Ubiquitous Computing and Monitoring System (UCoMS) for Discovery and Management of Energy Resources

Nian-Feng Tzeng
Center for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

This UCoMS (Ubiquitous Computing and Monitoring System) project was a major, collaborative research initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and the Louisiana Board of Regents during August 2004 - April 2012. The project brought together researchers from UL Lafayette, LSU, and Southern University to conduct research topics centering on a computing paradigm where processing cabilities and sensing technologies are invisibly embedded into everyday objects and environments for boosting Gulf petroleum productivity and energy-resource management via "ubiquitous computing." It focused on: (1) a wireless networked system, (2) grid computing with massive computation power and storage for the discovery and management of energy resources, and (3) discovery and management applications leveraging on the UCoMS paradigm.

The project built a unified grid portal and a "Black Oil Toolkit," aiming to integrate large-scale scientific modeling, grid computing, and real-time data collection from wireless sensor networks deployed in the field. It ensured maximum utilization of petroleum fields by substantially improving oil and gas well productivity and characterizing reservoirs

• Project Announcement
  A project announcement, with its details, can be found at UCoMS Project Announcement.
  
  
• Final Project Report
  See the final UCoMS project report produced and made available for public sharing at UCoMS Fianl Project Report.

Publications

• J. Maneesilp, C. Wang, H. Wu, and N.-F. Tzeng, “RFID Support for Accurate 3-Dimensional Localization," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 62, no. 7, pp. 1447-1459, July 2013, PDF (1740K).

• X.-Y. Xiang, I. Jangjaimon, M. Madani, and N.-F. Tzeng, “A Reliable and Cost-Effective Sand Monitoring System on the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 62, no. 7, pp. 1870-1881, July 2013, PDF (9261K).

• Adam W. Lewis, N.-F. Tzeng, and S. Ghosh, “Run-Time Energy Consumption Estimation for Server Workloads Based on Chaotic Time-Series Approximation," ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), vol. 9, issue 3, article no. 15, October 2012, PDF (451K).

• F. Pong and N.-F. Tzeng, “Concise Lookup Tables for IPv4 and IPv6 Longest Prefix Matching in Scalable Routers," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking,, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 729-741, June 2012, PDF (2331K).

• F. Pong and N.-F. Tzeng, “HaRP: Rapid Packet Classification via Hashing Round-down Prefixes," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 22, pp. 1105-1119, July 2011, PDF (1946K).

• Paul J. Darby III and N.-F. Tzeng, “Decentralized QoS-Aware Checkpointing Arrangement in Mobile Grid Computing," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 9, pp. 1173-1186, August 2010, PDF (1712K).

• F. Pong and N.-F. Tzeng, “SUSE: Superior Storage-Efficiency for Routing Tables through Prefix Transformation and Aggregation," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking,, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 81-94, February 2010, PDF (1160K).

• Y. Wang, H. Wu, F. Lin, and N.-F. Tzeng, “Cross-Layer Protocol Design and Optimization for Delay/Fault-Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks (DFT-MSN’s)," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications,, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 809-819, June 2008, PDF (488K).

• H. Chen, H. Wu, S. Kumar, and N.-F. Tzeng, "Minimum-Cost Data Delivery in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 17, pp. 481-494, November 2007, PDF (436K).

• N.-F. Tzeng, "Routing Table Partitioning for Speedy Packet Lookups in Scalable Routers," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 17, pp. 481-494, May 2006, PDF (1740K).

• Y. Li, H. Wu, N.-F. Tzeng, D. Perkins, M. Bayoumi, "MAC-SCC: A Medium Access Control Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, pp. 1805-1817, July 2006, PDF (734K).

• H. Wu, A. Utgikar, and N.-F. Tzeng, "SYN-MAC: A Distributed MAC Protocol for Synchronized Wireless Networks," Mobile Networks & Applications: The Journal of Special Issues on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing, Springer, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 627-637, October 2005, PDF (1241K).

• H. Wu, C. Wang, and N.-F. Tzeng, "Novel Self-Configurable Positioning Technique for Multi-hop Wireless Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 13, pp. 609-621, June 2005, PDF (926K).

• N.-F. Tzeng, "STRESS: Efficient Multicast Shared Trees via Restricted Search," Proc. 2005 IEEE Int'l Conference on Communications (ICC 2005), May 2005. Abstract, PDF (328K).

• N.-F. Tzeng, "SPAL: Speedy Packet Lookups under Distributed Router Architecture," Proc. 33rd Int'l Conference on Parallel Processing, Aug. 2004, pp. 284-291. Abstract, PDF (965K).

• M. Mandviwalla and N.-F. Tzeng, "DRA: A Dependable Architecture for High-Performance Routers," Proc. Int'l Workshop on Network Design and Architecture (IWNDA 2004, held in conjunction with 33rd Int'l Conference on Parallel Processing), Aug. 2004, pp. 265-272. Abstract, PDF (350K).

• N.-F. Tzeng, "Multistage-Based Switching Fabrics for Scalable Routers," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 15, pp. 304-318, April 2004. Abstract, PDF (1250K).

• N.-F. Tzeng, "Hardware-Assisted Design for Fast Packet Forwarding in Parallel Routers," Proc. 32nd Int'l Conference on Parallel Processing, Oct. 2003, pp. 11-18. Abstract, PDF (387K).

• N.-F. Tzeng and P. Alla, "Guided Shared Trees for Efficient Multicast in Large Networks," Proc. 2003 IEEE Int'l Conference on Communications (ICC 2003), May 2003. Abstract, PDF (238K).

• N.-F. Tzeng and M. Mandviwalla, Performance Evaluation of Router Switching Fabrics," Proc. 9th IEEE Int'l Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, December 2002, pp. 542-547. Abstract, PDF (282K).

• N.-F. Tzeng and R. Batchu, "Design and Evaluation of Scalable Switching Fabrics for High-Performance Routers," Proc. 31st Int'l Conference on Parallel Processing, August 2002, pp. 167-174. Abstract, PDF (521K).

• N.-F. Tzeng and M. Mandviwalla, "Cost-Effective Switching Fabrics with Distributed Control for Scalable Routers," Proc. 22nd IEEE Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, July 2002, pp. 65-73. Abstract, PDF (513K).

• K. Vibhatavanij, N.-F. Tzeng, and A. Kongmunvattana, "Simultaneous Multithreading-Based Routers," Proc. 29th Int'l Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '00), Aug. 2000, pp. 362-369. Abstract, PDF (738K).

• N.-F. Tzeng, K. Ponnuru, and K. Vibhatavanij, "A Cost-Effective Design for ATM Switching Fabrics," Proc. 1999 IEEE Int'l Conference on Communications (ICC '99), June 1999, pp. S37.4.1-5. Abstract, PDF (655K).

Funding

• National Science Foundation under NSF Grant of CNS #0831823.
• US Department of Energy (DOE) under Award Number DE-FG02-04ER46136.
• Board of Regents, State of Louisiana under Contract Under Contract No. DOE/LEQSF(2004-07)-ULL.