Illinois Center for Wireless Systems (ICWS)

www.icws.uiuc.edu

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Wireless Through the Ages

Cellular, Wi-Fi

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

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

Vehicular

Body/PersonalArea networks

Sensornetworks

infrastructure

Web Multimedia E-commerce Surveillance Games Military apps

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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

Consolidate wireless research at Illinois

•Long history of high visibility research

Fostercross-disciplinary research with a systems view

Supporting activities

•Seminars•Workshops•Scholarships•Short courses

Point-of-contactfor industry

•Industry-funded research & scholarships

•Joint federal contracts with industry

•Host visitors from industry

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Illinois Center for Wireless Systems

> 35 Faculty

Antennas/Circuits/Architecture * Sarita V. Adve * Jennifer Bernhard * Deming Chen * Yun Chiu * Milton Feng * Ada Poon * Elyse Rosenbaum * Naresh Shanbhag

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

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

Applications /Middleware * Gul Agha * Indranil Gupta * Klara Nahrstedt

PerformanceModeling /Simulations

* Jennifer Hou * Ravi Iyer * David Nicol * William H. Sanders

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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