MOMENT Lab | UC Santa Barbara

The Mobility Management and Networking (MOMENT) Laboratory at UC Santa Barbara focuses on mobile, wireless networking, as well as solutions for information and communications technology for development (ICTD). Please check out our "About" page to learn more about our recent research.

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27 October 2022 — It was so wonderful to see MOMENT Lab alumni Prof. Morgan Vigil-Hayes and Prof. Mariya Zheleva at the NSF Smart & Connected Communities PI meeting in October, where they presented their successful and inspiring S&CC projects!
27 October 2022 — HUGE Congratulations to MOMENT Lab members Udit Paul and Jiamo Liu on receiving the Distinguished Paper Award (Best Long Paper) at ACM IMC'22! Wow!!! This work is so important and timely given the recent focus on crowdsourced speed test measurements for policy-related decision-making. Our paper argues that using these measurements without understanding their context is problematic. Though the community had internalized that speed-test results can be misleading, no one knew the extent of skews in such crowdsourced datasets. One significant roadblock in contextualizing these measurements was... Read more
24 August 2022 — Congratulations to MOMENT Lab alum Dr. Mariya Zheleva on her promotion to Associate Professor at the University of Albany!!
24 August 2022 — Congratulations to MOMENT Lab student Udit Paul and Jiamo Liu on the acceptance of their paper titled "The Importance of Contextualization of Crowdsourced Active Speed Test Measurements" to ACM IMC'22! We hope that this work contributes to better methodologies for assessing broadband Internet connectivity.
24 July 2022 — Congratulations to Dr. Vivek Adarsh on becoming the 20th Ph.D. of the MOMENT Lab!
08 October 2020 — Congratulations to MOMENT Ph.D. student Vivek Adarsh for winning the HP Labs Best in Class summer project. Vivek's work on smartNICs was selected out of over 400 intern projects. Read more about his project here.
30 April 2020 — Congratulations to MOMENT PhD student Michael Nekrasov on the successful completion of his Ph.D. Dr. Nekrasov, whose dissertation is titled "Robust, Resilient Networked Communication in Challenged Environments", is the 19th Ph.D. graduate of the MOMENT Lab. Who will be graduate #20??
30 June 2020 — Congratulations to MOMENT student Dana Nguyen on the successful completion of her MS degree! We will miss you Dana!
12 January 2020 — Congratulations to Udit Paul, Vivek Adarsh, Michael Nekrasov and Alex Ermakov on the publication of their paper "#Outage: Detecting Power and Communication Outages from Social Networks" in WWW'20!!!
23 September 2019 — Congratulations and farewell to Mai El Sherief on completing her Ph.D. on Social Computing Techniques for Personal Safety. We look forward to hearing about your next ventures.

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Our active topics include:

Network Monitoring and Assesment

Cellular Networks

Aerial Networks

Extending Internet Connectivity

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Elizabeth M. Belding

Elizabeth M. Belding is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prof. Belding's research focuses on mobile and wireless networking, including network performance analysis, and information and communication technologies for development (ICTD). She is a co-developer of the AODV routing protocol for mobile networks, on which 802.11s and Zigbee technologies are based in part. The original AODV paper published in WMCSA'99 received the 2018 ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award. Prof. Belding applies her wireless network expertise to a wide range of contexts, and is particularly interested in measuring, mapping, and improving fixed and mobile Internet accessibility in unserved and underserved communities worldwide. Her past ICTD projects have included work in Zambia, South Africa, Mongolia, refugee camps and, most recently, Native American communities around the US. In addition to this work, she is currently very interested in and engaged with efforts to accurately measure and quantify fixed and mobile broadband deployments in the U.S. She is currently co-leading the Marconi Society's 2030 Digital Equity Working group titled "Ensuring Effective Broadband Assessment, Measurement and Mapping." She is the founder and director of the Mobility Management and Networking (MOMENT) Laboratory. Prof. Belding is the author of over 150 technical papers on wireless networking and has served on over 80 conference technical program committees. She was Vice Chair of the UCSB Computer Science department 2009-15 and 2017-19. She is currently the inaugural Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the UCSB College of Engineering. Prof. Belding is an ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow and IEEE Fellow. She is particularly proud of receiving the UCSB Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in 2012 and the NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award in 2015 for her mentorship of graduate students.

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2121 Harold Frank Hall
Department of Computer Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, California 93106