US-M-P
Network Science
Swami, Ananthram Sadler, Brian ORGANIZER: Swami, Ananthram Sadler, Brian
Tactical mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are a key component of network centric operations, yet a theory of such networks is still in its infancy. These networks will be subject to severe constraints on energy and bandwidth, and must operate under harsh channel and interference conditions. Many dynamic processes are at work, including traffic patterns, as well as channel and topology variation due to mobility, and these all influence network behavior. This session will address basic underlying questions in the analysis and modeling of military MANETs. These include issues such as the appropriate metrics for performance and dynamics, tractable models that account for the wireless, mobile, and decentralized aspects, fundamental limits, and scaling behavior.
Ananthram Swami received the B.Tech. degree from IIT-Bombay; the M.S. from Rice University, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California (USC), all in Electrical Engineering. He has held positions with Unocal Corporation, USC, CS-3 and Malgudi Systems. He was a Statistical Consultant to the California Lottery, developed a MATLAB-based toolbox for non-Gaussian signal processing, and has held visiting faculty positions at INP, Toulouse. He is currently with the US Army Research Laboratory where his work is in the broad area of signal processing, wireless communications and networking, including both sensor networks and MANETs. Dr. Swami is chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's TC on Signal Processing for Communications, an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He has served as an AE for IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems-II, and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He was co-organizer and co-chair of the 1993 IEEE-SPS HOS Workshop, the 1996 IEEE-SPS SSAP Workshop, and the 1999 ASA-IMA Workshop on Heavy-Tailed Phenomena. He was co-guest editor of a 2004 special issue (SI) of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (SPM) on `Signal Processing for Networking', a 2006 SPM SI on `Distributed signal processing in sensor networks', a 2006 EURASIP JASP SI on Reliable Communications over Rapidly Time-Varying Channels', and a 2006 EURASIP JWCN SI on `Wireless mobile ad hoc networks'. Brian M. Sadler (M'90,SM'02) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, and the PhD degree from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, all in electrical engineering. He is a senior research scientist at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in Adelphi, MD, and lectures at Johns Hopkins University. He is an associate editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and is on the editorial boards for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking and the International Journal of Sensor Networks. He has been a guest editor for IEEE JSAC, and the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, and is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Sensor Array and Multi-channel Technical Committee. His research interests include signal processing for mobile wireless and ultra-wideband systems, and sensor signal processing and networking.