Events - Colloquia & Seminars

CCIS Colloquium Spring 2005

Wireless LAN: Measurement and Analysis

Speaker: Guanling Chen (Dartmouth University)

Date: April 25, 2005

Talk: 2:00 p.m. 366 WVH

Abstract

Wireless LANs are increasingly deployed because they are convenient, flexible, and relatively cheap. The ubiquitous wireless coverage enables anytime and anywhere information access and user interactions. In this talk, I will first describe the measurement data we have collected from a production wireless network deployed at Dartmouth College. Currently we have more than 550 access points (APs) covering the whole campus and we are moving toward 1000+ AP deployment. The availability of this measurement data has enabled many exciting research efforts in different fields. I will present analysis results of users' frequent and periodic movement patterns on campus, which could be used to build better mobility model, to detect network anomalies, and to predict user movement. If time permits, I will also briefly discuss some other analysis results. This is a joint work with Dartmouth wireless team led by David Kotz.

Biography

Guanling Chen currently is an I3P Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College and will join Department of Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Lowell in the Fall. His research interests include wireless networks, pervasive systems, and cyber security. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College in 2004.