Antennas for Wireless Sensors
The emergence of wireless sensor systems promises to change the way we control our environments, make decisions, and promote the health and safety of our population. While numerous research projects on wireless sensors exist, very few address the critical technology of the antennas that enable wireless communication. Several projects in this area propose to use standard off-the-shelf antennas, but this choice often limits the capabilities of the system by ignoring the unique requirements and environment of the application.

In this project, we plan to develop both a general methodology for the development of antennas for wireless sensor systems as well as several designs for specific applications.
 
Project Leads
Jennifer Bernhard, NCSA

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The National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research NCASSR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a multi-institutional cybersecurity research team. NCASSR focuses basic and applied research necessary to develop next generation information security technologies that address national cybersecurity needs. NCASSR is led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).


SELS 0.7 released
Secure Email List Services (SELS) is an open source software for creating and developing secure email list services among user communities.
 
Strong community engagement strengthens cybersecurity research and development
NCASSR-supported exploratory research at NCSA and elsewhere has sparked additional external funding and development opportunities as well as successful deployment and adoption by users ranging from the defense sector to state law enforcement to the utilities industry.
 
NCASSR Collaborator Goes To Washington
Carl Gunter, a professor in the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science and a project lead on NCASSR-supported work involving adaptive, secure messaging, recently spoke to an audience of congressional staffers and lobbyists on Capitol Hill regarding ways to address a variety of critical cybersecurity issues in areas such as healthcare and energy distribution.