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METRANS SEMINAR SERIES

Speaker: Dr. Konstantinos Psounis , Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, USC

Talk Title: Efficient Routing in Vehicular Networks

Abstract: Vehicular ad hoc networks have received attention in recent years for two main reasons. First, there are a number of real-life applications that become possible in the presence of such an ad-hoc infrastructure, such as increasing road safety by reducing the number of accidents as well as reducing their impact in case of non-avoidable accidents, improving local traffic flow and efficiency of road traffic, and offering comfort and business applications to drivers and passengers. Second, it is now technically possible to build such a network. Recent developments in radios, coupled with significant research work in the area of mobile ad-hoc networks, make it likely to build such applications within 5 to 10 years.

While there has been significant effort to define applications, there are still technical challenges that need to be resolved. Perhaps the hardest is how to achieve communication in an environment where network nodes (vehicles) move so fast that the very concept of a wireless link between two nodes is meaningless for time scales larger than a few seconds, and where the density of the nodes can vary drastically, making the network intermittently connected.

To address this challenge, we propose using a new approach of routing that is tailored to the needs of vehicular ad hoc networks, termed mobility-assisted routing. In this seminar, we will introduce you to this new routing.

Wed. Oct. 27| Noon Lunch | 12:20pm Seminar | Lewis Hall(RGL) Rm 209

*Lunch will be provided for RSVPs. Please arrive at 12:00 pm
for lunch. The seminar will start promptly at 12:20 pm.

RSVP*Shawn Gong, TGong@usc.edu by Noon, Tuesday. October 26


Biography: Konstantinos Psounis (PhD in Electrical Engineering, Stanford) is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at USC. He models and analyzes the performance of a variety of networks, including the Internet, mobile ad hoc networks, delay and disruptive tolerant networks, sensor networks, mesh networks, peer to peer networks, and the web. He also designs methods and algorithms to solve problems related to such systems.

Dr. Psounis is the author of more than 60 research papers on these topics and has served on the TPC of many conferences. He has received faculty awards from NSF, CISCO Systems, the METRANS transportation center, and the Zumberge foundation, was a Stanford graduate fellow throughout his graduate studies, and received the National Technical University of Athens best-student award for graduating first in his class. He is a senior member of both IEEE and ACM.

Host: METRANS

Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - Room 209

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Georgia Lum