[talks] 1-2pm Fri Dec 12 talk in B-205 on wireless interference by Ramakrishna Gummadi

Jennifer Rexford jrex at CS.Princeton.EDU
Fri Dec 12 07:43:13 EST 2008


Highly recommended for folks interested in randomized algorithms, 
networking, or systems.  Will also include a demo of their FPGA-based 
programmable wireless system...

Speaker: Dr. Ramakrishna Gummadi, MIT
Title: Interference rendered significantly harmless
Location: B205 in the E-Quad (note: talk in ELE wing of E-Quad, *not* in 
CS building)
Date/time: 1-2pm Friday December 12

Abstract: The throughput of existing wireless networks is often
limited by interference. One fundamental reason is that the
current designs are constrained by a "one-transmission-at-a-time"
model at the link layer and a fixed-width spectrum allocation at the
physical layer. We present a new wireless design that exploits traffic
burstiness and node heterogeneity, thereby improving concurrency and
spectrum usage. The main challenge is the unmanaged nature of many
wireless networks such as 802.11 and mesh, which makes centralized
resource allocation impractical. We show through analysis and
implementation that simple randomized allocation policies can overcome
this challenge, and improve throughput by 2x or more.

This work is joint with Rabin Patra, Hari Balakrishnan and Eric Brewer.

Bio: Ramakrishna Gummadi is a post-doc at the MIT Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratoray (CSAIL). He obtained his B.Tech.
from IIT-Madras, M.S. from UC Berkeley and Ph.D. from USC, all in
Computer Science. His dissertation was about reliable and
efficient programming languages for sensor networks. He is interested
in building scalable and reliable systems and networks based on sound
principles. His awards include a UC Regents Graduate Fellowship, a best 
paper
awarded out of all 2001 Journal of Computer Networks papers, a best
poster/demo award at SenSys 2004, and an award at the ACM Student
Research Competition (SRC) held at PLDI 2007.


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