IEEE INFOCOM 2006 Tutorials
"Wireless Mesh
Networking" Abstract Wireless mesh networks are multihop networks of wireless router platforms. The wireless routers are typically stationary, but the clients can be mobile. A mesh network can provide multihop communication paths between wireless clients – serving as a community network or as a broadband access network for the Internet. Wireless mesh networks are considered cost-effective alternatives to wireless LANs, as there is no necessity to deploy any wired infrastructure to support a mesh network. With the plummeting cost of 802.11-based hardware platforms, wireless mesh networking is gaining ground with several industry players developing 802.11-based mesh networking platforms and services. Large-scale, metropolitan wide mesh networks are also planned. There
are several technical challenges that must be addressed for mesh
networking to be as effective as any other form of broadband
networking. Much of these challenges relate to multihop wireless
communication and limited capacity.
This tutorial is designed to
introduce essential mesh networking concepts, lay down the
technological challenges and describe how the research community is
addressing them. We will explore the issues associated to each layer
of the protocol stack as well as various approaches that span across
layers, such as capacity and fairness issues. We will also discuss
the experiences and lessons learnt from various experimental
testbeds, as well as standards activities. Techniques to build simple
mesh network platforms will be explained. Intended Audience The intended audience includes students and faculty in universities interested in study and research in mesh networking, and industry practitioners interested in research and development of mesh networking products, systems and applications. Basic computer networking knowledge is assumed. Outline
Biography Samir R. Das is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department in the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1994. His research interests include wireless multihop networking including ad hoc, mesh and sensor networks, performance evaluation and parallel discrete event simulation. He has published more than sixty refereed research articles on these topics. Samir Das received the U.S. National Science Foundation’s CAREER award in 1998. He has been a speaker in the Distinguished Visitor program of the IEEE Computer Society during 2001-03. He co-chaired the program committee for the ACM MobiHoC Symposium in 2001 and ACM MobiCom Conference in 2004. He currently serves on the editorial board of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks Journal and the Ad Hoc Networks journal. For more information, please visit his web page: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~samir. |
"Internet
Measurement" Yuval Shavitt Tel Aviv U., Israel Abstract The
Internet is a vital
tool in all aspects of today's life. However,its operation is far from
been optimal, and in some cases satisfactory. In order to understand
its operation and suggest waysto improve it, one needs to know the
fundamental characteristics of the interactions in the network at all
levels: packets, flows,devices, and entire networks. However, the
Internet was not built with measurement as a fundamental feature, thus
tools and techniques had to be built to enable measuring and analyzing
various aspects of its operations. Biography Yuval Shavitt received the B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (cum laude), M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, and D.Sc. from the Technion ---Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel in 1986, 1992, and 1996, respectively. From 1986 to 1991, he served in the Israel Defense Forces first as a system engineer and the last two years as a software engineering team leader. After graduation he spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Between 1997 and 2001 He was a Member of Technical Stuff at the Networking Research Laboratory at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ. Starting October 2000, Dr. Shavitt is a faculty member in the School of Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University. He published 27 journal papers and over 40 conference papers, and holds close to 10 US, Canadian, European and Japanese patents. Dr. Shavitt served as TPC member for INFOCOM 2000 - 2003, 2005, IWQoS 2001 and 2002, ICNP 2001, MMNS 2001,and IWAN 2002 - 2005, and on the executive committee of INFOCOM 2000, 2002, and 2003. He is also the organizer of a DIMACS Workshop on Internet and WWW Measurement, Mapping and Modeling, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA, February, 2002, and the International Workshop on New Advances of Web Server and Proxy Technologies, Providence, RI, USA, May 2003. He served as a leading guest editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issue on Internet and WWW Measurement, Mapping, and Modeling; and as a co-editor of a special issue on Web Servers and Content Distribution Networks (CDN) in the Journal of World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. Dr. Shavitt was involved in the design of the IDMaps (Internet distance maps) project and is now leading the DIMES project to map and monitor the Internet using distributed software agents. DIMES, which was launched in September 2004, has increased the known AS level Internet connectivity by about 50% in its first year of operation. |
"Availability-Based
Service Provisioning in Optical Networks" Dominic Schupke Siemens, Munich Abstract Every optical transport network service is subject to potential outage caused by failures within the network. Using different recovery mechanisms, the availability of a service can be improved, in order to achieve a desired availability level for the customer. This availability level is typically fixed in a service level agreement (SLA) between the customer and the network operator. In traditional approaches, paths in the network are provisioned without inclusion of the service availability. In a subsequent step the service availability is calculated and its availability satisfaction is checked. Further consideration is needed if the desired availability is not reached. Novel approaches take service availability directly into account. Thus, the path design can guarantee that target availabilities are met. The aim is to achieve design optimality subject to availability constraints, which are, however, often challenging because of their non-linear nature. Several solutions have been recently proposed. After establishing a terminology and model framework, the tutorial summarizes these approaches and identifies further research issues within the field. Many of the methodologies do not only apply to optical networks, but are also usable for other network technologies. Biography Dominic
A. Schupke studied
electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen
University, Germany and at Imperial College London, UK. He received his
Dipl.-Ing. degree from RWTH Aachen in 1998. From 1998 to 2004 he was
research and teaching staff member of the Institute of Communication
Networks at Munich University of Technology (TUM),Germany. He received
the Dr.-Ing. degree (with distinction) from TUM in 2004. At the
institute, he was involved in research projects with both industrial
and academic partners. In summer 2003, he was visiting researcher at
TRLabs, Edmonton, Canada. In 2004, he joined the research and
development department of Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich.
There, he is Senior Research Scientist and project leader. His research
interests are in the area of transport |
"Using
the Open
Network Laboratory" Jonathan Turner WUSTL, MO, USA Abstract The
Open Network Laboratory (www.onl.wustl.edu)
is a resource designed to enable experimental evaluation of advanced
networking concepts in a realistic operating environment. The
laboratory is built around a set of open-source, extensible, high
performance routers, that can be accessed by remote users through a
Remote Laboratory Interface (RLI). The RLI allows users to configure
the testbed network, run applications and monitor those running
applications using built-in data gathering mechanisms. Support for data
visualization and real-time remote display is provided. The RLI also
allows users to extend the functionality of the system by adding
plugins that run on embedded processors at each router port. Plugins
can re-direct packets to different destinations, modify packet
contents, make copies of packets and can interact with the hardware
forwarding mechanisms to modify how the hardware handles specific
packet flows. The hardware provides wire speed packet filtering and a
flexible queueing subsystem that can be used to provide bandwidth
guarantees to selected flows or flow aggregates. The routers are
architecturally similar to high performance commercial routers,
enabling researchers to evaluate their ideas in a more realistic
context than can be provided by PC-based routers. The Open Network
Laboratory is designed to provide a setting in which systems
researchers can evaluate and refine their ideas and develop compelling
demonstrations. Biography Jonathan
S. Turner
received the MS and PhD degrees in computer science
from Northwestern University in 1979 and 1981. He holds the Henry Edwin
Sever Chair of Engineering at Washington University, and is Director of
the Applied Research Laboratory, which carries out advanced networking
research and is concentrating on
technologies for high performance,
dynamically extensible networks. |
"Mobile
Ad Hoc
Networks: Routing, MAC, and Transport Issues" Nitin Vaidya UIUC, IL, USA Abstract When
designing mobile ad hoc networks, several interesting and difficult
problems arise due to shared nature of the wireless medium, limited
transmission range of wireless devices, node
mobility, and energy
constraints. This tutorial will present an overview of selected issues
related to medium access control (MAC), routing, and transport in
mobile ad hoc networks, including some interaction between the
different layers of the protocol stack. Selected techniques to improve
performance of MAC, routing and transport protocols will be discussed. The
topics covered include:
Biography Nitin
Vaidya received the Ph.D.
from the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst. He is presently an Associate Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(UIUC). He has held visiting positions at Microsoft Research, Sun
Microsystems
and the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay.
His current
research is in wireless networking and mobile computing. He co-authored
papers that received awards at the ACM MobiCom and Personal Wireless
Communications (PWC) conferences. Nitin's research has been funded by
various agencies, including the National Science Foundation, DARPA,
Motorola, Microsoft Research and Sun Microsystems. Nitin Vaidya is a
recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Nitin
has served on the committees of several conferences, including as
program co-chair for 2003 ACM MobiCom and General Chair for 2001 ACM
MobiHoc.
He has served as an editor for several journals, and presently serves
as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. |