Back after a long hiatus!
Well after a long break from writing in my blog I am finally back! (Thanks Eddie for the encouragement to post again! haha) If you have been paying attention to my projects page you will have seen a blackberry GPS tracking tool (http://www.jasonernst.com/projects-index/blackberry-gps-tracking-tool/) that I created. This summer I got a chance to test it out across the country as I went on a 42-day cross Canada road trip.
Categories: News by Jason Ernst
Tags: Blackberry, Cross Canada, GPS Tracking
Problems with Mobile / Wireless Service in Canada
Today I set out to try to find a replacement for my LG8100 phone which has had a very long and horrible life (going through the washer and dryer several times and still working). I am interested in getting some type of blackberry an iPhone, or would even consider one of the newly popular mobile usb modem sticks. The reason for this is because I want to be able to either tether to my laptop, or use the stick to access the Internet while I travel. For instance I am planning a month long cross-Canada trip this summer. All of the sticks seem to only work on 3g networks. They don’t have information on whether they can fall back onto legacy technology at all. Well this is useless unless I can somehow stick to major metro areas. Not very useful for a “mobile” Internet technology.
Categories: Miscellaneous, News by Jason Ernst
Tags: Canada, Cellular, Mobile, Rogers, Telus, Wireless
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
Update on the Lack of Updates & PhD Acceptance
Just a quick post to let any readers know why there has been a lack of posts on the blog lately. I have been working like crazy on my thesis with the hope of completing it in the next month or so. I have also been preparing for the AINA 2009 conference I will be presenting at Bradford University in England. Also I have been working on a paper for a conference in Toronto (TIC-STH 2009 I think) with a deadline of May 1st May 31st (extended). So there’s been alot going on and not much time.
Categories: Computer Science, News, Research, Simulation, Wireless Networks by Jason Ernst
Tags: Acceptance, AINA 2009, Guelph, ITC 2009, Ph.D., Project, Thesis, Toronto, Wireless
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