Guest Speaker

Heterogeneous Multi-Channel Wireless Networks: Routing and Scheduling Issues

Vartika Bhandari
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

May 15 2008 3:30 pm
480 Dreese Labs
All interested parties are invited to attend.
Refreshments will be served prior to the talk.

Abstract:
Multi-hop wireless networks are increasingly becoming popular and finding application in diverse scenarios such as mesh networks and sensor networks. The broadcast nature of the wireless medium gives rise to interference, which limits performance. To alleviate this, it is becoming common to harness the availability of multiple frequency channels in these networks. However, many routing and scheduling challenges arise when the network comprises devices with heterogeneous channel-switching capabilities. Heterogeneity in channel characteristics further adds to these challenges.

In this talk, I will discuss the implications of such heterogeneity in multi-channel wireless networks, and present some theoretical results on asymptotic capacity scaling, as well as scheduling in networks of realistic scale. I will conclude by briefly touching upon some of my ongoing work on designing protocols for such networks.

Host: Anish Arora

* Vartika Bhandari is a CSE faculty candidate