Panel Information
Panel 1 - Using
collision-free scheduling: dream or reality?
[audio]
[video]
There has been significant recent work on
designing optimal scheduling solutions (e.g. TDMA-based). But
there are fundamental questions about the implementability of
such approaches: how to compute them in polynomial time, how to
implement them in a decentralized fashion with low overhead, and
yet stay near-optimal.
Participants:
Eytan Modiano, MIT (moderator)
[slides]
Michael Neely, University of Southern California
[slides]
Tara Javidi, UCSD
[slides]
Anil Vullikanti, Virginia Tech
[slides]
Gil Zussman, Columbia University
[slides]
Panel 2 - Is random
access fundamentally inefficient?
[audio]
[video]
A number of recent studies have raised questions about the
ability of random access to achieve fair and efficient
performance especially in multi-hop scenarios. It is important
to access whether these issues are fundamental or if they are
artifacts of the way random access is implemented and used, and
of the current practice of keeping higher layers unaware of
interference.
Participants:
Gustavo De Veciana, University of Texas at Austin
(moderator)
Elizabeth Belding, University of California Santa Barbara
[slides]
Konstantinos Psounis, University of Southern California
[slides]
Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern University
[slides]
Patrick Thiran, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
[slides]
Panel 3 - What
constitutes a useful experimental result?
[audio]
[video]
Good experimental work can
raise new questions and play an important role in validating or
invalidating assumptions of and results from theoretical work.
At the same time, experimental research faces the criticism of
being driven too narrowly by current hardware limitations and
market realities. Participants:
Martin Haenggi, University of Notre Dame (moderator)
[slides]
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California
[slides]
Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research
[slides]
Injong Rhee, North Carolina State University
[slides]
Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia
[slides]
Panel 4 - What
constitutes a useful theory result?
[audio]
The field has seen a number of theoretical findings varying
from asymptotic results, some with potentially large hidden
constants, to meticulous calculations that model almost all the
details of specific protocols. What kinds of results in this
spectrum are useful in understanding practical issues and then
designing real protocols to address them?
Participants:
JJ Garcia Aluna Aceves, University of California Santa Cruz
(moderator) [slides]
Randall Berry, Northwestern University
[slides]
Mung Chiang, Princeton University
[slides]
Koen Langendoen, Delft University of Technology
[slides]
John Silvester, University of Southern California
Panel 5 - Cooperation
instead of contention!
[audio]
[video]
From physical layer cooperation and coding to the use of
multi-channel radios, recent research has suggested exploiting
simultaneous transmissions instead of treating them as
interference.
Participants:
Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California (moderator)
[slides]
Syed Jafar, University of California Irvine
[slides]
Srikanth Krishnamurthy, University of California Riverside
[slides]
Anna Scaglione, Cornell University
[slides]
Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California Los Angeles
[slides]
Panel 6 - Medium access
in new contexts: reinventing the wheel?
[audio]
[video]
A number of new kinds of wireless systems are emerging, for
example underwater networks, cognitive radio networks, embedded
networks, vehicular networks, and delay tolerant networks. Do
these systems require fundamentally new ways to manage
interference?
Participants:
Kevin Almeroth, University of California Santa Barbara
(moderator) [slides]
John Heidemann, University of Southern California/Information
Sciences Institute
[slides]
Koushik Kar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
[slides]
Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
[slides]
Mani Srivastava, University of California Los Angeles
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