USC Invited Workshop on Theory & Practice in Wireless Networks
Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
May 20 - 21, 2008
Day 1 - Tuesday, May 20
Breakfast at Radisson Hotel 8.30 - 8.45am Welcome 8.45 - 9.15 Keynote 1 - Medium Access and Flow Control, Jean Walrand, U.C. Berkeley 9.15 - 10.45 Panel 1 - Using collision-free scheduling: dream or reality? 10.45 - 11.00 Break 11.00 - 12.30pm Panel 2 - Is random access fundamentally inefficient? 12.30 - 2.00 Lunch 2.00 - 2.30 Keynote 2 - Urban Scale Mesh Networks: Measurements, Models, and Protocol Design, Ed Knightly, Rice University 2.30 - 4.00 Panel 3 - What constitutes a useful experimental result? 4.00 - 4.15 Break 4.15 - 5.45 Panel 4 - What constitutes a useful theory result? 6.00 Reception 7.30 Dinner
Day 2 - Wednesday, May 21
Breakfast at Radisson Hotel 8.30 - 9.00am Keynote 3 - Wireless Network Design: Implicit Loss Models, PHY Feedback, Performance Sensitivities, John S. Baras, University of Maryland 9.00 - 10.30 Panel 5 - Cooperation instead of contention! 10.30 - 10.45 Break 10.45 - 11.15 Keynote 4 - Peter Steenkiste, CMU 11.15 - 12.45pm Panel 6 - Medium access in new contexts: reinventing the wheel? 12.45 - 2.00 Lunch