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Laneman and Poellabauer Receive NSF CAREER Awards

Two faculty from the College of Engineering have been selected to receive a 2006 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The most prestigious award in support of junior faculty, the NSF CAREER award honors teacher-scholars who creatively and effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their own institution.

J. Nicholas Laneman, assistant professor of electrical engineering, was selected as a CAREER recipient based upon his project proposal “Toward a Renaissance in Finite Blocklength Information Theory.” In communication systems, blocklength refers to the amount of time allowed for encoding a given amount of information. On one hand, longer blocklengths lead to more reliable transmission, but longer blocklengths also contribute to longer delays. Although delays may be acceptable for some applications, such as e-mail or text messaging, they can be unacceptable for other applications, such as cell phone calls or video streaming.  Laneman and his students in the Department of Electrical Engineering are attempting to determine via theoretical analysis, computer simulations, and test bed experiments the optimum blocklengths for specific applications in communication systems or networks that would balance the tension between reliable communication and tolerable delays.

Assistant Professor Christian Poellabauer received the award for his project titled “Judicious Resource Management in Wireless Systems.” Poellabauer and students in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering have been studying the resource constraints of mobile devices and the limits currently faced by such devices, particularly those that work within a network.  While there has been an abundance of research addressing resource interdependencies, most mobile devices are “selfish” in their use of energy and the effect that the management of individual resources can have on total resources and applications. The judicious approach being studied by Poellabauer shuns traditional management solutions while focusing on the prevention of unanticipated side effects of resource adaptations and new classes of protocols and management techniques and approaches. Students working with Poellabauer are testing a variety of theories on an experimental test bed and via cross-campus simulations with handheld devices.

 

   

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