[Nets-seminars] London-Networking talk: Wenjun Hu, MSR-A , 4pm Friday 7th Dec, UCL

[Richard G. Clegg]

Time:Friday 7th December 2012 , 4pm

Location: Marconi Room (1103), Roberts Building (Engineering)
This building requires card access.  If you are not a member of staff at 
UCL please meet at 66-72 Gower Street at 3:55pm.

Title: Scaling wireless services

Abstract:

Wireless systems have been growing at an amazing pace, in terms of 
physical layer capability, application demands, and infrastructure and 
management cost. The latest boost in physical layer capability comes 
from MIMO-OFDM technologies. However, our 802.11n based channel 
measurements show the extent typical indoor MIMO-OFDM channels are often 
less than ideal, which has implications for building efficient wireless 
services over such channels. In this talk, I will describe several 
projects that aim to improve the efficiency of the physical layer 
transmissions, video delivery, and a large scale WLAN respectively, all 
motivated by the same observation of imperfect channel.

Bio:

Wenjun Hu received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of 
Cambridge in 2008 and was then a postdoc at University of Washington 
until 2010. Since then, she has been a researcher at Microsoft Research 
Asia. Her work has mainly focused on building wireless networks, 
including wireless video, MIMO, and network coding in wireless mesh 
networks.

-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/