Keynote Speech Title: "Wireless Sensors Networks: Current and Future Challenges"

Prof. Magdi Bayoumi

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
P.O. Box 44330
Lafayette, LA 70504 U.S.A.
Tel: +1 337 482 6147
Fax: +1 337 482 5791
Email: mab@cacs.louisiana.edu

ABSTRACT
Computers, communication, and sensing technologies are converging to change the way
we live, interact, and conduct business. Wireless sensor networks reflect such convergence.
These networks are based on collaborative efforts of a large number of sensor
nodes. They should be low-cost, low-power, and multifunction. These nodes have the
capabilities of sensing, data processing, and communicating. Sensor networks have a
wide range of applications, from monitoring sensors in industrial facilities to control and
management of energy applications to military and security fields. Because of the special
features of these networks, new network technologies are needed for cost effective, low
power, and reliable communication. These network protocols and architectures should
take into consideration the special features of sensor networks such as: the large number
of nodes, their failure rate, limited power, high density, etc. In this talk the impact of
wireless sensor networks will be addressed, several of the design and communication
issues will be discussed, and a case study of a current project of using such networks in
drilling and management off-shore oil and natural gas in the gulf region will be given.

About the Speaker:

Prof. Magdy A. Bayoumi is Director of The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) and Department Head of the Computer Science Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette). He is also the Edmiston Professor of Computer Engineering and Lamson Professor of Computer Science. Dr. Bayoumi has been a faculty member in CACS since 1985. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt; M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Washington University, St. Louis; and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Windsor, Canada. Dr. Bayoumi's research interests include VLSI Design Methods and Architectures, Low Power Circuits and Systems, Digital Signal Processing Architectures, Parallel Algorithm Design, Computer Arithmetic, Image and Video Signal Processing, Neural Networks and Wideband Network Architectures.

Dr. Bayoumi is leading a research group of 15 Ph.D. and 10 M.Sc. students in these research areas. He has graduated 15 Ph.D. and about 100 M.Sc. students. He has published over 200 papers in related journals and conferences. He edited co-edited and coauthored 5 books in his research interest. He was the guest editor of three special issues in VLSI Signal Processing and co-guest editor of a special issue on "Learning on Silicon". Dr. Bayoumi has one patent on "On-Chip Learning." He has given numerous invited lectures and talks nationally and internationally. He has consulted in industry.

Dr. Bayoumi was the vice president for technical activities of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society, where he has served in many editorial, administrative, and leadership capacities. He was elected to the BoG (1996). He is one of the founding members of the VLSI Systems and Applications (VSA) Technical Committee (TC) and was the past chair. He was one of the founding members of the Neural Network TC. He is a member of the Multimedia TC. He has been on the technical program committee for ISCAS for several years (as track chair and co-chair). He has organized several special sessions and workshops at this conference. He was a co-organizer and co-chair of a forum on MEMS in ISCAS’95. He was the publication chair of ISCAS’99 and he is the special session co-chair of ISCAS’02. He is a member of the steering committee of the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS). He was the general chair of MWSCAS’94, and the special session chair of MWSCAS’93. He has organized many special sessions and has been on the technical program committee of the symposium for several years. He was on a panel on VLSI Education in MWSCAS’95 and a judge for the first student paper contest in MWSCAS’97. He was an associate editor of the Circuits and Devices Magazine, Transaction on VLSI Systems, Transaction on Neural Networks, and Transaction on Circuits and Systems II.