PhD Candidate
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Email: jgummeson at ecs.umass.edu,
gummeson at cs.umass.edu
140 Governor's Drive
Amherst, MA 01003
USA
I am a fifth year graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. My primary research interests are in low-power embedded computing, sensor networks and micro-energy harvesting for pervasive computing. I have programmed software and built/designed hardware for platforms ranging from ARM-based devices(Gumstix computers, Intel iMote2) to ultra-low power computational RFIDs (Telos, MicaZ, Intel WISP). My current research focuses on hardware and software techniques for energy management that allow adaptation to harvesting dynamics without the use of a battery. I am advised by Professor Deepak Ganesan in the Computer Science Department and Professor Tilman Wolf in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
I am also involved in several green computing projects under the advisement of Professor Prashant Shenoy:
1. Rivernet -- We are currently collaborating with ecologists at Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts. Our goal is to wirelessly network several stream gauges that currently store readings locally.
2. An energy harvesting measurement study that looks at the power output of a wind turbine and solar panel we deployed on the roof of the computer science building. Much of the existing research on energy harvesting for computing has used fairly idealized power traces. We aim to consider more dynamic environments (New England) as well as consider how much energy is storable with real, imperfect storage technologies such as lead acid type batteries. Eventually, we will deploy a small cluster of atom-based processors that are powered exclusively from "Green" energy. This work is being done in collaboration with Navin Sharma and David Irwin.
3. A power measurement study of computing equipment used by the Computer Science Department. We have deployed a nmber of tweet-a-watt power meters around the building and collect the data wirelessly. This work is being done with Klaus Kristo and Emmanuel Cecchet.
I am currently funded by by NSF grants CNS-0627529 and CNS-0923313.
Research Publications:
Flit: A Bulk Transmission Protocol for RFID-Scale Sensors
Jeremy Gummeson, Pengyu Zhang, Deepak Ganesan, In Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys 2012) PDFBLINK: A High Throughput Link Layer for Backscatter Communication
Pengyu Zhang, Jeremy Gummeson, Deepak Ganesan, In Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys 2012) PDFAn Adaptive Link Layer for Heterogeneous Multi-radio Sensor Networks.
Jeremy Gummeson, Deepak Ganesan, Mark D. Corner, and Prashant Shenoy
In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Simple Wireless Sensor Networking Solutions, September 2010. (JSAC).
PDFOn the Limits of Effective Hybrid Micro-Energy Harvesting on Mobile CRFID Sensors.
Jeremy Gummeson, Shane Clark, Kevin Fu, and Deepak Ganesan, In Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys 2010) PDFCloudy Computing: Leveraging Weather Forecasts in Energy Harvesting Sensor Systems
Navin K. Sharma, Jeremy Gummeson, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy
In Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, June, 2010.
PDFTowards Autonomously-Powered CRFIDs.
Shane Clark, Jeremy Gummeson, Kevin Fu, and Deepak Ganesan.
In Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower 2009), October 2009.
PDFAn Adaptive Link Layer for Range Diversity in Multi-radio Mobile Sensor Networks
Jeremy Gummeson, Deepak Ganesan, Mark D. Corner, and Prashant Shenoy
In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2009.
PDFSRCP: Simple Remote Control for Perpetual High-power Sensor Networks
Navin K. Sharma, Jeremy Gummeson, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy
In Proceedings of the European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks 2009.
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