Intelligent Networking

Group Leader    : Dr. Suresh Sankaranarayanan

The Intelligent Networking (ING) has made a beginning in 2008 and the vision of the group is to develop innovative technologies and practical systems that would have applications in the next generation intelligent networking systems. The outcome of the research under CIN could be applied for a broad range of business applications such as finance, marketing, security as well as in health, government and engineering sectors.

Research Areas

· Applications of Policy based Mobile Agents for managing Wireless Sensor based Mesh Networks

for Health Applications

This is a collaborative Research project established between Dr.Suresh Sankaranarayanan, Lecturer Department of Computing, University of West Indies, Jamaica & Dr.Subra Ganesan, Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Oakland University, USA.

Applications of modern Information technology (IT) in Health industry is not new. There have been many innovations in health based IT discipline like Telemedicine, Teleconferencing, and then innovations in the use of ultra sound like removing stone in the Kidney, scanning to see the condition of the baby in the mother’s womb, Laser usage for eye surgery and so on. We in this context feel that it would be advantageous to study the applications of wireless sensors forming a network and do further research towards using them for health applications. Basically, these sensors are very tiny devices, and they could be well employed for continuously monitoring the health conditions of a patient. It may well be recognized that it is very difficult to monitor continuously the health condition of a patient by any doctor or a nurse throughout the day.  In the context, these wireless sensors can very well be employed to keep monitoring the health conditions of the patient continuously and also inform the doctor through wireless communication. The information can be directly conveyed in his/her handheld device, which has now become very common these days. Also there is a possibility of globalization of the transmission of health condition information, particularly to the expert doctor, through use of Internet. This needs to work with modern networking techniques to find the appropriate path for transmitting the information. All these techniques put together, seem to be an emerging technology and have lots of research potential, issues and challenges, in incorporating such a multi disciplined technology for health applications. In the envisaged research, we may not concentrate on sensor development but would prefer to use the existing sensors available for health applications. Our research focus would therefore be primarily in the area of using policy based mobile agents communicating information arising from wireless sensors through a mesh network on to the Internet. Essentially the research would be on information transfer in such an environment working against the constraints like power and memory availability in the sensor node and interference arising in the data network.

Graduate Students

· Kevin Miller, “Studies on Applications of Policy based Agents in Wireless Body sensor Mesh Networks for Health Application “- M.phil, UWI

· David Barnes, “Performance of comparison of Client/Server versus Intelligent Agent in wireless Body Sensor Networks for health Applications”- M.S, Oakland University, USA

· Yvotte Lemard, “Intelligent Agent based Mobile Health Care”- M.Sc, UWI

· Applications of Intelligent Agents in Mobile commerce

The widespread adoption of digital hand held mobile devices has paved the way for the development of many innovative applications. Among them, one possibility is to use such mobile devices for mobile commerce applications. M-commerce (mobile commerce) is the buying and selling of goods and services through wireless handheld devices such as cellular telephone and personal digital assistants PDA.  Today most people never leave home without their mobile phone. As content delivery over wireless devices becomes faster and scalable, and thus there is wide speculation that m-commerce will surpass wire line e-commerce. M-commerce, in the context, provides lot of services like Mobile ticketing, Mobile banking, Mobile location based services, Mobile auctions, Mobile purchasing and so on. This represents an incredible opportunity to enable mobile devices, as a universal device for mobile commerce applications. Now with the advent of handheld devices like PDA, smart phones, we can achieve these mobile commerce services using mobile agents. Mobile agents have recently gained considerable attention in computer science. The agents are nothing but software codes which can move between nodes/devices for delivering data. The main advantage of using Mobile agents is to reduce bandwidth and latency compared to the legacy client/server application. Taking the above aspect into consideration, it may be mentioned that mobile agent technology is being considered for effecting mobile commerce services These agents here would move dynamically for achieving these services.

Graduate Students

· Ryan Anthony Brown, “Intelligent agent based Mobile Shopper”- M.Sc, UWI

· Lorraine Smith-Beiley, “Intelligent agent based Mobile Tour Planner”- M.Sc, UWI

· Lavare Henry, “Intelligent Agent based Mobile Learning”- M.Sc, UWI

· Michael Gordon, “Development of Security Mechanism in Mobile Payment- M.Sc, UWI