Mobile NSF Workshop Rutgers, July 31-Aug 1, 2007 Discussion Themes

Proposed Break out Groups Group #1 - Protocols Protocols that “protect” from mobility Protocols that exploit mobility Group #2 - Applications Mobility aware applications Mobility impact on security/provacy Group #3 - Models and Testbeds Mobility Models Mobile Testbeds Mobile users and infrastructure

Protocols that “protect” from mobility Physical/MAC layer: Diversity, OFDM, MIMO, MAC scheduling –Samir R. Das - MobiSteer: Using Steerable Beam Directional Antenna for Vehicular Network Access –J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves: Towards Truly Scalable MANETs Using MPR and Multi-radio Nodes

Protocol protection from mobility (cont) Network layer –Robust routing Charles Perkins: AODV / DYMO recent developments –Geo Routing Marco Gruteser: Geo-Cooperative Protocols in Dense, Highly Mobile Networks Xin Wang:A Scalable Geographic Service Ant Rowstron; Practical routing algorithms for vehicular networks –Multicast: Nick Maxemchuk: Reliable Neighborcast –Network coding –Smooth handoff Rajeev Koodli; Mobility and Layer Interaction Design: Where are the Performance Bottlenecks?

Protocol protection from mobility (cont) End to end: Robust TCP, Erasure coding Applications: Delay tolerant operations Kostas Psounis: Routing and transport challenges in mobility- assisted communication

Protocols that exploit mobility Mobility enhances routing and scalability Motion affinity based clustering, routing Motion prediction assisted routing/hello’s etc –Eytan Modiano: Collaborative Research: Efficient resource management for controlled mobility wireless networks Mobility enhances dissemination/harvesting Last encounter routing Index dissemination/ Content discovery (eg, Mobeyes) Mobile harvesting agents –Stefano Basagni: Exploiting Mobility for Enhancing Multi-Hop Wireless Network Performance: The case of Wireless Sensor Networks

Mobility aware applications: Protect from motion; Exploit motion ; Be correlated to motion Intermittent Internet Access –Brian Levine: Web search from a bus Motion aided content distribution (eg, Car Torrent, Blue Torrent) Pervasive urban sensing using moving platforms (cars, people) –Mani Srivastava: Mobility as Wireless Sensing Performance Amplifier –Guohong Cao: Data dissemination in vehicular ad hoc networks –Liviu Iftode: VITP and CARS: A Distributed Service Model and Rate Adaptation for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks –Kin K. Leung - MESSAGE Project: Wireless Sensors on London Buses to Monitor Pollution

Mobility aware applications (cont) Location relevant advertising Traffic and road viability monitoring (both pedestrian and vehicular) Collective sensing using mobile swarms (eg airborne flyers, SEA Swarms, etc.) –Hongyi WuDFT-MSN: Delay/Fault-Tolerant Mobile Sensor Network for Pervasive Information Gathering –Kang-won Lee: Mobility of agents and its impact on data harvesting in VANET Distributed management exploiting mobility –Suman Banerjee: Towards client-assisted management in wireless networks

Mobility impact on security/privacy etc Privacy of location and motion Secure key distribution in a mobile environment Secure Incentives Protection from DDoS attacks

Mobility models The importance of measured traces (eg TRANSIMS) –Maria Papadopouli: Archive of Wireless Traces, Models, and Tools –Don Towsley: Some Results on Modeling Contacts in Vehicular Networks –Madhav Marathe: Deriving Mobility Models from First Principles and their Applications Motion pattern characterization/classification –Characterization of motion models and impact on applications The importance of scalable, realistic synthetic models (eg, Corsim) –Tracy Camp: Reversing the Incredibles

Mobility Models (cont) The importance of dynamically changing motion patterns (based on user behavior, etc) –Robin Kravets: Event-driven, Role-based Mobility in Disaster Recovery Networks –Christoph Lindemann title: Mobility Modeling Capturing Key Correlations of Measured Data Accuracy vs run time efficiency tradeoffs The need for “analytic” motion models: Deriving asymptotic properties

Mobile users and infrastructure Mobile to Internet and mobile to mobile opportunistic routing via the infrastructure Infrastructure support for Mobility management, Load management, etc

Mobile Testbeds Why testbeds? –Propagation effects; street corners; obstacles; interference etc –Physical radio testing in realistic environments –Implementation/deployment of protocols and applications –Interaction of appls and motion (eg. user reaction to warnings, traffic jams,) –Realistic comparison of protocols (eg, geo and AODV) Vehicular testbed –Umit Ozguner: V2V Communication and ITS Implications –Fan Bai: Vehicular Safety Testbed –Giovanni Pau: sharable Campus Testbad Pedestrian Mall/Campus testbed Mobile sensor platform testbed (manned and unmanned)