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Dan is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science through research in the area of Networks. Current interests include heterogeneous internetworking and intellegent management architectures for Wireless Mesh and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs).

The majority of his undergraduate research experience has been with respect to network-distributed sensor webs. Specifically, he has been interested in the linking of heterogeneous sensor constellations to provide broader context to observers/data consumers about the specific phenomenon of interest, as well as the monitoring field in general.

Graduate Advisor: Dr. S. J. Ben Yoo - Next Generation Networking Systems Laboratory -

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	A Survey of Architectural Design and Implementation Tradeoffs in Network on Chip Systems
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	A Sensor Observation Service for Network Distributed Sensor Webs
	The basis for this project was an investigation of the feasibility of a Sensor Observation Service for the NASA Advanced Test Technologies Group at Dryden Flight Research Center. The sensor observation service (SOS) framework, initially proposed by the Open Geospatial Consortium, is to take the place of a proposed intermediary layer between systems which collect data directly from sensor constellations and those which consume such data. By providing a standard operational interface for both producer and consumer entities to interact with this SOS layer, heterogeneous sensor constellations may produce data along with contextual information in a set format, thereby allowing for automated data retrieval by any consumer entity which is OGC SOS compliant.
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	I-Scan Project: Geographically Distributed Imaging Sensor Web for Bandwidth Constrained Links
	The CSUS I-Scan Group was an undergraduate senior project group tasked with the research and creation of a Video-On-Demand distributed network computing system for NASA Earth Sciences. As the group lead, Dan directed the research and development of this distributed sensor web system-of-systems, which links multiple geographically distributed image-sensor locations and makes them available for observation over the internet in near real-time. Furthermore, the system is somewhat tolerant of narrow bandwidth contraints. This functionality is crucial to successful implementation, which will occur onboard a NASA Earth Sciences unmanned aerial vehicle for environmental mapping of a particularly inhospitable location in Antarctica.
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	NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP) 2005
	For his tenure as an undergraduate researcher at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, the project Dan was involved with entailed the use of a rudimentary airborne sensor web to analyze and track tropical storm systems. For his research project, he performed an analysis and characterization of the network link behavior between the sensor web and the ground station hundreds of miles away. Also investigated, were the effects of the intermediate communication relay satellites on network connectivity.
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D. Marconett. "A Prototype Network-Distributed Sensor Web Observation Service." Aero Associates Project Paper No. SOS-Study-DMarconett-17July06. July, 2006.
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D. Marconett, S. Johnson, S. Bemus, R. Jarvinen, D. Potter, L. Freudinger. "Distributed Image-Sensor Web Managment For Bandwidth Constrained Environments." I-Scan Project Paper No. lcf8May. May, 2006.
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L. Freudinger, D. Marconett. "Baseline Performance of an Over-the-Horizon Sensor Web for Suborbital Earth Science Applications." NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Paper: Marconett-ESCD-OTH-TM-0503. August, 2005.
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