My PhD Project

Research Interests

My research is situated in the area of wireless embedded sensing; using embedded, sensor equipped devices that communicate wirelessly to investigate and monitor physical phenomena. This type of work is highly cross-discipline, with computer scientists, electrical engineers, statisticians, mathematicians and domain scientists (ecologists, biologists) all collaborating to build and deploy working systems which help answer real scientific research questions. For the computer scientist, there are a huge variety of hardware and software issues related to making reliable, robust distributed systems that are power-constrained and must communicate wirelessly.

My particular specialisation within this field is localization. In a physical and geometric context, localization is the process of establishing the spatial relationships (i.e. relative positions) between devices or objects of interest.

• Gaura, E. Allen, M., Girod, L., Brusey, J. "Wireless sensor networks: Deployments and Design Frameworks", Springer Publishing, 2010 (book co-editor and chapter author).
  
• Allen, M., Baydere, S., Gaura, E., Kucuk, G. "Evaluation of Localization Algorithms", to appear in Localization Algorithms and Strategies for Wireless Sensor networks, IGI Publishing, 2009. pdf  

• Ali, M., Azgari, S., Collier, T., Allen, M., Girod, L., Hudson, R., Yao, K., Taylor, C., Blumstein, D., "An Empirical Study of Collaborative Acoustic Source Localization" To appear in the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing (JVLSISP).

Conference Publications 

• Allen, M., Girod, L., Newton, R., Madden, S., Blumstein, D., Estrin, D., “VoxNet: An Interactive, Rapidly-Deployable Acoustic Monitoring Platform”, to appear in the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2008)
• Allen, M.P., Graham, E., Ahmadian, S., Ko, T. Yuen, E., Girod, L., Hamilton, M., Estrin, D., "Interactive Environmental Sensing: Signal and Image Processing Challenges", to appear in the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2008)