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.

Recent News

[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.   [July 2007] Jennifer C. Hou is invited to serve on the Editorial Board of IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing   [June 2007] Our NSF Computer Systems REsearch/EHS proposal has been selected for funding (PI: Lui Sha; Co-PIs: Jennifer C. Hou and Jose Meseguer)! This allows us to build a formal model based robust architecture for medical device composition.   [June 2007] Our NSF Computing Research Infrastructure proposal has been selected for funding! This allows us to build a city-wide, one-of-a-kind wireless mesh network for city-wide wireless access and as part of the GENI testbed.   [May 2007] Both Ahmed Sobeih and Yong Yang are awarded the Vodafone Graduate Fellowship in 2007-2008! Congratuations!!!   [May 2007] Jennifer C. Hou is invited to speak at the the second annual Women's Institute in Summer Enrichment (WISE 2007) held at the University of California, Berkeley on June 10-15.   [May 2007] Three of our team members will go for summer interns this year: Luke Kung will go to Qualcomm, Yong Yang will go to Oak Ridge National Labs, and Yan Gao will go to Chinese University of Hong Kong.   [April 2007] Two of the manuscripts that document our research findings on IEEE 802.11e will appear in the June issue of Computer Networks Journal. The on-line versions can be found here and here.   [March 2007] As the IEEE INFOCOM 2007 demo chair, Jennifer C. Hou has organized a demo session of 13 demos in the areas of wireless networks, sensor networks, network measurement and p2p applications..   [February 2007] As the IEEE INFOCOM 2007 panel co-chairs, Jennifer C. Hou and Rodrigo Garces have planned three panels on Clean-Slate Designs for a Future Internet, Wireless Sensor Networks: Bridging the Physical and Cyber Space, and Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks: Reality or Lab Demo..   [January 2007] Jennifer C. Hou has been invited to serve on the editorial board of IEEE Trans. on Computers.   [November 2006] Both Ting-Yu's and Chunyu's papers are accepted for publication in the most prestigious IEEE networking conference, IEEE INFOCOM 2007. The acceptance rate is 18% this year. Yong and Luke's paper is also accepted for publication in the INFOCOM miniconference. The acceptance rate is 25%. Our hit ratio this year is again 100%.   [August 2006]The technical program of the top-tier IEEE sensor networking conference, IEEE MASS, is now on-line. The acceptance rate this year is 48/197=24.4%. Dr. Zygmunt J. Haas at Cornell University and Jennifer Hou serve as the technical co-chairs.   [August 2006] The special issue of Network Modeling and Simulation guest edited by Jennifer Hou and P. R. Kumar will appear in Computer Networks, Volume 50, Issue 12, in August 2006.   [July 2006] Jennifer Hou has been invited to serve as the Technical Co-chair of the premier ACM International Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking, Mobicom 2007 and the Technical Co-chair of the premier IEEE International Conf. on Computer and Communications, INFOCOM 2008.   [July 2006] Our NSF proposal entitled "Toward building a performance predictable wireless mesh network" has been selected by the NeTS program for funding at the full level of $500K for 3 years. This project will leverage CUWiN as a research testbed for wireless research.   [February 2006] Our project entitled "High-fidelity, Integrated Simulation and On-line Management for Networked Communications Systems" has been selected for funding by IIT/Boeing at a level of $127K/year for 3 years.   [January 2006] We will work with Oak Ridge National Laboratory on an ONR-funded SensorNet project. ORNL will provide funding at the level of $100K/year for two years.