European Project WISEBED: Providing a Testbed for Sensor Network Technologies

Stefan Fischer is a full professor in computer science at the University of Lübeck, Germany, and the director of the Institute for Telematics. He got his diploma degree in "Wirtschaftsinformatik" and his doctoral degree from the University of Mannheim, Germany, in 1992 and 1996, respectively. After professoral appointments in Bruchsal and Braunschweig, he finally, in 2004 joined Lübeck University. His research interest is currently focused on new network and distributed system structures such as ad-hoc and sensor networks. He has (co-)authored about 100 scientific books and articles. Dr Fischer is a member of ACM, IEEE and the German Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).

The aim of the project WISEBED is to provide a multi-level infrastracture of interconnected testbeds of largescale wireless sensor networks for research purposes, pursuing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates the aspects of hardware, software, algorithms, and data. This will demonstrate how heterogeneous small-scale devices and testbeds can be brought together to form well-organized, large-scale structures, rather than just some large network; it will allow research not only at a much larger scale, but also in different quality, due to heterogeneous structure and the ability to deal with dynamic scenarios,

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