Interference aware routing for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

Speaker: Cristina Comaniciu
Date and Time: November 7, 2007, 2:00PM-3:00PM
Room: HEC 125

ABSTRACT:

This talk addresses the issue of designing interference aware routing protocols for both ad hoc and sensor networks, for improved communication performance. Our talk is centered on showing the benefits of this approach for two different scenarios. For ad hoc networks we show that significant throughput gains and energy savings can be achieved by enforcing interference aware cooperative routing. For sensor networks, interference aware routing can lead to better energy efficiency for packet transmissions, while still preserving important properties such as robustness and high packet delivery ratio.   

BIOGRAPHY:

Cristina Comaniciu received the M.S. degree in electronics from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from WINLAB, Rutgers University in December 2001. From 2002 to 2003 she was affiliated with the Electrical Engineering Department at Princeton University as a research associate, and she is currently assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. She is a  recipient of Stevens Institute of Technology 2004 WINSEC Award for Outstanding Contributions, and recipient of the 2007 IEEE Marconi Best Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications, for a paper co-authored with H. Vincent Poor. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters Journal.