| Abstract: |
Decentralized medium access control schemes for wireless networks based on CSMA/CA, such as the 802.11 protocol, are known to be unfair. In multi-hop networks, they can even favor some connections to such an extent that the others suffer from virtually complete starvation. This observation has been reported in quite a few works, but the factors causing it are still not well understood, and explanatory models are needed for large multi-hop networks.
Decentralized medium access control schemes for wireless networks based on CSMA/CA, such as the 802.11 protocol, are known to be unfair. In multi-hop networks, they can even favor some connections to such an extent that the others suffer from virtually complete starvation. This observation has been reported in quite a few works, but the factors causing it are still not well understood, and explanatory models are needed for large multi-hop networks.
This is a joint work with Mathilde Durvy, EPFL and Olivier Dousse, Deutsche Telekom. |
| Biography: |
Dr.Thiran is an associate professor at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences of EPFL, Switzerland.
He received the electrical engineering degree from the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1989, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, in 1990, and the PhD degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), in 1996.
After a one year long interruption for military service in 1991-92, he joined the Circuits & Systems group (now Laboratory of Nonlinear Systems) of EPFL, as a PhD student. His PhD advisor was Prof. Martin Hasler. In 1996, he joined the Communication Networks Laboratory of the same institution. This lab later became part of the Laboratory for Computer Communications and their Applications (LCA), where he became an adjunct professor (professeur titulaire) in 1998. He was with Sprint Advanced Technology Labs in Burlingame, California, in the IP group, in 2000-01. He become an assistant professor in 2002 and an associate professor in 2006.
Dr. Thiran served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (Part II: Analog and digital signal processing) from July 1997 until July 1999, and currently serves as an associate editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He is also a Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, and he received the 1996 EPFL Doctoral Prize. |
