Illinois Center for Wireless Systems (ICWS)

1. Illinois Center for Wireless Systems (ICWS) www.icws.uiuc.edu

2. Cellular, Wi-Fi Wireless Through the Ages Smoke signals (Great Wall 700 BC) Homing pigeons, 1150 AD

3. Changing Landscape • Decreasing costs are driving wireless usage • Denser deployments… wireless everywhere

4. Wireless Everywhere A Free Mesh Network for San Francisco FDA, Companies Test RFID Tracking to Prevent Drug Counterfeiting A Turf Fight for the Airwaves; The Military Holds. Wireless Is Hungry. Small Users Worry. For India's Traditional Fishermen, Cellphones Deliver a Sea Change Africa's Cellphone Explosion Changes Economics, Society Headlines in the press

5. Changing Landscape • … wireless everywhere • Increasing demand for capacity, coverage,battery life,lower costs, … • Many applications

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

7. 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

8. 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 Illinois Center for Wireless Systems

9. Illinois Center for Wireless Systems Antennas/Circuits/ Architecture * Sarita V. Adve * Jennifer Bernhard * Deming Chen * Yun Chiu * Milton Feng * Ada Poon * Elyse Rosenbaum * Naresh Shanbhag 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 PerformanceModeling /Simulations * Jennifer Hou * Ravi Iyer * David Nicol * William H. Sanders 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 Applications /Middleware * Gul Agha * Indranil Gupta * Klara Nahrstedt > 35 Faculty

10. 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)

11. 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

12. Acknowledgements

13. Acknowledgements • Lila Rhoades • Barbara Horner • Beth Dennison • Dan Jordan • Michael Chan