Enabling Dynamic Crowdsensing through Models@Runtime

Enabling Autonomous Rover Science Through Dynamic Planning and Scheduling1

TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract— With each new rover mission to Mars, rovers are traveling significantly longer distances. This distance increase allows not only the collection of more science data, but enables a number of new and different science collection opportunities. Current mission operations, such as that on the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers (MER), require all rover commands to be determined...

Enabling Scalable Information Sharing for Distributed Applications Through Dynamic Replication

To my parents, for everything. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would first like to thank my dissertation committee members, Ling Liu, Kishore Ra-machandran, Jim Xu and Zhen Liu, for their time and suggestions. I greatly appreciate their insight and comments that have influenced and improved my research. I am so fortunate to be a part of the System research group, from which I have received not only insp...

Enabling Performance Tradeoffs Through Dynamic Configuration of Advanced Network Services

Enabling opportunistic and dynamic spectrum access through learning techniques

The expected shortage in spectrum supply is well understood to be primarily due to the inefficient, static nature of current spectrum allocation policies. In order to address this problem, FCC promotes the so-called Opportunistic Spectrum Access (OSA) to be applied on Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs). In short, the idea behind OSA is allowing unlicensed users to use unused licensed spectra as lo...

Design and Implementation of an Indoor Modeling Method through Crowdsensing

While automatic modeling and mapping of outdoor environments is well-established, the indoor equivalent of automated generation of building floor plans poses a challenge. In fact, outdoor localization is commonly available and inexpensive through the existing satellite positioning systems, such as GPS and Galileo. However, these technologies are not applicable in indoor environments, since a di...