[AG-USERS] LANL seminar series - Ad-Hoc/Sensor Networks

[Cindy Sievers]

>
>*** LANL Seminar Series
>***  http://public.ds.lanl.gov/ccs1-seminar
>
>TITLE:
>DRAND: Distributed Randomized TDMA Scheduling For Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
>
>SPEAKER: Prof. Injong Rhee. North Carolina State University, CS Dept.
>          http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rhee/
>
>WHEN: Monday, June 26th, 10:00-11:00am Mountain Standard Time
>
>ABSTRACT:
>Rhee presents a distributed implementation of RAND, a randomized time slot
>scheduling algorithm, called DRAND. DRAND runs in O(d) time and message
>complexity where d is the size of a two-hop neighborhood in a wireless
>network while message complexity remains O(d), assuming that message
>delays can be bounded by an unknown constant. DRAND is the first fully
>distributed version of RAND. The algorithm is suitable for a wireless
>network where most nodes do not move, such as wireless mesh networks and
>wireless sensor networks. We implement the algorithm in TinyOS and
>demonstrate its performance in a real test bed of Mica2 nodes. The
>algorithm does not require any time synchronization and is shown to be
>effective in adapting to local topology changes without incurring global
>overhead in the scheduling. Because of these features, it can also be used
>even for other scheduling problems such as frequency or code scheduling
>(for FDMA or CDMA) or local identifier assignment for wireless networks
>where time synchronization is not enforced.
>
>BIO:
>Injong Rhee received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at
>Chapel Hill. He is an associate professor of Computer Science at North
>Carolina State University. In year 2000, he founded Togabi Technologies,
>INC, a company that develops and markets mobile wireless multimedia
>applications for next generation wireless networks and he was CTO and CEO
>of the company until year 2002. His research interests are computer
>networks, congestion control, wireless networks, multimedia networking,
>distributed systems, and operation systems. He is an inventor of several
>congestion control protocols including TEAR, BIC-TCP and CUBIC. In
>particular, BIC-TCP has received a lot of media attention throughout the
>world and is currently the default TCP algorithm used in Linux 2.6 and up.
>He received NSF Early Faculty Career Development Award in 1999 and New
>Inventor's award from NCSU.


Meeting details can be found at: 
http://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu/meetingdetails.asp?MID=15958
Venue: Hydrogen (on the NCSA venue server)

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Cindy Sievers           Los Alamos National Laboratory
sievers at lanl.gov        Group CCS-1 MS B287
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