General Information

The FRONTS 2nd Winter School took place in Braunschweig, on October 12-16, 2009

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology is becoming more and more mature. There is variety of hardware and software to choose from, and almost all of them are easy to set up and use. Still there is a major issue that has not been sufficiently addressed in the past. The sensor node brands are very different in their capabilities. Consequently, the software running on these systems is very different on the various nodes. Where algorithms are implemented, they are hard to share and compare, as implementations cannot be easily ported to new platforms.

Goals and Audience

The goal of the school was to introduce the Wiselib,our proposal to remedy this unfortunate situation. It is a generic algorithms library, written in C++, that runs on a number of sensor platforms and simulation frameworks. It provides simple interfaces to the algorithm developer, with a unified API and ready-to-use data structure implementations.

Registration

PerAda provided a number of travel grants to help cover accommodation costs in shared double rooms. Successful applicants were MSc or PhD students in a relevant area of the workshop.

Agenda

The Winter School lasted for 3 days and included the following topics:

• Wiselib programming, including routing algorithms, localization algorithms,
• Using the WiseML markup language for sensor network experiments, documentation, and validation.
• Using the FRONTS remote testbed to validate Wiselib algorithms.

Further information on the 1st FRONTS/WISEBED school last year, which focused on the network simulator Shawn and the iSense hardware platform, can be found at:
http://fronts.cti.gr/index.php/events/105-fronts-winter-school-presentations

Presentations

Participants presented current results of their work in the context of FRONTS, PERADA, and WISEBED, i.e.,

• Sensor Networks
• Pervasive Adaptation
• Testbeds and Applications

By default, presentations were 30 minutes (25 minutes talk plus 5 minutes discussion).

Lecturers

• Tobias Baumgartner (Braunschweig UT, Germany)
• Ioannis Chatzigiannakis (RACTI, Greece)
• Tom Kamphans (Braunschweig UT, Germany)
• Christos Koninis (RACTI, Greece)
• Alexander Kroeller (Braunschweig UT, Germany)
• Daniela Krueger (U Luebeck, Germany)
• Dennis Pfisterer (U Luebeck, Germany)
• Apostolis Pyrgelis (U Patras, Greece)

Local Organization and Venue

The school is organized by:

Sandor Fekete, Alexander Kroeller and Ingo Brinkmeier, Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks, TU Braunschweig

and in cooperation with:

It took place at the Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks, Muehlenpfordtstr. 23, Braunschweig, Germany.

If you have any questions regarding the summer school, feel free to send inquiries to Ingo Brinkmeier at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

PerAda (Pervasive Adaptation) is a Future and Emerging Technologies Proactive Initiative funded by the European Commission under FP7