Computer Science Department News

ODU Computer Science PhD student, Syed Rizvi, is one of seven Old Dominion University students chosen to present at Graduate Student Research Forum.

Syed Rizvi, doctoral student in computer science, College of Sciences: "Unity in Bad Times: Bringing Together Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks to Work for a Next-generation Emergency Response System."

The objective of the research is to design a real-time information system to improve emergency-response functions by bringing together information to respond to a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other small or large-scale emergency.

The system is called ALERT: An Architecture for the Emergency Retasking of Wireless Sensor Networks. The novel contribution of this research to the emergency response strategies is the seamless integration of various wireless sensor networks by retasking them with explicit missions involving a dynamically changing situation.

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