Fair Scheduling & Load Balancing in WMN
My research is becoming more focused as of late towards the area of fair scheduling and load balancing in Wireless Mesh Networks. Earlier this week I gave a talk in our wireless research group at Guelph on WMN: Fair Scheduling and Load Balancing which I will make available at the bottom of the post.
The presentation gave a background on why load balancing and scheduling are important in WMNs. Additionally a survey on the current problems that I find interesting in the area was presented. In case you don’t want to get the presentation / you don’t have MS Office here are the main points from the presentation:
Categories: Computer Science, Research, Wireless Networks by Jason Ernst
Tags: Balancing, Fair, Load, Mesh, Networks, Research, Scheduling, Simulation, Wireless
Things I would do if I had more Time…
Since I’ve spent the morning procrastinating and relaxing I figured I would write small entry on what types of things I would like to do if I had more time:
- Write a program the can predict which team is most likely to win in sports matches based on statistics of the players, teams etc.
- Start a community-free internet access program in my neighbourhood using Wireless Mesh Network technology I am researching
- Learn to code in a new language
- Write a paper on Fair Scheduling & Load Balancing
- Travel
- Scheme on ways to make easy money so I can do the above more often
Categories: Miscellaneous by Jason Ernst
Tags: Ideas, List, Projects, Random
CRM-Fields Lecture at University of Toronto
About a week and a half ago I had the opportunity to attend a CRM-Fields Prize lecture by Allan Borodin at the University of Toronto. An audio recording of the lecture is available here:
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/audio/07-08/crm-fields-pims/borodin/
Categories: Computer Science, Miscellaneous by Jason Ernst
Tags: Allan, Award, Borodin, CRM, Distinguished, Fields, Lecture, Mathematics, Toronto, University
Motivation, Passion and Research…
Today I came across a great article on passion in research on Paul Ward’s website at the University of Waterloo and it motivated me to write something short about it on this site since it seems to fit with what I’ve been spending my time on lately.
http://ccng.uwaterloo.ca/~pasward/Opinions/polanyi.shtml
Categories: Miscellaneous, Research by Jason Ernst
Tags: Motivation, Passion, Research
How to Get People to Pay for Online Music & Movies
The other day while I was doing my mindless part-time job in a warehouse, I got thinking about what bothers me about buying music online. I think I narrowed it down to at least three main reasons. The first one being, I don’t like the idea of paying for music when there is the possibility that I will lose the music if I reinstall my computer (which I do fairly often). If there was some type of guarantee that I would have the music for my lifetime after purchasing it then I would be happy to pay for it. I realize that this is greatly against what the music industry has done in the past with their switching to new media and reselling the music (ex from vinyl to 8-track to tape to cd…etc) but I think that if they could make the guarantee that the music would not be lost they could charge more, and people would be more likely to buy it (at least I would).
Categories: Miscellaneous by Jason Ernst
Tags: Ideas, Movies, Music, Online, Piracy, Preventing
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