<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,</div><div>we're pleased to be hosting <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Paul Patras from Edinburgh for </span>the next london-networking talk at QMUL, on Friday 22nd. </div>
<div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Title: Throughput Optimal Wi-Fi Virtualisation with Fairness Guarantees</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Venue: Friday 22nd November 11-12pm, QMUL ITL top floor<br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/facilities/view/informatics-teaching-lab">http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/facilities/view/informatics-teaching-lab</a></font><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">If you are coming from outside QMUL, in order to get to the building just turn up around 10:55 and someone should be able to let you in to ITL</span><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Abstract:</div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
As mobile devices are increasingly the preferred choice for Internet access, mobile operators are deploying Wi-Fi access points to increase coverage and offload capacity. In popular locations, such as airports, stadiums and cafés, infrastructure is however frequently managed by local businesses and operators are required to share the limited resources of access points. This talk will expose a wireless LAN virtualisation mechanism that uses control theory tools to guarantee the fair distribution of resources among service providers, while maximising the network throughput. By dynamically adjusting the contention parameters in the virtual networks, the solution will prove effective, independent of the number of associated clients and their level of activity. The talk will close by exploring practical implementation aspects.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Biography:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
Paul Patras is a Chancellor's Fellow / Lecturer in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Hamilton Institute of the National University of Ireland Maynooth. He received his Ph.D. in 2011 from University Carlos III of Madrid and is the first alumnus of the Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain. In 2010, he was a visiting researcher in the Networks Group at Rice University, USA. He has served on the program committees of several conferences and workshops, including IEEE VTC, IEEE WoWMoM and IFIP Networking, and was awarded the IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Reviewer distinction in 2011. His current research interests include performance optimisation in wireless networks, dynamic spectrum access, prototype implementations and testbeds. </div>
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