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Urban Mesh Networks: Coming Soon to a City
Near You
Edward Knightly,
Professor
Rice University
Abstract
By 2010 an estimated 1,500 cities world
wide will have deployed multi-hop
wireless mesh networks. In this talk, I
will describe the state-of-the-art and
road ahead for large-scale urban mesh
networking, including protocols,
platforms, emerging applications,
research challenges, and case studies. I
will draw on our experiences from
deployment and operation of a high
density urban mesh network in Houston
and on the City of Houston's plans to
build one of the world's largest mesh
networks covering 620 square miles.
Biography
 Edward Knightly
is a professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Rice University.
He joined Rice in 1996 and was a
visiting professor at EPFL in Lausanne,
Switzerland in 2003. He received the
B.S. degree from Auburn University in
1991 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from
the University of California at Berkeley
in 1992 and 1996 respectively. Dr.
Knightly received the National Science
Foundation CAREER Award in 1997 and has
been a Sloan Fellow since 2001.
Dr. Knightly is an associate editor for
multiple journals including IEEE
Transactions on Mobile Computing,
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and
the Computer Networks Journal, and
served as guest editor for the IEEE
Journal on Selected Areas of
Communications Special Issue on
Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks. He is
serving as general chair of ACM MobiSys
2007, and served as technical co-chair
of IEEE INFOCOM 2005, the 2005 ACM
SIGCOMM Workshop on Experimental
Approaches to Wireless Network Design
and Analysis (E-WIND), and IEEE/IFIP
IWQoS 1998. He regularly serves on the
program committee for numerous
networking conferences including IEEE
ICNP, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM MobiCom, and ACM
SIGMETRICS.
Dr. Knightly's research interests are in
the areas of mobile and wireless
networks and high-performance and
denial-of-service resilient protocol
design. His experimental research
includes deployment and operation of a
programmable 2,000 user urban mesh
network in Houston, TX, and design of a
high-performance FPGA platform for
clean-slate wireless protocol design.
His protocol designs include fairness
mechanisms that are now part of the IEEE
802.11s mesh and IEEE 802.17 packet ring
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