High-performance Wireless Communications in Space Systems

Speaker: Min Song, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Director, Wireless Communication and Networking Lab
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Old Dominion University
www.odu.edu/networking

Thursday, 21 February 2008 at 6:30 PM
Aberdeen Barn, Virginia Beach

Future space systems, such as spacecrafts and unmanned aircrafts, will require large-scale wireless communications for data
collection, fusing and integration. This can be achieved by employing various wireless networking technologies, including wireless personal area networks (WPAN), wireless local area network (WLAN), wireless mesh networks (WMN), and wireless sensor networks (WSN), to form a self-organization and self-healing communication network. The heterogeneousness of nodes and large- scale of communications, however, bring nontrivial challenges to the research community. Among them, for example, are interference, security, and quality of service. The Wireless Communications and Networking research team at Old Dominion University has conducted significant research in space wireless communications. This talk will present several on-going research projects related to high-performance wireless communications in space systems.

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Min Song is presently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toledo in 2001. His research interests include protocols design and performance analysis of mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks, computer networks security, wireless communications, packet switch architecture, and distributed data mining. Dr. Song is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award. He received early Tenure and Promotion in June 2007. He is the Founder and Director of Wireless Communications and Networking Laboratory. Dr. Song is an IEEE Senior Member.

Since joining Old Dominion University in summer 2002, Dr. Song has published more than 60 international journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers, received $1.4 million external research funding, supervised 2 Ph.D. students and 9 Master students, severed as a TPC Chair, Session Chair, TPC member, and Reviewer in more than 30 international conferences, and an Editor or Guest Editor of four international journals. He is currently supervising the research of 6 Ph.D. students and 8 Master students.

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