Oxford University Computing Laboratory (OUCL) has received an EPSRC award to fund a D.Phil studentship for research into hybrid mobile and sensor networks for wildlife monitoring.
This research is co-directed by Dr Niki Trigoni at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, in collaboration with Dr Cecilia Mascolo at University College London and Prof David Macdonald and Dr Chris Newman at the Oxford's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit. The student will collaborate with a postdoctoral research assistant in OUCL in the WILDSENSING project to improve the existing wildlife monitoring technology by developing distributed algorithms for efficient data dissemination, storage and collection.
The objectives of the project are to:
1) define high-level language primitives for programming the integrated platform of sensor and mobile nodes;
2) develop distributed algorithms for intelligent cooperation among mobile devices and sensor nodes, allowing the system to minimize the total monitoring effort;
3) design distributed algorithms for energy-efficient data dissemination in the sensor network;
4) deploy a prototype monitoring system at Oxford University's research reserve, Wytham Woods, in order to monitor the social behaviour of badgers and the microclimatic conditions around their setts.
The studentship is fully funded by EPSRC for three years at home/eu level and will included a stipend of £12,600.
Further information can be obtained from http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/jobs/wildsensing.pdf and informal queries about the project can be sent to Niki.Trigoni@comlab.ox.ac.uk.
The deadline for submission has been extended to 25th July.
