CISTER’s researcher Petr Jurcik successfully defended his PhD thesis

In the framework of a joint collaboration between CISTER and the Department of Control Engineering of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University (CTU), CISTER’s researcher Petr Jurcik successfully defended his PhD thesis at Czech Technical University, last October 1st.

The thesis, co-supervised by CISTER Researchers Anis Koubaa and Mário Alves and CTU Professor Zdenek Hanzálek, focuses on the study of Wireless Sensor Networks with cluster-tree topologies, supporting predictable and energy efficient behavior, being suited for time-sensitive applications using battery-powered nodes. The validity and accuracy of the simulation model and methodologies are demonstrated through the comprehensive experimental and simulation studies. Using the proposed analytical methodologies and simulation model, system designers are able to easily configure the IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee cluster-tree WSN for a given application-specific Quality of Service (QoS) requirements prior to the network deployment.

This work was developed in the framework of CISTER’s Wireless Sensor Network area, and the COTS4QoS research cluster of the CONET European Network of Excellence. One important result work was published last August in the prestigious ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (impact factor = 5.61). That work is co-authored by Petr Jurcik, Ricardo Severino, Anis Koubaa, Mário Alves and Eduardo Tovar and is entitled "Dimensioning and Worst-case Analysis of Cluster-Tree Sensor Networks".

The thesis is available in CISTER’s publications.