June 23, 2004 – June 24, 2004

Mesh Networking Summit 2004

Location: Snoqualmie, WA, US

Sponsored by Microsoft Research & Microsoft’s Advanced Strategy Group

Click here to download a PDF version of the Technical Program.

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast with Craig Mundie (Falls Terrace)
8:45 – 9:15 Welcome Remarks (Salish Ballroom)

Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President, Microsoft Research
Video
9:15 – 9:30 Opening Remarks – Summit Goals

Victor Bahl, Summit Organizer/Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
PPT (1,775 Kbytes) | Video
9:30 – 10:30 Keynote: A Global Perspective on Mesh Networking,

Craig Mundie, Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President, Advanced Strategy & Policy, Microsoft
PPT (15,077 Kbytes) | Video
10:30 – 10:45 Morning Break – Snacks & Mingling
10:45 – 12:15 Session 1: Architectures & Techniques for Large-scale Wireless Meshes

Session Chair: Alec Wolman
Speakers:

  • SENSE: Scalable and Efficient Networking of Sensor Elements, J.J Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California Santa Cruz)
    PPT (718 Kbytes) | Video
  • Making Radios More Like Human Ears: Alternative MAC Techniques and Innovative Platforms to enable large-scale Meshes, Lakshman Krishnamurthy (Intel Communications Architecture Lab)
    PPT (10,253 Kbytes) | Video
  • Exploiting Diversity in Mesh Networks, Nitin Vaidya (University of Illinios Urbana Champaign)
    PPT (251 Kbytes) | Video
  • Microsoft’s Mesh Networking Research, Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research)
    PDF (3,554 Kbytes) | Video
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch (Falls Terrace)
13:15 – 14:45 Session 2: Understanding and Increasing Mesh Capacity

Session Chair: Venkat Padmanabhan
Speakers:

  • Capacity, Architecture, and Protocols for Wireless Networks, P. R. Kumar (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
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  • Capacity and Fairness in Multihop Wireless Backhaul Networks, Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University)
    PPT (580 Kbytes) | Video
  • New Opportunities in Wireless Communications, Ali M Niknejad (University of California Berkeley)
    PPT (647 Kbytes) | Video
  • Commodity class Phased Array Antennas, Jim Kajiya (Microsoft Research)
    PPT (5,800 Kbytes) | Video
14:45 – 15:30 Research Demos, Posters, Snacks, and Mingling

Session Organizer: Atul Adya
Location: Falls Terrace
Demo/Poster Descriptions

  • Mesh Monitor and Diagnostic Tool
  • Preview of Native WiFi
  • MultiNet: Connecting to Multiple Wireless Networks
  • Routing in Multi-Radio Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks
  • Slotted Seeded Channel Hopping
  • Longhorn Location Platform
  • Quality Windows Audio Video Experience (qWave)
  • Investigating Outdoor 802.11 Performance
  • Secure Routing in Open Networks with secure traceroute
15:30 – 17:15 Session 3: Path Selection and Testbed Studies

Session Chair: Jitu Padhye
Speakers:

  • Stony Brook Mesh Router: Architecting Multi-Radio, Multihop Wireless LANs, Samir Das (Stony Brook University)
    PPT (798 Kbytes) | Video
  • Self-Organizing Hierarchical Routing for Scalable Ad Hoc Networking, David B. Johnson (Rice University)
    PPT (783 Kbytes) | Video
  • MIT Roofnet Performance, Robert Morris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    PPT (2,958 Kbytes) | Video
  • Distributed Monitoring of Mesh Networks, Elizabeth Belding-Royer (University of California Santa Barbara)
    PPT (292 Kbytes) | Video
  • Routing in Multi-Radio, Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks, Richard Draves (Microsoft Research)
    PPT (905 Kbytes) | Video
17:15 – 17:30 Break
17:30 – 19:00 Session 4: Self Management and Security

Session Chair: John Dunagan
Speakers:

  • Security Challenges for Mesh Networks, Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL)
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  • Encouraging Cooperation in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks, David Wetherall (University of Washington)
  • Low-cost 802.11 Wireless Infrastructure Networks, Stefan Savage (University of California San Diego)
    PPT (4,367 Kbytes) | Video
  • Troubleshooting a Wireless Multihop Mesh Network, Lili Qiu (Microsoft Research)
    PPT (212 Kbytes) | Video
19:30 p.m. Dinner (Falls Terrace)

Host: Dan Ling, Vice President, Microsoft Research

Thursday, June 24, 2004

8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast (Falls Terrace)
9:00 – 10:00 Keynote: Pervasive Collaborative Wireless Networking

Jawad Khaki, Vice President, Windows Networking Division
Video
10:00 – 10:30 Morning Break – Snacks and Mingling
10:30 – 12:00 Panel: The Commercial Applications and Applicability of Mesh Technology

Moderator: Jeff Erwin (Microsoft)

Panelists: Scott Burke (PacketHop Networks), Devabhaktuni “Sri” Srikrishna (Tropos Networks), Jim Freebersyser (Honeywell), Peter Stanforth (MeshNetworks), Mani Srivatsava (University of California Los Angeles), Kerry Haley (SkyPilot)
Jim’s PPT (997 Kbytes) | Video
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch (Salish Ballroom)
13:30 – 13:45 Discussion Framework and Deliverables,

Nitin H. Vaidya, University of Illinios Urbana Champaign
Video
13:45 – 15:30 Working Group Breakout Discussions

Mesh Capacity WG (Ballroom)
– Lead: Nitin H. Vaidya (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Mesh Connectivity WG (Falls Terrice)
– Lead: Dave B. Johnson (Rice University)
Mesh Security & Management WG (Vintage)
– Lead: David Wetherall (University of Washington)
Mesh Distributed Services WG (Atrium)
– Lead: Ion Stoica (University of California Berkeley)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee, Cookie & Soda Break
16:00 – 17:20 Working Group Reports

16:00 – 16:20 Mesh Capacity WG Video
16:20 – 16:40 Mesh Connectivity WG Video
16:40 – 16:00 Mesh Security & Management WG Video
16:40 – 17:20 Mesh Distributed Services WG Video
17:30 – 18:00 Impressions – Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts) (Video) and Scott Shenker (International Computer Science Institute)

Summary & Closing Remarks – Victor Bahl, MSR
18:00 Meeting Adjourns