Fall 2014 Seminar Series
Dr. Zheng Peng
University of Connecticut
Underwater Wireless Networks: Revolutionizing the Water World
Abstract: The Earth is a water planet. For decades, there have been significant interests in monitoring aquatic
environments for scientific exploration, commercial exploitation and coastline protection. Highly precise, realtime, and temporal-spatial continuous aquatic environment monitoring systems are extremely important for
various applications, such as oceanographic data collection, pollution detection, and marine surveillance. The
idea of applying sensor networks into underwater environments has received increasing interests. Even though
underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) share some common properties with ground sensor networks, such as the
large number of nodes and limited energy, UWSNs are significantly different from the conventional ground
sensor technology. This requires new research at every layer of the protocol stack (from the physical layer to the
application layer) and new underwater experimental infrastructure to implement, test and compare the solutions.
This talk will provide an overview of the UWSNs, including the basic idea, research challenges and
opportunities, applications and current progresses.
Biography: Zheng Peng received the B.S. degree in Control Science and Engineering and the B.S. degree in
Computer Science from the Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 2002. He obtained his M.S. degree in
Computer Science from University of Electrical Science and Technology of China in 2005, and later the Ph.D
degree from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA. He is currently an assistant research professor at the
University of Connecticut. He leads research projects in the area of underwater sensor networks and the next
generation underwater technology. His main research interests cover the design, modelling, and performance
evaluation of networks and embedded/distributed systems.
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When: 12:00pm-1:00pm, Friday Oct 10 , 2014
Where: Room E1232, School of Engineering-East Hall, Monroe Campus