Hewlett-Packard Wireless Invent@MIT

The Center for Wireless Networking's flagship project is an ambitious, highly interdisciplinary effort whose charter is to re-think the way that wireless networks and mobile appliances are designed and implemented.

A key part of its mission is to uncover the fundamental limits that govern such systems, and the forces that shape their evolution. In turn, these insights are guiding the development of a broad set of novel cross-layer design techniques to improve reliability, responsiveness, security, scalability, and energy-efficiency. The resulting improvements are expected to enable important new applications involving streaming media and other high-data rate content.

A hallmark of this project is its emphasis on pursuing innovation by bringing together diverse groups and research communities that have traditionally worked more independently. Indeed, MIT and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories are using this joint effort to re-invent the model for academic-industrial collaboration, and pioneer innovative new approaches to such interaction.

Here is a sampling of some of the projects we are working on:

(*) Path diversity techniques for multimedia networks
(*) Exploiting side information in wireless networks
(*) Security techniques for multimedia networks
(*) Cooperative diversity for wireless networks
(*) Distributed source coding for multimedia networks
(*) Network coding for fault-tolerant, high-speed networks
(*) Ultrawideband wireless networking: signal, code, and device design
(*) Low-complexity decoding and interference cancellation algorithms for wireless networks
(*) Devices and algorithms for wireless microsensor networks
(*) Efficient transcoding techniques for multimedia networks
(*) Space-time coding for reliable high-speed wireless networks
(*) Scheduling algorithms for advanced wireless networks
(*) Buffer design and queue management for multimedia networks and devices
(*) Space-time multicasting algorithms for wireless networks