Edgenet 2006 – Wireless Network Measurement Challenges

June 1, 2006
David Kotz | Dartmouth College

Wireless networks, including Wi-Fi infrastructure and mesh networks, are becoming ubiquitous. It is critical to measure these networks to gain a better understanding of the traffic on the networks, the way they are used, and the response of the networks to different traffic patterns. It is also important to monitor operational wireless networks to improve security, capacity planning, and trouble shooting. Wireless networks pose unique challenges to measurement, however. In this talk I survey some of these challenges and describe some of the efforts underway to improve our ability to measure and monitor operational wireless networks.

Speaker Details

David Kotz is a Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. After receiving his A.B. in Computer Science and Physics from Dartmouth in 1986, he completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University in 1991. He returned to Dartmouth to join the faculty in 1991, where he is now Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Center for Mobile Computing, and Executive Director of the Institute for Security Technology Studies. His research interests include context-aware mobile computing, pervasive computing, wireless networks, and intrusion detection. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and USENIX associations, and of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. For more information see http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/.