Thursday, February 15, Volen 101, 3:00-4.00 pm
CarNet is an application for a large ad hoc mobile network system that scales well without requiring a fixed network infrastructure to route messages. CarNet places radio nodes in cars, which communicate using Grid, a novel scalable routing system. Grid uses geographic forwarding and a scalable distributed location service to route packets from car to car without flooding the network. CarNet will support IP connectivity as well as applications such as cooperative highway congestion monitoring, fleet tracking, and discovery of nearby points of interest.
Biography:
Robert Morris is an assistant professor in MIT's EECS department and a
member of the Laboratory for Computer Science. He received a PhD from
Harvard University for work on modeling and controlling networks with
large numbers of competing connections. As a graduate student he
helped design and build an ARPA-funded ATM switch with per-circuit
hop-by-hop flow control. He led a mobile communication project which
won a best student paper award from USENIX. He co-founded Viaweb, an
e-commerce hosting service. His current interests include modular
software-based routers, analysis of the aggregation behavior of
Internet traffic, and scalable ad-hoc routing.
Host: Liuba Shrira