Description:
Claude Shannon's information theory was a towering achievement of 20th century science and laid a theoretical foundation for understanding how to design communication systems and judge their optimality. However, the bedrock assumptions in the Shannon framework of unbounded delay and reliability are not appropriate for mobile ad hoc networks with rapidly changing topologies and end-to-end performance constraints. Jeffrey G. Andrews, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas in Austin, will describe a vision for progressing towards developing a new information theory capable of describing the performance limits of mobile wireless, networks, present some preliminary results and attempt to explain how this might affect the future design of wireless networks.
Speaker(s):
Jeffrey G. Andrews, Ph. D., Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
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