1. Illinois Center for Wireless Systems (ICWS) www.icws.uiuc.edu

2. 2 Wireless Through the Ages Cellular, Wi-Fi Smoke signals (Great Wall 700 BC) Homing pigeons, 1150 AD

3. 3 Changing Landscape  Decreasing costs are driving wireless usage  Denser deployments … wireless everywhere

4. 4 Wireless Everywhere Headlines in the press

5. 5 Changing Landscape  … wireless everywhere  Increasing demand for capacity, coverage, battery life, lower costs, …  Many applications

6. 6 Diverse Scenarios Mesh / Ad Hoc Vehicular Body/Personal Area networks Sensor networks infrastructure  Web  Multimedia  E-commerce  Surveillance  Games  Military apps

7. 7 Future Wireless Communication  Need to investigate fundamentally new approaches to design future wireless systems  Adaptability (to applications & environment)  Co-existence & convergence of heterogeneous devices  Seamless mobility  Energy efficiency  Security & Privacy + Location-awareness  …  Innovations needed from antennas-to-applications

8. 8 Illinois Center for Wireless Systems  Consolidate wireless research at Illinois Long history of high visibility research  Foster cross-disciplinary research with a systems view  Supporting activities Seminars Workshops Scholarships Short courses  Point-of-contact for industry Industry-funded research & scholarships Joint federal contracts with industry Host visitors from industry

9. 9 Illinois Center for Wireless Systems > 35 Faculty Antennas/Circuits/ Architecture * Sarita V. Adve * Jennifer Bernhard * Deming Chen * Yun Chiu * Milton Feng * Ada Poon * Elyse Rosenbaum * Naresh Shanbhag Communication Systems * Richard Blahut * Todd Coleman * Minh Do * Douglas Jones * Olgica Milenkovic * Pierre Moulin * Ada Poon * Dilip Sarwate * Andrew Singer * Venu Veeravalli * Pramod Viswanath Network Protocols * Tarek Abdelzaher * Intranil Gupta * Jennifer Hou * Robin Kravets * Haiyun Luo * Klara Nahrstedt * C. Polychronopoulos * Nitin Vaidya * Benjamin Wah Network Algorithms * Tamer Basar * Chris Hadjicostis * Bruce Hajek * Jennifer Hou * P. R. Kumar * Sean Meyn * R. S. Sreenivas * R. Srikant * Venu Veeravalli Security * Tamer Basar * Richard Blahut * Roy Campbell * Carl Gunter * Chris Hadjicostis * Yih-chun Hu * Ravishankar K Iyer * Klara Nahrstedt * William H. Sanders * Nitin H. Vaidya Applications / Middleware * Gul Agha * Indranil Gupta * Klara Nahrstedt Performance Modeling / Simulations * Jennifer Hou * Ravi Iyer * David Nicol * William H. Sanders

10. 10 This Symposium  Objectives * Provide an overview of wireless research at Illinois * Improve connections with industry  Agenda * Presentations by faculty * Posters/demos by students * Industry talks (in 3 parallel tracks)

11. 11 Attendees  Andrew Corporation  Arada Systems  BAE Systems  BBN Technologies  Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent  CUWiN Foundation  US Dept. of Defense  Deutsche Telekom Labs  Eaton Corp.  Foundation Capital  HRL Laboratories  Intel  Intelligent Automation  Kimberly-Clark  Microsoft Research  MITRE Corporation  Motorola  NEC Labs America  Northrop Grumman  OJC Technologies  Pavlov Media  Philips Research  Qualcomm  Rambus  Robert Bosch  Rockwell Collins  Samsung Electronics  Texas instruments  Toyota Technical Center  Vodafone

12. 12 Acknowledgements

13. 13 Acknowledgements  Lila Rhoades  Barbara Horner  Beth Dennison  Dan Jordan  Michael Chan