DIMACS Summer School on Foundations of Wireless Networks and Applications

August 7 - 18, 2000
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:: S. Muthukrishnan, AT&T Labs, muthu@research.att.com; B. Badrinath, Rutgers University, badri@cs.rutgers.edu; Micah Adler, University of Massachusetts, micah@cs.umass.edu

Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Next Generation Networks Technologies and Applications.

Workshop Program:


Week 1

Monday August 7, 2000

9:00 - 10:00 Breakfast and Registration

10:00 - 10:05 Welcome and Greeting:
Mel Janowitz, DIMACS Associate Director

10:05 - 10:30 Welcome and Greeting from Organizers:
S. Muthukrishnan, AT&T Labs
B. Badrinath, Rutgers University
Micah Adler, University of MAssachusetts

Morning Session:

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:00 Introduction of Participants

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

Afternoon Session:

1:30 - 5:00 Zygmunt Haas, Cornell University
Wireless Networks: from Cellular to Ad-Hoc

3:00 - 3:30 Break 

5:00 - 6:00 Wine and Cheese Reception - DIMACS Center Lounge

Tuesday August 8, 2000

9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast

Morning Session:

9:30 - 1:00 Zygmunt Haas, Cornell University
Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

10:30 - 11:00 Break 

1:00 - 2:00   Lunch

Afternoon Session:

2:00 - 5:30 Matthew Andrews, Bell Labs
Algorithmic Issues in Wireless Communications

3:30 - 4:00 Break

Wednesday August 9, 2000

9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast

Morning Session:

9:30 - 12:00 Rittwik Jana, AT&T Labs - Research
Wireless Application Protocols

10:30 - 11:00 Break 

12:00 - 1:30  Lunch

Afternoon Session:

1:30 - 4:30 Christian Scheideler, Paderborn University
Models and Techniques for Communication in Power-Controlled Mobile
Ad-Hoc Networks

3:00 - 3:30 Break

Thursday August 10, 2000

10:00 - 10:30 Breakfast

Morning Session:

10:30 - 11:30 Theodore Johnson, AT&T Labs - Research
Location Based Services

11:30 - 12:00 Open Discussion

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

Afternoon Session:

1:30 - 4:30 Jeff Erickson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Indexing Mobile Points

3:00 - 3:30 Break

Friday August 11, 2000

9:30 - 10:00 Breakfast

Morning Session:

10:00 - 1:00 Thyagarajan Nandagopal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Fair Scheduling in Wireless Networks

11:00 - 11:30 Break

1:00 - 2:00 Lunch


Week 2

Monday August 14, 2000

8:30 - 9:30 Breakfast and Registration

Morning Session:

9:30 - 12:30 Chris Rose, Rutgers University, WINLAB
A Theoretical Tour of Wireless Communications

10:30 - 11:00 Break

12:30 - 1:30  Lunch

Afternoon Session:

1:30 - 5:00 Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angelos
Energy Efficient Wireless Systems

3:00 - 3:30 Break

5:00 - 6:00 Wine and Cheese Reception - DIMACS Center Lounge

Tuesday August 15, 2000

9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast

Morning Session:

9:30 - 12:00 Vinay Vaishampayan, AT&T Labs - Research
Multiple Description Data Compression

10:30 - 11:00 Break

12:00 - 1:30  Lunch

Afternoon Session:

1:30 - 5:00 Pravin Bhagwat, AT&T Labs - Research
Personal Area Networking Over Bluetooth

3:00 - 3:30  Break

Wednesday August 16, 2000

9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast

Morning Session:

9:30 - 12:30 Vaduvur Bharghavan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scheduling and Medium Access Issues in Wireless Packet Networks

1:00 - 2:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session:

2:00 - 5:30 Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern University
Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University
Algorithmic Techniques for Communication, Resource Discovery, and Location
Management in Mobile Networks

3:30 - 4:00 Break

Thursday August 17, 2000

9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast

Morning Session:

9:30 - 1:00 Roy Yates, Rutgers University
Trends in Wireless Data

11:00 - 11:30 Break

1:00 - 2:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session:

2:00 - 2:45 Chandra Chekuri, Bell Labs
Lisa Zhang, Bell Labs
Optimization for GSM Wireless Networks

2:45 - 3:30 Rahul Jain, University of California, Berkeley
Geographical Routing for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

3:30 - 3:45 Break

3:45 - 5:30 Robert Calderbank, AT&T Labs - Research
Time Space Codes

Friday August 18, 2000

9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast

Morning Session:

9:30 - 1:00 Roshdy Hafez, Carleton University
Broadband CDMA Systems

11:00 - 11:30 Break

1:00 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 5:00 Nicolas Schabanel, Rutgers University and AT&T Labs Research
Algorithmic Issues in Delivering Data

5:00 Closing Remarks