TIME: Wed, May 2, 1:30pm
PLACE: Room 5115 Herzberg 
SPEAKER: Mathieu Couture
TITLE: Topology Control in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

ABSTRACT:
Topology control aims to an optimal use of energy and bandwidth in ad hoc wireless networks. Generally speaking, topology control regroups a set of problems related to the distributed establishment of a structure allowing nodes to efficiently communicate with each other.

In this proposal, we address the following four topology control problems:

1) fault-tolerant clustering,
2) channel assignment,
3) link selection in wide area mesh networks and
4) establishment of a routing backbone.

I will present current solutions that we have to address problems
1 and 2 and discuss preliminary results about problems 3 and 4.