MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science EECS Event

Energy-efficient Wireless Networking

Prof. Anthony Ephremides
Electrical Engineering Department and Institute of Systems Research, University of Maryland

Tuesday, September 26, 2000
4:00 PM (reception following)
Room 35-225
LIDS Colloquium

Abstract

There is increased interest in energy efficiency in wireless networks. What is fairly new is that energy savings can be achieved through choice and design of network protocols. In this talk, we will review three different ways in which network design choices impact energy efficiency. The first deals with choice of transmission power in random access environments. The second considers ad-hoc network multicasting. And the third looks at the detector structure in the context of multi-user detection and shows the savings achieved by successive interference cancellation.