The Communication Systems Department (DSC) of EPFL is pleased to invite you to its fourth Annual Research Day, which is dedicated to
Mobile Information and Communication Systems (MICS)
Systems that can communicate everywhere do not necessarily need to rely on centralized resources to provide useful services. Such decentralized systems require the ability to be self-organized. These "infrastructure-less" networks of mobile information devices will find many applications, from instant networking abilities in professional environments to bootstrapping communications in disaster areas.
In collaboration with several Swiss institutions, our department has prepared a proposal for a National Competence Center in Research around self-organized Mobile Information and Communication Systems. The presentations will cover selected aspects of this subject, from fundamental questions through networking issues to applications.
Date: Wednesday 5 July 2000
Place: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Room CO1
Participation: free of charge
Registration: required before 15 June 2000
Program
09:10 Opening
Prof. Patrick Aebischer, President of EPFL
09:20 Achievements and ambitions of the new department
Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux, DSC Chairman
09:30 Keynote presentation: Routing in multi-hop wireless ad-hoc networks
Prof. David B. Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
10:00 Self-organized communications and cross-layer interactions
Prof. Martin Vetterli, EPFL-DSC
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Towards self-organized mobile ad-hoc WANs: Terminodes
Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL-DSC
11:30 The wide area perspective for mobile ad-hoc networks
Prof. Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL-DSC
12:00 Network-aware applications: a look at the software side
Prof. Thomas Gross, ETHZ, Computer Science Department
12:30 Distributed information management: from coordination to market-based cooperation
Prof. Karl Aberer, EPFL-DSC
13:00 Buffet lunch
14:00 Laboratory visits
Participants will have the opportunity to visit the DSC laboratories and institutes
