WELCOME to the official PRISM website of the School of Computer Science and Informatics at UCD Dublin.
The PRISM lab has recently become part of the CLARITY centre. Therefore some content of this site may be dated. on wireless sensor networks, adaptive wireless sensor networks and devices for wireless sensor networks

                  

Research Overview

The research activities of the PRISM group at UCD cover the diverse issues surrounding ubiquitous and mobile computing scenarios, including the design of physical communication mechanisms, protocols, middleware, and applications. The unifying goal behind the PRISM group's research activities is the enhancement of activities in the physical world via pervasive and adaptive computing devices that can enrich our daily lives, as well as the environment around us.

To achieve these results, the PRISM group adopts a holistic vision, in which system components must be designed in tandem to achieve efficient performance.
In the area of wireless sensor network, our activities investigate physical layer technologies (such as Bluetooth and underwater acoustics), the MAC/routing protocols (such as IEEE 802.15.4, ALPL, and MERLIN), middleware (such as intelligent and mobile agents), and applications (such as medical, environmental, and assisted living projects).
One of the foremost aids to the design of ubiquitous systems in general comes from Agent and Multi Agent System (MAS) research. In addition to the development of multiagent platforms and languages, on this front our projects range from applications of agents (e.g. personal assistant agents) in purely computational/virtual environments, to the agent-based integration with wireless sensor networks and robots inhabiting the physical world.

The PRISM group is always looking for qualified people to join the group. For more information on our current vacancies, please check the following link.