CICSR Computer Communications and Systems Seminar - 14 June 1999

Dave Michelson (dmichelson@ieee.org) Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:50:27 -0700 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:50:27 -0700
From: Dave Michelson <dmichelson@ieee.org>
Subject: CICSR Computer Communications and Systems Seminar - 14 June 1999



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You are invited to attend:

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Seminar on Ad Hoc (Multihop) Wireless Mobile Networking & Computing
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Presented by: 	Prof. C-K. Toh
		School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
		Georgia Insitute of Technology, U.S.A.
		www.ece.gatech.edu/~cktoh

Date:		Monday, June 14, 1999
Time:		10:30 am
Place:		CS/CICSR Room 208

		Refreshments will be provided before the seminar.

Abstract
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	Wireless communications, wireless access and wireless networking 
are essential elements to support mobile computing.  Just as the saying 
`the network is the computer', wireless networking is mobile computing. 
Performing work on a laptop is not truly mobile computing since there is 
no provision for information 'push' and 'pull' capability. The ability 
to be networked anytime and anywhere results in no boundaries in the way 
we communicate and work. Devices nowadays are getting more intelligent 
and autonomous - they are gradually being `detached' from the wired 
networks, i.e., the bond between mobile devices and wireless base 
stations are detached. A new paradigm comprising of autonomous mobile 
`network-capable' devices known as ad hoc mobile networking has evolved. 
This seminar provides insights into a new ad hoc routing protocol know
as 
Associativity-based Long-lived routing.  ABR is a source-initiated 
on-demand routing protocol which exploits the spatial, temporal, 
connection and signal characteristic for routing.  Selecting routes that 
are long-lived is the key feature of ABR, which is different from 
traditional routing based on shortest path. This seminar will discuss
the 
protocol characteristics, followed by information about implementation 
experience and a video clip illustrating the field trial of ad hoc 
wireless networking on Georgia Tech campus.


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C-K. Toh's Brief Biography
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Born in Singapore (1965), C-K Toh was educated at the EEE department, 
University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology and the 
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, England, in electrical 
engineering and computer science. His cambridge Ph.D. was focused on 
'Protocol Aspects of Mobile Radio Networks'. Dr. Toh founded and chaired 
the Cambridge Mobile Special Interest Group from 1994-1996. He works on 
several aspects of mobile networks (routing, protocols, algorithms, 
mobility management, etc). He is also working on ATM for home, local and 
wide area. Prior to Cambridge, C-K was a Network Specialist, R&D
Engineer 
and Technical Staff Member, working on multi-media communications over 
Broadband ISDN. At Cambridge, C-K was an Honorary Cambridge Commonwealth 
Trust Scholar and King's College Cambridge Research Scholar. Dr. Toh is 
the inventor of the Cambridge Ad Hoc mobile routing protocol, which is 
currently pending a US patent. He authored the book on ``Wireless ATM & 
Ad-Hoc Networks'' which was published by Kluwer Academic Press. Dr. Toh 
is an Area Editor on wireless networking for IEEE Communications Survey 
Journal, a Feature Editor for ACM Mobile Computing & Communications 
Review and serves as an editorial board member for IEEE Network Magazine 
and Springer-Verlag Personal Technologies Journal. Dr. Toh is a Member 
of Sigma Xi Honor Society, New York Academy of Science, American 
Association for Advancement of Science, IEE, IEEE, ACM, USENIX, and a 
Senior Member of King's College Cambridge and a Fellow of the Cambridge 
Commonwealth Society and Fellow of Cambridge Philosophical Society. C-K 
serves as a panel member for Wireless Communications Research at the 
National Science Foundation (NSF) and is listed in International Who's 
Who of Professionals (1997) and Who's Who in Information Technology 
(1998). C-K was with Hughes (USA) leading research work on ad hoc 
wireless networks, satellite and wireless ATM networks. He was Project 
Technical Leader for DARPA TTO 'Deployable & Adaptive Ad Hoc Mobile 
Wireless Networks (DAMAN)' program. As of 1998, he joined Georgia 
Institute of Technology as an assistant professor of Electrical and 
Computer Engineering, directing the mobile multimedia and networking 
laboratory. Prof. Toh is a registered Chartered Electrical Engineer 
(CEng), UK. 

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Victor C. M. Leung                                  phone: (604)822-6932
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering      fax:     (604)822-5949
The University of British Columbia           e-mail:     vleung@ieee.org
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4       www: http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~vleung
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