A Sampling of RPI Research in Tetherless Networking Technologies

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A Sampling of RPI Research in Tetherless
Networking Technologies

• Shiv Kalyanaraman
• shivkuma_at_ecse.rpi.edu
• Shiv RPI
• 518-276-8979

Presentation to Lou and Patricia Bellardo
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The Fuel of Information Technology Exponential
Cost-Performance? Trends
Gordon Moore Former Intel Chairman
Moores Law
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Optical Networks in The Internet Core Gilders
Law
George Gilder Economist, Technology Guru
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Why not have a Moores law equivalent for
Residential Mobile Internet Access?
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Free-Space Optical Residential Backbone Networks
With Partha Dutta (NSF IGERT)
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Ad-Hoc Optical Wireless Networks
Initial 3-d FSO prototypes with auto-alignment
circuitry
Design of 3-d FSO antennas
Ultra-High-speed Wireless Access from
Automobiles, Trains Toy example!
Audio Mixing over Optical Wireless Home
Networking or For Airborne Entertainment
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Future Large-Scale Camera (Sensor) Networks
Thousands of unsupervised, uncalibrated, moving
cameras without centralized processing or control
Rich Radke, et al
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Community Wireless Networking Undergraduate
Research
RPI Undergrad Researchers with Pringles-can
Wireless Antenna Prototype for community network
in Troy, NY
With Biplab Sikdar (NSF, Intel)
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Multipath Video Over 802.11 Broadband Community
Wireless Networks
With John Woods, Biplab Sikdar (ARO, NSF)
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Community Wireless Networks (Contd)
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TCP/IP over Airborne Ad-Hoc Networks
With ATT, MIT Lincoln Labs, AFOSR
Space Backbone
Air Backbone
Wireless Networking of UAVs with Lockheed
Martin DARPA
Ultra-high-speed Internet-In-The-Air
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Automobile Personal Delay-Tolerant Networks

• Great for traffic jams or crowds with cell phones!

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Experimental Networking Studio
LITEC Studio RPI JEC 4201 1 faculty member, 1-3
teaching assistants and upto 60 students
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Machine Rack 3 Cisco 7000s, 5 Cisco
2500s,patch panels connecting 2040 pcs
running Linux. Recently expanded to include Intel
IXA Boards and more Linux PC routers
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Sponsors

• Government
• DARPA, DoD-MURI, NSF, ARO, ONR
• Industry
• IBM SURs, IBM Faculty Development Awards, IBM
  Contract (Almaden Research Center), IBM Graduate
  Fellowships
• Intel Research Council IXA Programs, ATT
  Research
• CISCO University Research Program, Nortel, GTE,
  Reuters, Packeteer, Qwest, GM
• Many former students at top technical and
  executive positions in industry!