Mesh Networking Summit 2004

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• Over 30 Years of research
• 1972 Packet Radio NETwork
• 1980s SURvivable Adaptive Radio Network
• Early 1990s GLObal MObile Information System (
  NTDR)
• Mid 1990s IETF MANET
• Many conferences, workshops Journals
• MobiHoc, MobiCom, INFOCOM, SECON, AdHoc, MASS,.
• Many papers, books, lots of excitement

So much research yet so few products why?
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Cliché Scenarios

• Focused on
• Tactical advantage in battle theatre
• Emergency Disaster recovery

Research agenda set by DoD
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Alternative Scenarios

• There are others, that are commercially
  interesting

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Scenarios

• Focus on two scenarios
• Inter-home and Intra-home meshes Neighborhood
  Community Networks
• Residential Broadband Internet Access in hard to
  reach areas

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Questions to consider

• Are these reasonable scenarios?
• What is the true state of art for wireless meshes
• (Separate fact from fiction)
• Have we identified the right set of technical
  problems? (whats missing)
• Can we separate research from engineering
• What are the limits of current technologies? What
  can we expect / hope for from future Technologies
  -- Timelines
• What are the top n problems we should to be
  solving
• How should we go about solving these problem

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Technologies

• Why cant we simply borrow? Why reinvent?
• Different constraints
• Spectrum, transmission power, size, cost, etc.
• Perhaps academics working with industry can do it
  better ?

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Meshing Together
Academia
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Who is here

• Academic Institutes
• University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• University of California Berkeley
• The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
  Lausanne (EPFL)
• Rice University
• University of Massachusetts
• University of California San Diego
• University of Maryland
• University of California Santa Barbara
• University of California Santa Cruz
• State University of New York Stony Brook
• University of California Los Angeles
• University of Washington
• International Computer Science Institute
• Government
• National Science Foundation

• Industry
• Intel
• BBN Technologies
• PacketHop Networks
• Honeywell
• Tropos Networks
• MeshNetworks
• SkyPilot
• Kiyon Inc.
• Microsoft
• Microsoft Research
• Advanced Strategy Policy
• Windows Networking
• Windows CE
• Mobile Devices

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Summit GoalsMaking Meshes Real

• Getting to know each other
• Learning and exchanging knowledge
• Agreeing (or disagreeing) on what the future
  looks like
• Identifying challenges prioritizing problems
• Exploring opportunities for collaborations
• Generating a report for the research community

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Working Guidelines

• Take a position
• Keep presentations high level, avoid nitty-gritty
  detail, refer us to your papers
• Share insights and experiences
• Interact !
• Lively discussions are highly encouraged
• Challenge all assertions
• Let us know what you really think

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Day 1 (Listen and Digest)

• Keynote
• 4 Technical Sessions (Salish Ballroom)
• Mesh Architecture
• Mesh Capacity
• Path Selection Mesh Testbeds
• Management Security
• Poster Demos (Fall Terrace)
• 3 product group demos
• 2 research demos
• 10 posters

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Day 2 (Discuss Recommend)

• Keynote
• Panel (Salish Ballroom)
• 4 Brainstorming Sessions
• Capacity (Ballroom)
• Connectivity (Falls Terrace)
• Security Management (Vintage)
• Distributed Services (Atrium)
• Report Back
• Summary Impressions

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Logistics

• Presentations, Video Taping, Web site
• Lunches (Falls Terrace)
• Dinner June 23rd (Host Dan Ling)
• Wireless Internet Access

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Thanks for coming.