Drexel researchers headed up by Kapil Dandekar, PhD and a research team from the University of Oulu in Finland are this year’s first place recipients of the WinCool Competition Award. The competition, judged by a panel from industry and academia, is based on the technical merit of work in wireless network testbeds, measurement platforms and results, and innovative prototypes.
Dandekar and his team, including Drexel PhD student, Danh Nguyen, and faculty member, Nagarajan Kandasamy, used a smart-phone based augmented reality app to visualize changing radiation patterns in radio nodes that “learn” how to optimize their transmissions for future wireless networks. With the widespread deployment of indoor wireless LANs came the challenge of interference management and service. In order to improve the spatial reuse in indoor environments, they demonstrated an approach to mitigate the effects of interference in future wireless LAN technologies.
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) WinTech Workshop is an annual event that brings together researchers from around the world who are working in the broad area of experimental wireless networking. It serves as a forum to share new ideas and experiences in all experimental aspects of wireless networks and systems, and facilitates discussion of key unresolved challenges in this area.