Title:	Web Surfing on the Move: Needs, Opportunities, and Challenges
Date:	December 13, 2007 (Thursday)
Time:	2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue:	Room 121, 1/F, Ho Sin-hang Engineering Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T.
Speaker:	Dr. Ling-Jyh Chen Assistant Research Fellow Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica Taiwan

ABSTRACT:

With wireless technologies extending to every part of our daily lives, mobile networking applications are becoming increasingly popular for accessing the Internet. Among them, web surfing is one of the most important applications because the World Wide Web has accelerated the dissemination of information and knowledge via the Internet unencumbered by geographic boundaries. In this talk, we propose a peer-to-peer approach, called PPWeb, for mobile web surfing. Unlike traditional approaches, the proposed scheme implements a Collaborative Forwarding algorithm that takes advantage of opportunistic wireless connections, thereby improving network capacity by exploiting the diversity of network mobility. Using simulations as well as real-world network scenarios, we demonstrate that the proposed scheme provides a better web surfing service than traditional schemes, and thus facilitates more effective web surfing on the go.

BIOGRAPHY:

Ling-Jyh Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He received the B.Ed. degree in information and computer education from National Taiwan Normal University in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from University of California at Los Angeles in 2002 and 2005 respectively. He joined the Institute of Information Science as assistant research fellow in 2005. His research interests are wireless and mobile networks, network measurements, opportunistic networks, and Web 2.0.

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