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
Perimeter Institute Physics Festival!
This may be only marginally related to computer science, but if you are like me, you may also have an interest in physics (and for those who don’t I think there are some lectures on quantum computers which may be cool). The festival runs in October and there is about a week or so of events including lectures, panel discussions and even live taping of TV shows (Steve Paiken if you are familiar with his show). You can register starting today for some of the events and next week for some as well. Here is the link: http://q2cfestival.com
Categories: Miscellaneous, News by Jason Ernst
Tags: Permiter Institute, Physics, Steve Paiken, The Agenda
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
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
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