PhD student at EPFL
Geneva Area, Switzerland
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Jerome Rousselot’s Summary
I am currently involved in my PhD thesis at CSEM and EPFL on the evaluation of Ultra Wideband Impulse Radio for wireless sensor networks.
Wireless Sensor Networks are self-organizing networks of small electronic devices that communicate wirelessly and collect data from their environment through one or more sensors. Applications scenarios include cattle health control, environmental monitoring of fragile ecosystems, warehouse inventory, logistics, elderly care, risk management...
Ultra Wideband Impulse Radio (UWB-IR) is a novel technique for transmitting information wirelessly which is ultra low power, robust to interference, and offers high precision ranging.
This last property would bring significant advantages to current sensor network platforms whose radio systems allow only very rough position estimates.
Since these radios are not yet widely available, an important part of my work consists of modeling these systems. Either analytically and using stochastic calculus, or by numerical simulations with the discrete event system simulator Omnet++.
Among other things, I developed the first network simulator for UWB-IR.
Participations to EU research projects: Pulsers II, Cruise, ESense, Wasp.
