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SUMMARY:Wireless Random Medium Access Control: Reverse and Forward 
DTSTART:20090619T111500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Jianwei Huang\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong\nThe
  widely used random MAC protocols\, although quite successful in practice\
 , are mostly designed based on engineering heuristics instead of rigorous 
 mathematical framework. This talk consists two studies that aim at discove
 ring the mathematical foundation behind random MAC protocols and design be
 tter algorithms. The first part involves reverse engineering of random MAC
 . Starting from a given back-off based MAC protocol\, reverse-engineering 
 discovers the underlying mathematical problems implicitly being solved by 
 the network dynamics of that protocol. It leads to new insights on why suc
 h existing protocol “works” and when it will not\, thus indirectly lea
 ds to systematic forward-engineering. We will show that the average behavi
 or of the random MAC can be reversed engineered as a non-cooperative game.
  Such result complements the existing success on reverse- engineering of l
 ayer 4 (TCP) and layer 3 (BGP) protocols. The second part involves forward
  engineering a better random MAC\, that is more efficient\, converges fast
 er\, and is more robust to the network dynamics. \nProf. Huang's homepage
LOCATION:BC 01 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%2001
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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