Elizabeth Belding
Location: (Santa Barbara, CA)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ebelding
Keywords: mesh networking, wireless networks, rural networks, developing/under-developed countries, measurements and analysis of deployed wireless networks
Posted on: Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Broad Research Area: Mobile / Ubiquitous / Embedded Computing, Networks / Operating Systems
Research Interests:
Our research group has two primary emphases: developing and building solutions for wireless networks in developing regions (particularly focusing on white space wireless networks), and developing a cell phone monitoring and data collection platform. In both cases, we do a lot of measurement in deployed wireless and/or cellular networks, and a lot of analysis of network performance, operation, etc. In rural regions, our focus is on protocol development for white space networks, novel solutions for bridging the digital divide, measurement and analysis of deployed wireless networks (wireless LANs and mesh networks), and development and test of solutions specifically for deployment in developing regions. We are partnered with organizations in Africa to develop solutions suitable for deployment in rural regions. We are currently monitoring an operational network in Zambia and are in the process of analyzing our collected data to design more appropriate network solutions. We are also developing energy efficient transmission solutions for white space networks, and recently studied the tradeoffs between channel width, data rate, and transmission power for real-time flows. We have a multi-radio, multi-node testbed, the UCSB MeshNet, on which we implement and test many of our solutions, as well as some in-situ test links in South Africa and Zambia. Both testbeds include GNURadio USRP boards.
The cell network projects are just beginning and now is a great time to get involved at the early stages. We have a number of projects on-going in this area – contact me for details.
UCSB is an intellectually stimulating and fantastically beautiful place to work – come join us!
