New PhD on "QoS Provisioning for Wireless Sensor Networks: Algorithms, Protocols and Modeling"

Xuedong Liang defended his thesis in a dissertation originating from the Interventional Centre, Oslo Univerity Hospital Rikshospitalet and the Precice Modeling Group, Department of Informatics at University of Oslo on December 21st 2009. The first opponent was Professor Xiaoming Fu, Institute of Computer Science, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, the second opponent was Research Scientist Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory and the commision leader was Associate Professor Martin Steffen, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. The main superviser was Ilangko Balasingham, and co-advisers were Olaf Owe og Einar Broch Johnsen. The university representative at the dissertation was Dag Langmyhr. Xuedong Liang's work included 10 scientific papers (authored and/or co-authored) rated as not trivial by one of the opponents, but rather as improtant contributions on the QoS field. The topic of the trial lecture was Localization in Wireless Networks.