Pieter Agten receives Alcatel Lucent Bell MSc Thesis award

 

 

 

Antwerp, October 18, 2011. Alcatel-Lucent Belgium organized its annual innovation awards contest to reward students who show exceptional achievements in their field and are an inspiration to others.

Pieter Agten was awarded the Alcatel-Lucent Bell MSc Thesis Award 2011 for his Master Thesis titled "Traffic monitoring and rate limiting in wireless sensor networks". The promotor of his thesis is Prof. Wouter Joosen, Head of the DistriNet Research Group.

 

Abstract

Applications of wireless sensor networks can be found in many different domains, ranging from logistics to home automation and from agriculture to health care. Because of mobility requirements and constraints in physical size and cost, sensor nodes have only limited resources available for achieving their goals. Therefore, it is important to utilize the available resources as efficiently as possible. In order to realize this, measuring and actively limiting the resource usage is crucial. Monitoring and limiting the network traffic generated by the sensor nodes is a key part of this.