[TITLE] Singlehop Collaboration and Coordination Primitives for Wireless Sensor Actor Networks
[SPEAKER] Murat Demirbas, SUNY Buffalo
[PLACE]   32-G631
[TIME]   11-12:30am
[DATE]   Tuesday April 20, 2010

[ABSTRACT]

I will talk about a decentralized transactional framework, Transact,
that enables a node to update the state of its singlehop neighborhood
consistently and atomically. One of the key insights in this framework
is to observe that singlehop wireless broadcast has many useful
features for facilitating collaboration and coordination. By
exploiting the atomicity and broadcast properties of singlehop
wireless communication, the framework provides a simple/clean
abstraction and yet manages to retain concurrency of the underlying
execution. As such, this framework will be useful for deploying
distributed control applications as well as WSN in-network processing
protocols.