University of Southern California

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

Program

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