DATE: Thursday, August 4, 2005
TIME: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
PLACE: CIC 2101
SPEAKER:
Glenn Judd
CMU
TITLE:
Self-Management in Chaotic Wireless Deployments
ABSTRACT:
Over the past few years, wireless networking technologies have made vast forays into our daily lives. Today, one can find 802.11 hardware and other personal wireless technology employed at homes, shopping malls, coffee shops and airports. Present-day wireless network deployments bear two important properties: they are unplanned, with most Access Points (APs) deployed by users in a spontaneous manner, resulting in highly variable AP densities; and they are unmanaged, since manually configuring and managing a wireless network is very complicated. We refer to such wireless deployments as being chaotic. In this work, we present a study of the impact of interference in chaotic 802.11 deployments on end-client performance. First, using large-scale measurement data from several cities, we show that tens of APs are deployed in close proximity of each other. Moreover, most APs are not configured to minimize interference with their neighbors. We then perform trace-driven simulations to show that the performance of end-clients could suffer significantly in chaotic wireless deployments. Furthermore, we argue that end-client experience could be significantly improved by making chaotic wireless networks self-managing. We design and evaluate automated power control and rate adaptation algorithms (for both APs and clients) to minimize interference among neighboring APs, while ensuring robust end-client performance.
BIO:
Glenn Judd is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at
Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests
include wireless networking and pervasive computing.
He has an M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from
Brigham Young University.
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