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Analysis of Sensor, Acoustic, Low Power and Low Bandwidth Networks
Grainger, Steven ORGANIZER: Welsh, Robert
Significant work is being done in creatively applying wireless and ad hoc techniques to power and bandwidth constrained environments such as deployed sensing systems, heterogeneous sensor systems of systems, long term data collection, equipment logistics and even application of acoustic techniques to underwater vehicle and platform communications. Applications range from tactical to perimeter protection to long term monitoring to scientific. Papers in this session will explore application of modeling and simulation techniques to system performance analysis, hardware and software in the loop approaches, mission planning tools, CONOPS development, propagation analysis and development support to protocol, security, algorithm, software and component development.
Steven Grainger has 20 years of experience in the software development and systems engineering fields incorporating both commercial and government based products. Steven's background in software development includes kernel development in both UNIX and real time operating systems, applications development, network management, system security, and network design and simulation. Steven is currently the Director of Secure Systems and Networks at Textron Systems in Wilmington, MA. Steven has been involved with the development of simulation systems for satellite communications systems. Specifically, with the simulation of IP over satellites and reachback into terrestrial IP networks. Steven has also lead simulation teams for large scale satellite networks for government customers. Steven recently published a paper on extending the life time of legacy simulation models using an evolutionary approach to achieve life time extension. Steven's undergraduate degree is in Computer Engineering from Nova Southeastern University and a Masters degree from the University of Maryland in Software Engineering. His research interest areas include system security, ad-hoc mobile networks, and use of simulation to analyze complex systems.