[CPCC] NETSYS/CS Seminar by Mostafa Ammar this Friday 1/27 at 11am

[Athina Markopoulou]

NETWORKED SYSTEMS/COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINAR:

"Life in the WAM Continuum: Investigating fundamental properties of
wireless and mobile networks"

SPEAKER: Prof. Mostafa Ammar
Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

TIME: Friday, January 27th 2012, 11:00am-noon
(refreshments will be served ~10:45am)

LOCATION: Donald Bren Hall 6011

ABSTRACT

Infrastructure-free networking of wireless and mobile nodes is a necessity
in situations where the infrastructure is non-existent or compromised.
They are also increasingly being considered as a viable approach to
off-loading a congested and expensive wireless infrastructure. Until
recently, the vast majority of research in wireless and mobile networks
focused on so-called Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) where relatively
stable end-to-end paths are the norm.  More recently, research has focused
on data delivery techniques in a more realistic Intermittently-Connected
Network (ICN) paradigm, where stable end-to-end paths are the exception. 
In this talk I will first give an overview of ICNs and the types of
challenges involved in their design and operation. I will then discuss our
work in the WAM (wireless and mobile) Continuum Project which is based on
the  simple but powerful observation that MANETs and ICNs fit into a
continuum that generalizes these two previously distinct categories.
Building  on this observation, our work develops a framework that goes
further to scope the entire space of wireless and mobile networks. I will
summarize efforts to answer the following fundamental questions regarding
such networks: 1) How can one describe connectivity properties in a mobile
and potentially intermittently connected network? 2) Do  such networks
have a backbone? 3) How can one enhance the usefulness of mobile network
trace collection exercises? and  4) Can mobile networks compute?

BIO:

Mostafa Ammar is a Regents' Professor with the School of Computer Science
at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been with Georgia Tech
since 1985 and has served as Associate Chair of the School of Computer
Science since 2006. Dr. Ammar received the S.B. and S.M. degrees from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and 1980, respectively and
the Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1985. Dr.
Ammar's research interests are in network architectures, protocols and
services. He has contributions in the areas of multicast communication and
services, multimedia streaming, content distribution networks, network
simulation and, most recently, in disruption-tolerant networks and overlay
network design. He has published extensively in these areas. To date, 29
PhD students have completed their degrees under his supervision; many have
gone on to distinguished careers in academia and industry. Dr. Ammar has
served the networking research community in multiple roles. Most notably,
he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking (ToN) from 1999 to 2003, and he was the co-TPC Chair for the
IEEE ICNP 1997, ACM CoNEXT 2006 and ACM SIGMETRICS 2007 conferences. He
currently serves on the steering committees of ToN and CoNEXT. Dr. Ammar
was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2002 and Fellow of the ACM in 2003.

http://www.cs.uci.edu/research/seminarseries/Speakers/Ammar/profile.php

MEETING THE SPEAKER:

Faculty: please contact Athina (athina at uci.edu) if you would like to meet
the speaker.
Students: you are encouraged to attend the student hour 4-5pm in DBH 3013.