Anant Sahai
Location: (Berkeley, CA)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sahai/
Keywords: information theory, cognitive radio, distributed control, power as complexity metric
Posted on: Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Broad Research Area: Information Systems / Information Science, Mobile / Ubiquitous / Embedded Computing, Other, Technology Policy, Theory / Algorithms
Research Interests:
1. How to understand issues of implicit and explicit communication of information in distributed control systems?
2. How to move cognitive radio beyond being the “medical marijuana” of wireless communication? In other words, doing what we need to do to build a real theory of “spectrum zoning” that is intelligible for the economics/law/public-policy community while reflecting the fundamentals of information theory and distributed systems. Light-handed regulation is a key issue.
3. What will it take to understand “computational complexity” in terms of power consumption? Communication systems seem to be the right first choice to study this.
4. How do we understand the impact of human free will in distributed control/sensing or information processing systems that involve humans in the loop? This one is a lot more open ended.
