The Computer Communication Systems lab is concerned with computer based communication in the broadest possible sense. We are concerned with:
The CCSlab is heavily involved in undergraduate education especially in Telesys course (2G1307) and in the Mobile Computing and Communication module of the finger course (2G1302). The lab has also interacted with the individuals preparing the undergraduate Internetworking course (as the lab has previously provided the Internetworking module for the finger course and encouraged the creation of a separate elective course on this topic).
The lab has also been active advising exjobbs and its professor has been very active in examining exjobbs. We expect that the former will continue while the later should decrease (to a more sustainable level of less than 20 per year, rather than the previous more than 30 per year).
The lab also offers individualized instruction to exceptional undergraduates (currently one male and one female student from outside of the traditional D, E, and I lines).
Prof. Maguire is involed as a mentor for EIT students.
The lab currently offers no regular graduate courses and has no intention to until such time as there exist more teaching resources within the communications area in the department. The lab does offer individualized reading courses and has several students involved in such coures (notably two lecturers from Mid-Högskolan). Most of the graduate education activities (and the M.Sc. exjobbs) are carried out in research projects.
The lab also is involved in a number of interdisciplinary projects which involve research in multiple areas and provides material for education of the participants in such projects as necessary for the work of those involved. Prof. Maguire has been and expects to continue to be a frequent participant in graduate thesis proposal committees, grading committees, secondary advisor, ... and an occasional opponent.
The goal of all of these projects is to:
Beskrivning av mål och aktiviteter för OnTheMove.
A licentiate thesis in the area of "Information flow analysis in communicating processes" is expect from this project as well as one licentiate thesis in the area of "performance analysis of mobile data protocols in the context of mobile LAN/WAN internetworking" and several exjobb reports related to Trust and Identity Visibility Managers.
Beskrivning av mål och aktiviteter för Media.
A licentiate thesis in the area of "architectures and implementations for low cost basestations" is expect from this project as well as several exjobb reports.
I expect there to be one exjobb report on Mobile-IP with proxy agents.
I expect there to be one exjobb report on new telecommunication services.
I expect there to be one exjobb report on mobile routing when there is a choice of networks.
As a cooperative project with ESDlab produce one or more exjobb reports on wireless cameras utilizing DECT. A join hope (with industry) is to effect future standards in this area.
Note that Ericsson and Telia are donors of the funds supporting the professorship and have previously provided project funds for work of mutual interest. While the project funds agreement lapsed during 1996, it is expected that they will be resumed in 1997.
Cooperative projects are being discussed with several additional commercial firms in the area of computer communications.
Professor Maguire is also involved as an main or secondary advisor to students in PCC, especially in Track 2: Wireless Infrastructure (4GW) projects and Track 3: Services and User Behavior with specific responsibility for students working on WP1 Functionality and design of mobile terminal artefacts for details see the working pages.
An additional PCC track in internetworking will be proposed in early 1998.
For a description of goals and activities for OnTheMove see http://www.sics.se/~onthemove/
A licentiate thesis in the area of "Information flow analysis in communicating processes" is expect from this project as well as two licentiate theses in the area of "performance analysis of mobile data protocols in the context of mobile LAN/WAN internetworking".
For a descrition of goals and activities for Media see http://www.esd.kth.se/Media.
A licentiate thesis in the area of "architectures and implementations for low cost basestations" is expect in the spring.
The lab has provided continuing education or other undergraduate lectures for DSV.
In 1996, the lab had one precollege student work on a project prior to the start of their first year at the KTH. We anticipate expanding this activity in the current and future years.
Continue to explore flex-working and move towards fully distributed working.
Accepted students with competence or potential competence (subject to funds and advising capacity) to complete a M.Sc., a licentiate, or doctoral degree; and help them to be the best that they can be irrespective or their sex, origins, etc.
The lab is involved in many projects which have international scope, we expect to continue to explore such interactions when mutually beneficial. I hope to expand the cooperation with HP Bristol Laboratories; hopefully (jointly with Steve Pink and Björn Pehrson) to encourage HP to establish a Science Center in Stockholm.
Currently the laboratory has one professor (G.Q. Maguire Jr.) and two full-time doctoral students (C. Wettergren and J-T Liu), along with a part-time doctoral student (Roch Glitho) and a part-time licentiate student (Y. Ismailov). In addition, there a number of students (S. Jin, Matts Sjöstedt, Niklas Hellberg, and Mikael Lundeberg) doing their exjobbs in the CCSlab.
There is the potential that Waseem Besada (formerly a doctoral student in TDS) will take the place of Yuri Ismailov in the OnTheMove project. If so he will continue the network measurement work that is part of the workpackage that Yuri was responsible for.
In addition, I am interacting with several potential licentiate students in industry to help them formulate a research plan which could lead to a licentiate proposal.
We expect to have Dr. H. W. Peter Beadle (from The Institute for Telecommunications Research, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522,AUSTRALIA) as visitor for 3 months beginning in January 1997. Peter will be working with the Media project and starting a new project in location based computing (building on the work of George Liu).
Prof. Maguire hopes to spend approximate one month per year visiting in a industrial research laboratory.
As costs for wireless connectivity at high speed fall, the lab will explore moving to wireless LANs and increase its use of wireless communications. Major expenditures are for computers, networking, and user interface equipment. The lab will also explore using rapid prototyping equipment (such as the LKPF PBC writer).
As indicated in previous years, one goal of the lab is to end its physical presence and move to a completely distributed working arrangement.
The lab was recently evaluated (by external evaluators for NUTEK) for the prior Walkstation II project. In addition, the EU projects are subject to regular external evaluations (which OnTheMove passed in spring 1996).