| Title | : | Towards City-Scale Low-Power Wireless Internet |
| Speaker | : | Swarun Kumar (CMU) |
| Details | : | Mon, 5 Aug, 2019 2:00 PM @ AM Turing Hall |
| Abstract: | : | This talk presents the challenges and opportunities of building a city-scale low-power wireless internet-of-things. The talk will first present a solution to achieve long-range wireless connectivity to battery-free devices. Currently, batteryless wireless devices such as RFID tags have a range of a few meters at best. The talk introduces PushID [NSDI'19], a system that enhances this range by nearly an order-of-magnitude enabling wide-area connectivity for batteryless devices. Beyond communication, the talk will also touch upon the opportunities of an omnipresent low-power Internet. The talk will present WiSh [MobiSys'18], a solution that makes everyday surfaces around us shape-aware and connected to the Internet.
Bio:Swarun Kumar is an assistant professor at CMU where heads the laboratory for emerging wireless technologies (WiTech lab). He designs and builds novel systems to enable faster wireless networks and new services. Swarun is a recipient of the Google Faculty Research award, several best paper awards, the George Sprowls Award for best Ph.D thesis in Computer Science at MIT and the President of India Gold Medal at IIT Madras. |
