Title:   Polygonal Broadcast, Secret Maturity and the Firing Sensors

Speaker: Shlomi Dolev

Place:   NE43-308
Time:    1-2:30pm
Date:    Feb. 14, 2003

Abstract:


This work considers communication among sensors that are spread in a
geographic region. Each sensor is a computing device with severe
resources limitations, low power, slow processing and small
memory. The devices are distributed (uniformly) in the geographic
region. Broadcast, flooding and sense of direction procedures that fit
the special characteristics of the system will be presented.  The
procedures use imaginary tiling of the plane.

The broadcast procedures are used by a sensor for distributing secrets
that activate the sensors simultaneously at a particular time without
revealing the nature of the upcoming activity.

joint work with Ted Herman and Limor Lahiani