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RLE Professor Gregory W. Wornell
and Colleagues Win Major Award from the HP-MIT Alliance to
Support Wireless Networking Research
Cambridge, MA 07.01.2001
 Professor
Gregory
W. Wornell will lead a significant new collaborative inter-laboratory program
funded by the Hewlett-Packard - MIT Alliance in Digital Information Systems.
The program is entitled, "Advanced Concepts in Wireless Networking for
Mobile Devices." This is one of the first projects to be supported
by the HP-MIT Alliance established last year.
This
multi-million dollar effort will span several MIT research laboratories and disciplinary areas, and
serve as the foundation of a new MIT Center for Wireless Networking. Professor
Wornell is joined by Professor Alan
V. Oppenheim of RLE, Professor Anantha
Chandrakasan of RLE and the Microsystems
Technology Laboratories, and Professors Muriel
Medard and Robert
G. Gallager of the Laboratory
for Information and Decision Systems. Professor Hari
Balakrishnan of the Laboratory for
Computer Science will be the liaison from Project
Oxygen.
Professor
Wornell and his collaborators at HP and MIT will address the problem of
efficient wireless networking for mobile appliance applications.
In contrast to the current generation of appliance networks, which are
based largely on stitching together technology from a variety of existing
systems and networks, Professor Wornell's team expects to develop the foundation
of a new generation of wireless mobile network architectures and standards
by exploiting a basic research approach.
A dominant
theme in this project is the notion that in contrast to traditional types
of networks, wireless appliance networks can achieve enormous improvements
in performance and flexibility by accommodating and efficiently exploiting
interaction among the application, network, and physical layers.
This research is expected to impact everything from the design of the appliances
themselves and the services they control, to the design of the network
and server architecture, to the physical and link layer algorithms.
The
MIT researchers will interact closely with the Hewlett-Packard
Laboratories team led by Dr. Susie
J. Wee. The HP team includes Drs. John G. Apostolopoulos, Frederick L. Kitson, and
Mark
Smith. Drs. Wee and Apostolopoulos are recent alumni of
RLE.
HP Labs is one of the world's great industrial research laboratories
and a leader in inventing new technologies. Its focus areas include e-services
and solutions, Internet and computing platforms, printing and imaging technologies,
storage technologies and intelligent information appliances, as well as
broader efforts in alternative technologies and basic research
The
HP-MIT Alliance funding this project is a major collaborative initiative
to innovative ways to create and handle digital information. Programs supported
by the HP-MIT Alliance will investigate new architectures, devices and
user interfaces in information-rich environments, and explore novel services
for commerce, education and personal use.
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