Elizabeth Belding

Associate Professor

Computer Science

Elizabeth Belding

Contacts

Department of Computer Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080

tel: (805) 893-3411
fax: (805) 893-8553
ebelding@cs.ucsb.edu

Personal web site

Research Description

Prof. Belding is the director of the Mobility Management and Networking (MOMENT) Lab. Currently, there are two primary research emphases of the Lab. The first of these is deployment, measurement, and modeling of ad hoc and wireless mesh networks. The MOMENT group has created a 30 node wireless mesh testbed at UCSB, called the UCSB MeshNet, for the purpose of rapid prototyping of solutions, monitoring of user behavior, and studying wireless network deployment issues. Also under this project and together with Prof. Kevin Almeroth, the MOMENT group has monitored the wireless network performance of the 60th, 61st, 62nd and 64th IETF meetings. We have collected over 100GB of data on traffic and user movement, and are currently analyzing the data and developing models that represent user behavior. The second research emphasis of the MOMENT Lab is on Quality of Service support for mobile networks. We are striving to support both higher quality and more concurrent multimedia and voice streams in mobile and mesh networks. We have a number of projects related to this area, including projects at the MAC and network layers. We leverage the UCSB Meshnet testbed for the characterization and analysis of our solutions.

Biography

Elizabeth M. Belding is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Elizabeth's research focuses on mobile networking, specifically ad hoc and mesh networks, multimedia, monitoring, and advanced service support. She is the founder of the Mobility Management and Networking (MOMENT) Laboratory (http://moment.cs.ucsb.edu) at UCSB. Elizabeth is the author of over 50 papers related to mobile networking and has served on over 40 program committees for networking conferences. Elizabeth served as the TPC Co-Chair of ACM MobiCom 2005 and ACM MobiHoc 2007, and is currently on the editorial board for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Elizabeth is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, and a 2002 Technology Review 100 award, awarded to the world's top young investigators. See http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ebelding for further details.


Awards/Honors

  • NSF Career Award, 2004
  • MIT Technology Review's TR 100, 2002

Selected Publications

See complete list of publications
  • Experiences from the Design, Deployment, and Usage of the UCSB MeshNet Testbed., IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2006, Henrik Lundgren, Krishna Ramachandran, Elizabeth Belding-Royer, Kevin Almeroth, Michael Benny, Andrew Hewatt, Alexander Touma and Amit Jardosh.
  • Interference-Aware Channel Assignment in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks, Proceedings of Infocom 2006, 2006, Krishna N. Ramachandran, Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, Kevin C. Almeroth and Milind M. Buddhikot
  • Pre-Reply Probe and Route Request Tail: Approaches for Calculation of Intra-Flow, Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal, 11(1), 2006, 21-35, Kimaya Sanzgiri, Ian D. Chakeres and Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer
  • The Utility of Perceptive Communication between Distant Wireless Nodes., Proceedings of TridentCom 2006, 2006, Kimaya Sanzgiri, Ian D. Chakeres and Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer.
  • An Experimental Study of Multimedia Traffic Performance in Mesh Networks, Proceedings of WitMeMo, 2005, Yuan Sun, Irfan Sheriff, Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer and Kevin C. Almeroth
  • Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMNs): Controlled Flooding in Sparse Mobile, Proceedings of Networking 2005, 2005, Khaled A. Harras, Kevin C. Almeroth and Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer
  • Multi-Path Admission Control for Mobile Ad hoc Networks, Proceedings of Mobiquitous 2005, 2005, Anders Lindgren and Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer
  • On the Design and Implementation of Infrastructure Mesh Networks, Proceedings of WiMesh 2005, 2005, Krishna Ramachandran, Milind M. Buddhikot, Girish Chandranmenon, Scott Miller, Elizabeth Belding-Royer and Kevin Almeroth
  • Understanding Congestion in IEEE 802.11b Wireless Networks, Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference, 2005, Amit P. Jardosh, Krishna N. Ramachandran, Kevin C. Almeroth and Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer
  • Understanding Link-Layer Behavior in Highly Congested IEEE 802.11b Wireless, Proceedings of E-WIND, 2005, Amit P. Jardosh, Krishna N. Ramachandran, Kevin C. Almeroth and Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer