Instructor:
Mung Chiang, Princeton University, USA
Steven Low, CalTech, USA
Abstract:
An exciting new paradigm has been emerging over the last decade that applies powerful, recently developed optimization theories and algorithms to the design and analysis of communication networks, touching every 'layer' of the layered network architecture, and resulting in significant intellectual and practical impacts. For instance, Caltech's FAST TCP has its foundation in the optimization-theoretic models of TCP. This control and optimization-theoretic framework unifies disparate problems and algorithms in wired and wireless communications and networking.   It has become a foundation to integrate various protocol layers into a coherent framework, including physical layer algorithms that are traditionally treated separately from networking. These accomplishments have resulted in a keen interest from both academia and industry in systematically learning how they can also apply these new tools to optimize their complex communication systems. This tutorial will provide a coherent treatment of key recent results in this framework, including wireless and DSL communication systems design, network resource allocation algorithms, and Internet protocol analysis and improvements.

Instructor Bios:
Mung Chiang is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has also been a consultant to three networking startups and a Principal Member of Technical Staff at SBC Network Systems Engineering. His research interests include nonlinear optimization of communication networks, broadband access network design, and information-theoretic limits of communication systems. He has been a Hertz Foundation Fellow and received the Contribution Award to SBC New Technology Introduction. He was the Program Co-Chair of the 38 th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems 2004.

Steven. H. Low is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. degree from Cornell University and PhD from the University of California -- Berkeley, both in electrical engineering. He was with AT\&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, from 1992 to 1996 and withthe University of Melbourne, Australia, from 1996 to 2000.
He was a co-recipient of the IEEE William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award in 1997 and the 1996 R&D 100 Award. He is on the editorial boards of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and Computer Networks Journal, and is a Senior Editor of IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications.   His research interests are in the control and optimization of networks and protocols.