Dr Carey Williamson has funding from his iCORE Industrial Chair ($500K). He also receives funding from NSERC ($500K) and from his industry partner, Telus Mobility ($500K).
Research Program
Wireless LAN technologies are widely deployed and have become a vibrant part of our networked information infrastructure;.WiFi hotspots are available in many airports, hotels, restaurants, bookstores, universities, and coffee shops around the world. University administrators have embraced wireless technologies as a means to provide ubiquitous Internet access to a large and tech-savvy generation of students.
Despite the prevalent deployment and use of WLAN technologies, wireless networks are not without performance problems. Dr Carey Williamson and his research team are working to eliminate these problems.
Much of Dr Williamson’s research has an experimental flavour, with applied focus on industrially relevant network and protocol performance issues. Dr Williamson has already contributed at the department, university, national, and international levels.
Dr Williamson and his team are carrying out research towards unifying wireless technologies and the web, exploiting the full benefits of each. There is a strong focus on experimental computer systems performance research. The general goals of the research program are: to identify performance problems and bottlenecks in the design and operation of protocols in wireless/web-based communications systems; to propose and evaluate creative solutions to these performance problems; and to identify challenges and opportunities for larger-scale deployment of wireless web-based communications infrastructure.
Biographical Information
Dr Carey Williamson has been an iCORE Chair since 2001. He is considered one of the “rising stars” of computer networks research. He is noted for demonstrating the usefulness of loss-load curves as a network congestion control mechanism, and a unique protocol supporting IP multicast for mobile hosts. He has been voted “Professor of the Year” by Computer Science undergraduate students four times, and won the Master Teacher award at the University of Saskatchewan Fall Convocation in October 2000. He has over 50 refereed publications (conferences and journals), 16 completed graduate student theses, and numerous technical reports and software artifacts. He is Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Chapter of the IEEE North Saskatchewan Section, and Secretary Treasurer of ACM SIGMETRICS.
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