Interoperable Smart Sensors & Networking Lab (ISSNet)

College of Technology 230D Technology Bldg. Houston TX 77204-4020

Connect any smart transducer into an interoperable network and it should plug in and play!

Interoperable Smart Sensors and Networking Lab

This is an applied research laboratory in the Department of Engineering Technology. Distributed systems of sensors, medical instruments, measurement and instrumentation applications are the general area of our research.

·   We develop sensor systems to monitor heart sounds using optical fiber Bragg grating sensors based on wavelength discrimination method.

·   We have an active collaboration with MediCAN Systems Inc. to develop and test a biomedical instrument networking protocol suite.

·   Our work with NASA-SSC Integrated System Health Management involves development and testing of smart sensor networks based on interoperable standards such as the IEEE 1451 standard suite.

·   We have proposed and demonstrated local area communication networking using simulation studies on optical CDMA systems with code converters.

·   We also develop power saving algorithms for sensor networks—testing of algorithms in NS-2 is in progress. The LEACH algorithm is being modified to improve its power efficiency.

·   We are working to create a conceptual design of a measurement platform for GENI. Optical layer measurements that enable cross-layer communications will change the way we understand internet towards a more power efficient use of the resources.

Deniz Gurkan

College of Technology

University of Houston

230B Technology Bldg.

Houston TX 77204-4020

Phone: 713-743-4037

Fax: 713-743-4032

E-mail: dgurkan@uh.edu

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Last updated by D. Gurkan on July 21, 2008

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July 29, 2008—AT&T Technology Lab at College of Technology: AT&T Research Symposium will host our research presentations on: “Optical Layer Measurements” by Dr. Gurkan and “FT-DAS: Fault Tolerant data Aggregation for Tree Networks” by Dr. Yuan.

July 10, 2008—Anshul Singla graduated from ISSNet with his master’s in technology, congratulations!

May 29, 2008—AT&T Technology Lab at College of Technology: First demonstration of dynamic circuit services through a Texas based research network (LEARN) in collaboration with Rice, LEARN, TLC2, Internet2, and NYSERNet during LEARN’s board meeting in Dallas.

May 27, 2008—Hosting NSF-REU participants: Ligia Gramajo and Breen Malmberg, welcome to ISSNet!

May 14, 2008—Graduate students Pongnarin Thongpithoonrat and Anshul Singla are working as interns for the summer: congratulations to both!

May 9, 2008—Aslihan Ozkaya graduated from ISSNet with her master’s in technology, congratulations!

April 29, 2008—NIST Sensor Standards Harmonization Meeting during the NIST Interoperability Week.

Feb 16, 2008—IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium travel grant awarded to Anshul Singla and Richard Franzl, congratulations!