Technical Program
The technical program of WiNS-DR promises to be very exciting and thought-provoking. We will have a keynote speaker, technical panel, and presentation of the technical papers listed below. It will be an important venue for facilitating discussion about bridging the digital divide to the developing world.
Schedule
08:45 - 09:00
Opening Remarks
09:00 - 10:30
Session 1: Deployment Experience
Networking in the Land of Northern Lights - Two Years of Experiences from DTN System Deployments
Anders Lindgren (University of Cambridge, UK), Avri Doria (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), KR), Jan Lindblom (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden), Mattias Ek (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)
Tegola Tiered Mesh Network Testbed in Rural Scotland
Giacomo Bernardi (The University of Edinburgh, UK), Peter Buneman (The University of Edinburgh, UK), Mahesh Marina (The University of Edinburgh, UK)
Building rural wireless networks: Lessons learnt and future directions
David Johnson (CSIR, South Africa), Kobus Roux (Meraka Institute, South Africa)
10:30 - 10:50
Break
10:50 - 12:20
Session 2: Delay Tolerant Networking Solutions
Potential for Collaborative Caching and Prefetching in Largely-Disconnected Villages
Sibren Isaacman (Princeton University, US), Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University, US)
Design Principles for Opportunistic Communication in Constrained Computing Environments
Earl Oliver (University of Waterloo, Canada), Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo, Canada)
A Framework for Multi-Region Delay Tolerant Networking
Mirco Musolesi (Dartmouth University, US), Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge, UK)
12:20 - 14:00
Lunch and Keynote Address
"Geeks without Borders", Professor Alex Hills, CMU14:00 - 15:30
Session 3: Policy, Platforms and Architectures
Issues in Next Generation Wireless Networks & Services for Developing Regions
Fisseha Mekuria (Makerere University, Uganda)
A Radio Multiplexing Architecture for High Throughput Point to Multipoint Wireless Networks
Ramakrishna Gummadi (MIT, US), Rabin Patra (University of California, Berkeley, US), Sergiu Nedevschi (University of California, Berkeley, US), Sonesh Surana (University of California at Berkeley, US), Eric Brewer (University of California at Berkeley, US)
Optimizing High Latency Links in the Developing World (slides)
Yaw Anokwa (University of Washington, US), Colin Dixon (University of Washington, US), Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington, US), Tapan Parikh (UC Berkeley, US)
15:30 - 15:50
Break
15:50 - 17:00
Panel: Challenges and Solutions for Mobile Applications in Developing Regions
Moderator:Prof. Richard Wolf
Gilhousen Telecommunications Chair, Montana State University.
Formerly Vice President for Advanced Network Systems Research, Telcordia Technologies.
Panelists:
Nathan Eagle
Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute.
Visiting Faculty, University of Nairobi.
Mustafa Ergen
Scientist at WiChorus Inc., San Jose.
Rajeev Koodli
Architect at Starent Networks.