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Title: The Importance of Being Earnest *


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The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Nitin Vaidya
  • Illinois Center for Wireless Systems
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NSF Workshop, Reston, Virginia, August 27,
2007 With apologies to Oscar Wilde
2
Session Agenda
  • Current status where we are now
  • Future expectations on wireless networking and
    research challenges
  • Desired technology advances/breakthroughfrom the
    physical layer
  • New advances needed from theoretical
    perspective

3
Likely Outcomes
  • More funding
  • More theory
  • More practice
  • More cross-layer research
  • More targeted research programs

More of everything
4
Likely Outcomes
  • More funding
  • More theory
  • More practice
  • More cross-layer research
  • More targeted research programs

More of everything
5
The Vanishing Link
  • Diversity muddles the notion of a link

Spatial
Cooperation
Channel
2005
6
Layers All The Way Down
Where does Phy/Link layer end ?
What should or shouldnt it do ?
7
The Way Forward
  • Clearly, more attention to phy / theory
    desirable
  • Cross-Layer protocols smarter
    everything (antennas, radios, protocols,
    people)

8
Net-XMulti-Channel MeshTheory to Practice
9
The Way Forward
  • Clearly, more attention to phy / theory
    desirable
  • Cross-Layer protocols smarter
    everything (antennas, radios, protocols,
    people)
  • If we have known this for years, why do
    protocols lag so far behind ?

10
What Do We Really Lack ?
  • Funding ?
  • Manpower ?
  • Theory ?

Probably none of the above
11
What Do We Really Lack ?
12
What Do We Really Lack ?
  • Meaningful contact between
  • Practice
  • Networking
  • Theory
  • Comm

13
One-Point Agenda
Four
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1. Educate BetterOurselves Next Generation
  • Reduce the unknown unknowns
  • Increase phy content in CS/CE networking courses
  • Awareness of phy necessary to ask better
    questions
  • Phy community should help
  • Educate phy students about higher layer issues

15
2. Fewer Research Programs
  • Resist temptation to create new networking
    programs
  • Partitioning of resources creates false demand
  • Remove existing partitionsPossible to encourage
    research without these
  • Examples NOSS, FIND?
  • Encourage projects with PIs spanning different
    communities (phy-networks)
  • Actively monitor/encourage real cooperation

16
3. Fewer Better Conferences
  • Increase venues that encourage diversecommunity
    interactions(phy-networking , theory-applied)
  • More Workshops, fewer selective conferences
  • Co-located conferences
  • Tutorials
  • Eliminate most (wireless) networking conferences
  • Emulate Info Theory model ?

17
4. Greater Industry/User Feedback
  • What are the industry-perceived long-term
    challenges ?
  • What do they need from us ?
  • Invite them to these workshops!
  • Not everything needs to be dictated by industry,
    but practical insights can benefit academic
    research
  • Problem formulations constrained by reality

18
Summary
  • Wireless networking is non-trivial
  • Better-trained people key to better solutions
  • Enable cross-layer researchand eliminate
    artificial boundaries,politics notwithstanding
  • Be earnest about the goals !
  • We dont want to be discussing this again in 2
    years

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Thanks!
  • nhv_at_uiuc.edu
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