CS Colloquium on Oct. 15 at 3pm

Title: Polygonal Broadcast, Secret Maturity and the Firing Sensors

Speaker: Limor Lahiani, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
         http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~lahiani

Date: October 15 (Wednesday)
Time: 3pm
Place: MCS 135

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.

This is joint work with Shlomi Dolev and Ted Herman

Biography of the Speaker: (TBA)

Host: Gene Itkis (http://www.cs.bu.edu/~itkis)