*****COMMUNICATIONS/NETWORKING SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT**************
Day/Time: July 8 (Thu), 11-12
Place: EE 403
Improving Transport and Routing Performance in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Nitin Vaidya
Dept. of Computer Science
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
http://www.cs.tamu.edu/faculty/vaidya
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) consist of a collection of
mobile wireless computers. In these networks, different
hosts communicate over wireless links, and messages may traverse
multiple wireless links before reaching their destination. A
mobile ad hoc network can be deployed rapidly because it needs no
infrastructure, making it useful in many applications such as
home networking, search-and-rescue in remote areas, disaster
response, law enforcement and military operations.
Dur to host mobility, route may frequently break in an
ad hoc network. This talk will consider two issues:
* How to perform decrease overhead of route discovery: We
will consider a technique that exploits physical location
information for this purpose.
* How to achieve good TCP throughput despite mobility: We
will consider a technique that uses explicit notifications
from the network layer.
The talk will also summarize research on other related issues.