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Improving Internet Performance and Availability with Reverse Traceroute by Ethan Katz-Bassett (Faculty Candidate)
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3:30:00 PM on 4/12/2011
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SSL 150
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Speaker: Ethan Katz-Bassett, University of Washington
Host: Prof. Ramesh Govindan
Abstract:
The Internet is now central to many aspects of modern society, yet it remains remarkably fragile. Partial outages are common, and performance problems are widespread. Operators would like to address these issues, but poor diagnostic tools hamstring their efforts.
I will argue that a more robust Internet - one with the predictable performance and high availability needed to provide critical ser...read more at event URL-
http://www.cs.usc.edu/calendar/csevent.asp?Event_ID=1209
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Back to the Drawing Board: Rethinking Wireless Networks with Software Radios by Dr. Romit Roy Choudhury
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3:30:00 PM on 4/14/2011
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TBA
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Speaker: Dr. Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke University
Host: Prof. Ramesh Govindan
Abstract:
Wireless networks are mostly architected on the principles of modularity and layering. Emerging software radio platforms are beginning to blur the layer-boundaries, exporting PHY layer information to the MAC. The access to such information is proving to be invaluable, empowering researchers to question long-standing assumptions, conceive disruptive ideas, and test their feasibility on actual systems.
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http://www.cs.usc.edu/calendar/csevent.asp?Event_ID=1205
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Proximate Sensing: Inferring What-Is-Where From Georeferenced Photo Collections by Prof. Shawn Newsam, UC Merced
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3:30:00 PM on 4/14/2011
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SSL 150
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Speaker: Prof. Shawn Newsam, UC Merced
Host: Dr. Farmoush Banaei-Kashani, USC
Abstract:
In this talk, I will describe an interesting new research direction which I term Proximate Sensing that leverages ground-level georeferenced images to map what-is-where on the surface of the Earth much like the field of Remote Sensing has done for decades using overhead imagery. Enabled by the growing collections of community contributed photo collections, Proximate Sensing represents a rich framework i...read more at event URL-
http://www.cs.usc.edu/calendar/csevent.asp?Event_ID=1193
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Paths, Trees and Polygons by Professor Subhash Suri, University of California, Santa Barbara
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3:30:00 PM on 4/21/2011
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SSL 150
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Speaker: Professor Subhash Suri, University of California, Santa Barbara
Host: Professor Gaurav Sukhatme
Abstract:
The growing scope of combinatorial algorithms often forces us to compute structures when the data are incomplete, uncertain, or time-varying. In this talk, we revisit three classical problems (Shortest Paths, Minimum Spanning Trees, and Polygon Guarding) under such informational and sensing models, and derive new complexity bounds or impossibility results.
In particular, we...read more at event URL-
http://www.cs.usc.edu/calendar/csevent.asp?Event_ID=1217