TAPs NSF ITR Retreat

Rice Networks Group, Rice University

May 11, 2006 - Duncan Hall, Rm. 1064

8:45

am

 


Continental Breakfast - DH 1064


 

9:00

am

 


Ed Knightly

Opening Remarks


 

 

 

I. TAPs Platform

 

9:15

am

 


Patrick Murphy

Hardware and MIMO PHY implementation status


 

9:45 am

 


Siddharth Gupta

Radio libraries and platform support


 

 

10:15

am

 


Break


 

 

II. Communication and MAC Protocols

 

10:45

am

 


Farbod Khoshnevis

Protocol overhead


 

 

11:15

am

 


Melodie Chu and Chris Hunter

MAC Implementation


 

11:45

am

 


Lunch

Cohen House - Esther's Room


 

 

1:15

pm

 


Ahmed Khattab

Medium Access Control in MIMO-Based Multi-hop Wireless Networks


 

1:45 pm

 


Jingpu Shi

Synchronized CSMA: model and fairness properties


 

 

III. Hardware Design

 

2:15 pm

 


Marjan Karkooti and Yang Sun

Configurable, High throughput LDPC decoder Architecture for Irregular codes


 

 

2:45 pm

 


Break


 

 

3:00

pm

 


Predrag Radosavljevic and Kiarash Amiri

Iterative detection and decoding for achieving near-capacity: flexible high-throughput MIMO PHY design


 

 

IV. Network Issues

 

3:30 pm

 


Amit Saha

Throughput Improvement in Wireless Mesh Networks


 

 

4:00

pm

 


Joseph Camp

Measurement Driven Deployment of a Two-Tier Urban Mesh Access Network


 

 

V. Closing

 

4:30 pm

 


Ashu Sabharwal

TAPs/WARP - The Road Ahead


 

 

4:50

pm

 


Ed Knightly

Concluding Remarks


 

 

5:00

pm

 


Adjourn


 

 

7:00

pm

 


Dinner - meet at Armadillo Palace

5015 Kirby Drive @ Barlett, Houston, TX 77098

(713) 526-9700 (view map)

http://www.thearmadillopalace.com/index.aspx