Abstract:
This research cluster
on ubiquitous computing and monitoring system (UCoMS) for discovery
and management of energy resources, includes three key components:
wireless network systems, grid computing, and applications. Its
overall research objective centers on the design, deployment, and
evaluation of a large-scale wireless networking and grid computing
prototype for exploration and management of energy resources in the
Gulf of Mexico. The prototype system will be designed to allow
drilling and production data collection from the well platforms,
enable a huge amount of measured data logging, storage, and real-time
access, support compute-intensive fine-grained simulations, provide
platform safety monitoring, and to facilitate the DWD
(diagnostics-while-drilling) approach. Research topics pertinent to
this research will be described briefly.