Professor and Department Chair,
Rice University of Houston - Texas
DEIB - Seminar Room (building 20)
June 8h, 2018
1.30 pm
Contacts:
Luca Mottola
Research Line:
Advanced software architectures and methodologies
With today’s commercial Wi-Fi access points advertising speeds above 1 Gb/sec, Wi-Fi appears to be well capable of handling today’s traffic demands from mobile and wireless clients. Unfortunately, in dense client populations such as in auditoriums, convention centers, and public gathering places, Wi-Fi and LTE can both slow to a crawl, prohibiting video streaming and interactive voice. Moreover, Wi-Fi is yet inadequate for the next generation of demanding applications such as wireless virtual and augmented reality. In this talk, I will describe new foundations for scaling WLAN client density via simultaneous transmission and reception between the access point and multiple clients. I will describe designs, early prototypes, measurement studies, and standards efforts towards realizing this vision. I will focus on challenges in the design of control mechanisms as well as pitfalls that can occur when a legacy single-user uplink is coupled with a multi-user downlink.
Edward Knightly is the Sheafor-Lindsay Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley and his B.S. from Auburn University. He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, a Sloan Fellow, and a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He received best paper awards from ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiHoc, IEEE Communications and Network Security (CNS), IEEE SECON (twice), and the IEEE Workshop on Cognitive Radio Architectures for Broadband. He served as general chair or technical chair for ACM MobiHoc, ACM MobiSys, IEEE INFOCOM, and IEEE SECON. He serves as an editor-at-large for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and serves on the IMDEA Networks Scientific Council.
Professor Knightly’s research interests are in the areas of mobile and wireless networks with a focus on design, performance evaluation, and at-scale field trials. He leads the Rice Networks Group. The group’s projects include deployment, operation, and management of a large-scale urban wireless network in a Houston under-resourced community. This network, Technology For All (TFA) Wireless, has served over 4,000 users in several square kilometers and employs custom-built programmable and observable access points.