Projects 2010-2012

In the second round ACCESS has launched two different types of projects. Seed projects and collaborative projects. These projects run through 2010 to 2012. Both project typs are associated to one of the ACCESS Thematic Areas: Distributed Management, Communication Infrastructure, Networked Services, Signal and Systems.

Seed projects are led by one or more junior faculty member. The Seed project involves researchers from two or more research groups and often also involves postdocs and PhD students. Some Seed projects may be continuations of ACCESS projects that have run 2007-2009, and some may be new projects.

Collaborative projects in turn are led by Funding faculty (senior faculty) together with junior Faculty members.

Seed Projects

Stochastic Modeling of Networked Systems

Project leaders

Supriya Krishnamurthy

György Dán

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COoperative Communication in Multihop wireless networks

Project leaders

Viktoria Fodor

Ragnar Thobaben

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Interference Management for Future Wireless Networks

Project leaders

Ming Xiao

Joakim Jaldén

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Distributed Cameras

Project leader

Markus Flierl

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In Network Optimization

Project leader

Carlo Fischione

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Secure Networked Estimation and Control

Project leaders

György Dán

Henrik Sandberg

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Impairments in Radio Frequency Transceivers and Pilot Design for correlated MIMO channels

Project leader

Per Zetterberg

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Robust spectral estimation

Project leader

Per Enqvist

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Collaborative Projects

Aggregation - Tree-based, gossiping and message-passing

Participants: Erik Aurell, Mads Dam, Rolf Stadler

The objectives of ATGC are (i) to systematically compare message-passing-based scheme to tree-based and gossip-based schemes in various scenarios, e.g. in different states of churn, (ii) to investigate if message-passing based schemes can be used to compute other aggregate metrics except averages (e.g. max, min, quantiles), and, if so, how well.

Highly Robust Protocols for Distributed Management

Participants: Mads Dam, Supriya Krishnamurty, Rolf Stadler

This project aims at developing tree-based randomized protocols that preserve the best properties of their deterministic counterparts, while eliminating some of the above drawbacks. Specifically we plan to develop randomized tree-based aggregation protocols and investigate their properties, both analytically and through experimentation. We will devise stochastic performance models at the system and particle levels and relate the two by simulation and, if possible, analytically. Lastly, we will use apply the performance models to churn estimation in networked systems.

Traffic Control II

Academic coordinerer

Ulf Jönsson

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