1. Some Thoughts on Sensor Network Research Krishna Kant Program Director National Science Foundation CNS/CSR Program

2. What are the big challenges? Technology and Services Large Scale Applications Science of Sensing Design for Sustainability

3. Technology & Services What will sensors will look like in 5-10 yrs & what apps will they enable? –Drivers to consider New technologies (nano, FS optical, >60GHz, …) & Moore’s law, smart energy harvesting/mgmt, smart multi-attribute sensing, … Miniaturization –Implanted, micro sensors in blood stream. Will this fuse CS & Bio? What does this imply? –Other environments with micro-sensors fused in? Smart phones/PDAs: Service & service provider perspective –What innovative services do we want and what HW, SW and protocol features would it require? Example: What does it take to enable collaborative threat or environmental monitoring?

4. Large Scale Applications Smart buildings, smart transportation, smart homes, …  Smart cities –What would it take to put it all together? –Protocols, discovery, information assimilation, security, privacy, … Sensing for Climate change prediction & adaptation –Planet wide scale, heterogeneous, specialized to location, challenging environments –Correlation of sensor data which isn’t even measuring the same thing Working with partial info, unreliable, intermittent, info, correlations, …

5. Other Issues Science of Sensing –Underlying theory for contextual collaborative sensing & computing? –Many questions How do you formalize context? How do you formalize collaborative sensing? What additional power do context & collaboration provide? Impossibility & complexity results? –Formalism to study end to end communication and computation complexity tradeoffs? Sustainable Design –Increasing pile of junk of mobile devices. –Sensors will follow – perhaps much larger quantities –Eco-friendly sensor designs?

6. CISE Core Programs Algorithmic foundations Communications & info foundations SW & HW foundations CCF Computing and Communications Foundations Sampath Kannan CNS Computer and Network Systems Ty Znati IIS Information and Intelligent Systems Haym Hirsch Office of the Assistant Director for CISE Jeannette Wing Computer Systems research Networking Technology & Systems Education & workforce Human centered computing Information integration & informatics Robust intelligence

7. CSR Program Scope Computer systems –Architecture, OS, compiler/run-time systems, parallel systems, systems mgmt, storage & network systems –System modeling (perf, power, dependability, …) Distributed systems –Synchronization, communication, scalability, middleware, … Mobile Systems –Pervasive computing, sensor systems, mobile services Embedded and hybrid systems –All aspects – architecture, verification, assurance, robustness, etc.

8. Some Areas of Interest to CSR Not intended to be “preferred” or emphasis areas; listed here for clarification –Energy efficiency issues at all levels Including sensors, mobile devices, client/server systems, data centers, cloud. –Sustainable IT and IT supporting sustainability. –Issues in enabling large scale science via IT systems –Many other current/emerging system areas Includes multi/many core systems & embedded/pervasive computing systems.