| MAC Design for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks | |
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| Ward, Jon ORGANIZER: Burbank, Jack | |
| Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking presents many technical challenges, non less daunting than at the MAC layer. MAC designs must evolve to provide more adaptive, efficient, and scalable channel access. At the same time, MAC designs must have the flexibility and capability to support a wider range of topological characteristics and environments. MAC designs are increasingly required to support mesh topologies. The MAC layer will play an increasingly important role in IP routing. The MAC layer also plays an important role in providing Quality of Service (QoS) for performance-sensitive applications. Future MAC designs for MANETs must incorporate revolutionary new security approaches to mitigate the new class of security threat that faces MANETs (e.g. Byzantine attack). Furthermore, future MAC designs for MANETs must introduce minimal management requirements. This session seeks papers on the following topics: MAC layer security approaches for MANETs, scalable wireless MAC designs, adaptive wireless MAC designs, MAC layer routing approaches, efficient MAC layer designs for MANETs, multi-rate MAC layer designs, and MAC layer QoS technologies for wireless networks. | |
| Jack Burbank received his Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1998 from North Carolina State University and supervises the wireless networking section at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. His recent work is in the areas of wireless network electronic attack, sensor networking, and mobile ad-hoc networking. He is a professor of networking and telecommunications in the Johns Hopkins University Part Time Engineering Program, and a member of the IEEE and the ASEE. | |
| Jon R. Ward received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2003 and M.S degree in Electrical Engineering in 2005 from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. His thesis research focus was on ultra-wideband networks in multipath channels. He currently works as a communications engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. His areas of interest include wireless networking, electronic warfare, and ultra wideband communications. |