Wireless Networking Primer

Nitin Vaidya, University of Illinois


The talk will include material that will serve as background
for other lectures in the summer school. Topics to be covered
include selected link layer and network layer mechanisms for
wireless networks.


Biography
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Nitin Vaidya received the Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts
at Amherst. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),
and the Director of the Illinois Center for Wireless Systems (ICWS).
He has held visiting positions at the Indian Institute of
Technology-Bombay, Microsoft Research, and Sun Microsystems,
as well as a faculty position at the Texas A&M University.
He co-authored papers that received awards at the 1998 ACM MobiCom,
2007 ACM MobiHoc, and 2003 Personal Wireless Communications (PWC)
conferences. Nitin Vaidya is a recipient of a CAREER award from the
U.S. National Science Foundation. He has served as Editor-in-Chief
for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Editor-in-Chief for
ACM SIGMOBILE publication MC2R, program co-chair for 2003 ACM MobiCom,
and General Chair for 2001 ACM MobiHoc. For more information,
please visit http://users.crhc.illinois.edu/nhv/.