The Illinois Network Design and EXperimentation (INDEX) Group in the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a collaborative research and education environment in which both basic research and applied projects are pursued in the areas of Wireless QoS (project 1, project 2) Design, Analysis, and Implementation of Self-adjusting Protocols for Wireless Environments Cyber Physical Computing (project) Wireless-enabled Cyber Physical Space for Healthcare Wireless Sensor Networks for Surveillance (project 1, project 2, project 3) Design, Fundamental Property Analysis, and Evaluation of Data-Centric Wireless Sensor Networks Network Modeling and Simulation (project) Enabling Technology for Large-Scale Network Simulation and Emulation Measurement and Diagnostics (project) Theoretically Proven Techniques for Network Measurement and Diagnostics We have been funded by a varieity of government agencies and industry corporations. Refer to here for our funding acknowledgement.

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[December 07] Professor Jennifer C. Hou passed away peacefully on Sunday December 2nd, 2007 with her son, Andrew, at her side after a long and brave fight against cancer. To share memories of Jennifer, please visit http://index.cs.uiuc.edu/guestbook/guestbook.html.   [November 07]Jennifer C. Hou is elected to be an IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2008.   [November 07]Jennifer C. Hou is elected to be a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM.   [November 07]Three of our INFOCOM submissions are accepted for publication!!! The acceptance rate this year is 20%. Congratulations to Yan Gao, I-Hong Hou (in collaboration with Tarek Abdelzaher and Indy Gupta), Yong Yang, and Zheng Zeng!   [October 07] Our NSF STTR proposal on building a personal assistant system to help elder people with their independent living (jointly with QualityCare Technologies, LLC) has been approved for funding! This brings us one (tiny) step closer to commercialize our research results.   Read More News...