Coast-to-Coast Seminars
Today I found out about some cross-Canada computer / math seminars that are sponsored by a consortium of research / computing organizations across Canada including SHARCNET, WestGrid, ACENet, IRMACS and AARMS. Today’s talk was given at the University of Toronto by Prof. Geoffrey Hinton (see the SHARCNET site for a description / abstract).
Categories: Computer Science, Research by Jason Ernst
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ANN for Wireless Network Applications
This semester I have been taking a soft computing course. We have covered fuzzy logic and are starting artificial neural networks (ANN) although I have missed a couple of classes due to the conferences I have been attending. Anyway the ANN class today piqued my interest in how I can apply this to my area which is wireless networks. It seems to me so far that it could be applied to some of my cross-layer work since the network could be trained to tune parameters to settings which yield good performance based on specific network conditions. However, I’m not sure if this approach would be good or if some other AI type of technique may be better. Also I am interested in how ANNs could be applied to breaking encryption schemes if it is even possible. I have tried a few searches on Google and some journals / conferences but nothing of interest has come up yet. I don’t think I really understand ANNs enough to answer any of the questions, but I thought I’d get them down so I can come back later and think when I have more time. Feel free to leave any comments or suggestions on these ideas.
Categories: Computer Science, Miscellaneous, Research, Wireless Networks by Jason Ernst
Tags: Artificial Neural Networks, Encryption, Security, Wireless
Second Beginning at Guelph & September Conferences in Ontario!
This month I start for the second time at the University of Guelph, this time for my Ph.D. degree. I am continuing to work under the same supervisor and hopefully continue along with similar research in the area of wireless mesh networks. Our lab (PerWin) is supposed to be getting a bunch of new equipment from a company in Toronto so I will finally be able to move away from simulation and into some practical experiments.
Categories: Computer Science, Education, News, Wireless Networks by Jason Ernst
Tags: adhocnets 2009, TIC STH 2009, University of Guelph
AINA 2009 Conference Presentation
This past week I travelled to the UK to present at my first International Conference – Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2009) in Bradford, UK. My presentation was on “Fair Scheduling in Wireless Mesh Networks with Multiple Gateways”. The paper for the conference was published in the main AINA conference and I presented on the first day, in the first session. It was nice to have it over with right away so that I could relax and focus on meeting as many people as possible at the conference.
Categories: Computer Science, News, Research, Wireless Networks by Jason Ernst
Tags: 2009, AINA 2009, Bradford, Fair Scheduling, Jason B. Ernst, Mesh, Mieso Denko, Networks, Research, Simulation, UK, Wireless
Thesis Defense a Success!
Last Friday I successfully defended my thesis at Guelph. The room was full with lots of friends, students and faculty and everything went fairly smoothly. It definitely feels great to be done after almost two years building up to this. Today I finished the final revisions and submitted all of the copies with an insane amount of paperwork to Grad Program Services. Two to three weeks from now I should get my final bound copy of my thesis and it should soon be available online and in libraries 
. For anyone interested in reading it, email me and I can send you a pdf copy.
Categories: Computer Science, News, Research, Wireless Networks by Jason Ernst
Tags: Defense, Ernst, Guelph, Jason, M.Sc., Thesis
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