using remote sensing (RS) and geographical information systems (GIS)

A wireless structural health monitoring system with multithreaded sensing devices: design and validation

Structural health monitoring (SHM) has become an important research problem which has the potential to monitor and ensure the performance and safety of civil structures. Traditional wire-based SHM systems require significant time and cost for cable installation. With the recent advances in wireless communication technology, wireless SHM systems have emerged as a promising alternative solution f...

Spectrum Sensing Data Falsification Attack in Cognitive Radio Networks: An Analytical Model for Evaluation and Mitigation of Performance Degradation

Cognitive Radio (CR) networks enable dynamic spectrum access and can significantly improve spectral efficiency. Cooperative Spectrum Sensing (CSS) exploits the spatial diversity between CR users to increase sensing accuracy. However, in a realistic scenario, the trustworthy of CSS is vulnerable to Spectrum Sensing Data Falsification (SSDF) attack. In an SSDF attack, some malicious CR users deli...

Efficient data collection in multimedia vehicular sensing platforms

Vehicles provide an ideal platform for urban sensing applications, as they can be equipped with all kinds of sensing devices that can continuously monitor the environment around the travelling vehicle. In this work we are particularly concerned with the use of vehicles as building blocks of a multimedia mobile sensor system able to capture camera snapshots of the streets to support traffic moni...