Illinois Center for Wireless Systems (ICWS)

www.icws.uiuc.edu

Smoke signals (Great Wall 700 BC)

Wireless Through the Ages

Homing pigeons, 1150 AD Cellular, Wi-Fi 2

Changing Landscape

 Decreasing costs are driving wireless usage  Denser deployments … wireless everywhere 3

Wireless Everywhere

Headlines in the press 4

Changing Landscape

 … wireless everywhere  Increasing demand for capacity, coverage, battery life, lower costs, …  Many applications 5

infrastructure

Diverse Scenarios

Mesh / Ad Hoc Body/Personal Area networks       Web Multimedia E-commerce Surveillance Games Military apps Sensor networks Vehicular 6

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 

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 Innovations needed from antennas -to applications 7

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Illinois Center for Wireless Systems

• Long history of high visibility research  Foster systems view  Supporting activities • • • • Seminars Workshops Scholarships Short courses  Point-of-contact for industry • • • Industry-funded research & scholarships Joint federal contracts with industry 8

Illinois Center for Wireless Systems

Antennas/Circuits/ Architecture Network Algorithms

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Sarita V. Adve

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Jennifer Bernhard

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Deming Chen

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Yun Chiu

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Milton Feng

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Ada Poon

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Elyse Rosenbaum

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Naresh Shanbhag * Tamer Basar * Chris Hadjicostis * Bruce Hajek * Jennifer Hou * P. R. Kumar * Sean Meyn * R. S. Sreenivas * R. Srikant * Venu Veeravalli Communication Systems Network Protocols

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Richard Blahut

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Todd Coleman * Minh Do * Douglas Jones * Olgica Milenkovic * Pierre Moulin * Ada Poon * Dilip Sarwate * Andrew Singer * Venu Veeravalli * Pramod Viswanath * Tarek Abdelzaher * Intranil Gupta * Jennifer Hou * Robin Kravets * Haiyun Luo * Klara Nahrstedt * C. Polychronopoulos * Nitin Vaidya * Benjamin Wah 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

> 35 Faculty

Performance Modeling / 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) 10

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 11

Acknowledgements

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Acknowledgements

     Lila Rhoades Barbara Horner Beth Dennison Dan Jordan Michael Chan 13