Illinois Center for Wireless Systems (ICWS)

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Illinois Center for Wireless Systems (ICWS)

• www.icws.uiuc.edu

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Wireless Through the Ages
Smoke signals (Great Wall 700 BC)
Homing pigeons, 1150 AD
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Changing Landscape

• Decreasing costs are driving wireless usage
• Denser deployments wireless everywhere

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Wireless Everywhere

• A Free Mesh Network for San Francisco

• FDA, Companies Test RFID Tracking
• to Prevent Drug Counterfeiting

• A Turf Fight for the Airwaves The Military
  Holds.
• Wireless Is Hungry. Small Users Worry.

• For India's Traditional Fishermen,
• Cellphones Deliver a Sea Change

• Africa's Cellphone Explosion
• Changes Economics, Society

Headlines in the press
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Changing Landscape

• wireless everywhere
• Increasing demand for capacity, coverage,battery
  life,lower costs,
• Many applications

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Diverse Scenarios
Mesh / Ad Hoc
infrastructure

• Web
• Multimedia
• E-commerce
• Surveillance
• Games
• Military apps

Sensor networks
Vehicular
Body/Personal Area networks
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Future Wireless Communication

• Need to investigate fundamentally new approaches
  to design future wireless systems
• Adaptability (to applications environment)
• Co-existence convergence of heterogeneous
  devices
• Seamless mobility
• Energy efficiency
• Security Privacy Location-awareness
• Innovations needed from antennas-to-applications

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Illinois Center for Wireless Systems

• Supporting activities
• Seminars
• Workshops
• Scholarships
• Short courses
• Point-of-contactfor industry
• Industry-funded research scholarships
• Joint federal contracts with industry
• Host visitors from industry

• Consolidate wireless research at Illinois
• Long history of high visibility research
• Fostercross-disciplinary research with a systems
  view

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Illinois Center for Wireless Systems
Antennas/Circuits/ Architecture Sarita V.
Adve Jennifer Bernhard Deming Chen Yun
Chiu Milton Feng Ada Poon Elyse
Rosenbaum Naresh Shanbhag
Network Algorithms Tamer Basar Chris
Hadjicostis Bruce Hajek Jennifer Hou P.
R. Kumar Sean Meyn R. S. Sreenivas R.
Srikant Venu Veeravalli
Security Tamer Basar Richard
Blahut Roy Campbell Carl Gunter
Chris Hadjicostis Yih-chun Hu
Ravishankar K Iyer Klara Nahrstedt
William H. Sanders Nitin H. Vaidya
PerformanceModeling /Simulations Jennifer
Hou Ravi Iyer David Nicol William H.
Sanders
Communication Systems Richard Blahut Todd
Coleman Minh Do Douglas Jones Olgica
Milenkovic Pierre Moulin Ada Poon Dilip
Sarwate Andrew Singer Venu Veeravalli
Pramod Viswanath
Network Protocols Tarek Abdelzaher
Intranil Gupta Jennifer Hou Robin Kravets
Haiyun Luo Klara Nahrstedt C.
Polychronopoulos Nitin Vaidya Benjamin Wah
Applications /Middleware Gul Agha
Indranil Gupta Klara Nahrstedt
gt 35 Faculty
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This Symposium

• Objectives Provide an overview of wireless
  research at Illinois Improve
  connections with industry
• Agenda Presentations by faculty
  Posters/demos by students Industry talks
  (in 3 parallel tracks)

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Attendees

• Andrew Corporation
• Arada Systems
• BAE Systems
• BBN Technologies
• Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
• CUWiN Foundation
• US Dept. of Defense
• Deutsche Telekom Labs
• Eaton Corp.
• Foundation Capital
• HRL Laboratories
• Intel
• Intelligent Automation
• Kimberly-Clark
• Microsoft Research

• MITRE Corporation
• Motorola
• NEC Labs America
• Northrop Grumman
• OJC Technologies
• Pavlov Media
• Philips Research
• Qualcomm
• Rambus
• Robert Bosch
• Rockwell Collins
• Samsung Electronics
• Texas instruments
• Toyota Technical Center
• Vodafone

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Acknowledgements
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Acknowledgements

• Lila Rhoades
• Barbara Horner
• Beth Dennison
• Dan Jordan
• Michael Chan