TRANSFORMING DISASTER
MANAGEMENT:
DELIVERING THE POWER OF INFORMATION TO IMPROVE DISASTER
PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE:¡¡
Disaster response to
mass-casualty incidents represents one of the greatest
challenges to a community¡¯s emergency response system.
Insufficient information about the victims and the
conditions within the disaster site and inappropriate
distribution of limited available resources are the
biggest encumbrances in providing timely assistance to
the victims. Our vision will enable incident
commanders to have real-time data on location and status
of victims, plus additional visualization tools to
support allocation of resources.
Current Projects:
 DIORAMA
Emergency Resource Allocation for Mass casualty Incidents (DESEMA)
Diagnosis
of Network and Application Resources in
Emergency Response Systems (DiNAR)
Wireless TeleCare for Mass casuality Situations (WITMAX) - In collaboration with SEPRI
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High-Speed Wireless Network Architecture for Multimedia
Support
Our group works on the development of MAC and routing
protocols for a variety of wireless networks. Such protocols
account for quality of service constraints as well as
the wireless channel characteristics and traffic requirements.
To develop a broad understanding of the Quality of Service
issues in wireless networks we validate our proposed
architectures using simulation, analytical tools as
well as experimental prototypes.
Current Projects:
Stream Allocation in
MIMO Ad Hoc Networks
Bandwidth
Allocation Framework for Heterogeneous Multi-Radio Wireless ¡¡
Past
Projects:
MAC protocol with QOS support for UWB based Wireless Networks
Integration of 802.16 and 3G Networks
Packet scheduling for QOS support in Metropolitan Area Networks
Spacing-based Channel Occupancy REgulation (SCORE)
Multi-channel coordinated Temporal Topology control
(MOTTO)
QoS On-demand Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Networks
MAC
Protocol for Inter-Vehicle Communication
PERCEPT:
Assisting the Visually Impaired
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Ubiquitous Multimedia Delivery
Our lab designs and implements transcoding architectures
that provide quality of service and security support
to heterogeneous clients' devices over diverse wireless
networks. We provide below a description of our proof-of-concept
prototype as well as a number of ongoing projects on
this topic.
Current Projects:
Adpative MPEG-4 Video Streaming Architecture (Archies)
Animated Space
Past Projects:
Application Level Networking
Solutions for MobiLe users (AnMOLe)
Multi-Device
Rendezvous Architecture (MuDRA)
Ubiquitous Wireless
Access to Digital Libraries (Collaboration with UC Berkeley)
Mobile
Agent Network Access Service (MANAS)
MOKSHA
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Security
We research and develop security tools that provide
adaptive security services. These tools adapt to dynamic
links (e.g., wireless links), CPU load, application
load, while taking into account the applications' quality
of service requirements.
Current Projects:
Secure
Priority Based Inter-Vehicle Communication for Highway
Safety Messaging
Secure Routing Protocol design for Military Ad Hoc Networks
Adaptive Link Layer Security for Wireless Networks (ALLSec)
Past Projects:
Security in sensor
networks (DARPA NEST)
Security
broker
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Telemedicine
Multimedia Networks Laboratory is driving towards the next generation mobile Telemedicine applications.
We envision significant communication needs and multimedia experience for futuristic health care applications
and are developing state-of-the-art solutions for such demanding scenarios. Our contribution lies in building
systems and network architectures, providing medical multimedia information, and optimizing the solutions for
the medical domain.
Current Projects:
SURGNET
Health Care on the Move
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Battlefield Networks
Current Projects:
Pervasive Networking Architecture
for Multimedia
Transmission in Battlefield Environments (PANORAMA)
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| Past Research |
Optical
Networks
Our research program includes different issues in optical
networks that employ DWDM as their core technology:
Design of novel
virtual structures algorithms
Complexity of managing
optical networks
Development of fast
reconfiguration algorithms
Interface between
optical and other network technologies
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The research
work in the laboratory is supported by a combination of grants.
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National Science Foundation |
Army
Research Office |
Microsoft Corporation |
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