Working Groups

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Working Groups

• Mesh Networking Summing
• June 24, 2004

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Goals

• Get a better understanding of the problem space
• and state of the art
• Identify research opportunities

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Guidelines

• Duration 1 hour 45 minutes
• Group leaders already identified
• Elect a notes taker
• Elect a presenter
• Suggested procedure
• Give each member 3-5 minutes to state their
  position( lt 45 minutes)
• Open discussion ( gt 45 minutes)
• Summarize conclusions (15 minutes)

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WG Report

• Suggested Outline
• Define the problem space, application scenarios
• Assess state of the art
• Focus on facts!
• Identify challenges / research opportunities
• Prioritize, we want to know the top three.
• Focus on Neighborhood Mesh Networks, Residential
  Broadband Access
• How to evaluate solutions?
• How would we know when we have solved the
  problems?
• Predictions for the future?
• Timeline 5 years 10 years

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After the WG

• Each WG presents its report (12 minutes per WG)
• 30 minutes for open discussion following WG
  reports
• Hand over notes to Nitin Vaidya
• Your notes and presentation will be available to
  the rest of the community
• A report will be compiled based on the
  notes.Your help will be solicited when preparing
  the report.

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Working Groups

• Group 1 Mesh Capacity
• Group 2 Mesh Connectivity
• Group 3 Mesh Security and Management
• Group 4 Mesh Distributed Services IP
  Networking
• If you do not see your name in the WG members,
  let
• Nitin know which group you would like to join

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Mesh Capacity WG

• Meeting Room Ballroom
• Topics Directional antennas, MAC PHY design,
  interference management, multi-radio systems,
  channel management, link estimation, cognitive
  radio, power management, capacity estimation, 60
  GHz wireless etc.
• Group Leader Nitin Vaidya
• Participants Bahl, Dunagan, Freebresyser, Haley,
  Kumar, Krishnamurthy, Kyasanur, Niknejad, Popoff,
  Sabharwal, Stratford, Wolman, Yao

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Mesh Connectivity WG

• Meeting Room Falls Terrace
• Topics Routing, metrics, topology control
• Group Leader David Johnson
• Participants Anand, Belding-Royer, Burke, Das,
  Draves, Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Morris, Padhye,
  Srikrishna, Srivatsava, Stanforth

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Mesh Distributed Services IP Networking WG

• Meeting Room Atrium
• Topics Clock synchronization, distributed naming
  services, address assignment/auto-configuration,
  P2P, fairness, quality of service
• Group Leader Ion Stoica
• Participants Chandra, Erwin, Ginchereau, Kurose,
  Padmanabhan, Shenker, Zill

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Mesh Security Management WG

• Meeting Room Vintage
• Topics Information distribution, fault
  detection, isolation, diagnosis and management,
  incentives, security
• Group Leader David Wetherall
• Participants Adya, Arbaugh, Burgess, Hubaux,
  Jukan, Kelly, Savage, Qiu, Rao

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Next break 330WG Reports 400Thats
all !