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Professors: Dennis Goeckel, Don Towsley, UMass
Amherst; Benyuan Liu, UMass Lowell; Edmundo A. de Souza e Silva, Daniel Figueiredo, UFRJ, Brazil
Time: Wednesday meetings 1:30pm - 3:30pm (EST)
Room: Computer Science 142
Course Mailing List: cs691rr "at" cs . umass dot edu
Overview
Wireless networks, unlike wireline networks rely on the cooperation of all of the nodes in order to provide seamless end-to-end data transfer. First generation wireless networks, however, depend on very simple forms of cooperation that rely very little on the computational and communication capabilities available to the nodes. This is because first generation networks are based on the wireline unicast store and forward paradigm. This seminar will go beyond this approach to explore a wide variety of techniques to cooperative networking. These will include
- establishment of cooperative links at the physical layer, links implemented by multiple nodes intentionally placing signals simultaneously in the same channel
- cooperative use of in network coding so as to more efficently use bandwidth resources
- establishment of cooperative swarming algorithms at the MAC and the routing layers to provide robustness and more efficient use of bandwidth
- incentive mechanisms to ensure cooperation
This seminar will cover the fundamental physical layer work and emerging wireless network research on these topics, with the goal of bringing participants up to the current state of the art and assisting them in the development of research ideas in this area.
Seminar Requirements
This course can be taken for either one
credit or three credits. In the latter case, a semester project will be
required. The course will require some level of mathematical sophistication - especially UG background in probability theory.
Approval of the instructors is required to register for this seminar.
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