Tristan Henderson, School of Computer Science University of St Andrew

Location :

INRIA Saclay - Ile de France sud, Building P
Parc Club Orsay,
Université ZAC des vignes.
4, rue Jacques Monod
91893 Orsay Cedex France

Abstract :

Conducting planet-scale mobility experiments and measurements is of great interest to network 
researchers for building the next generation of wireless networking technologies, or for studying 
interdisciplinary problems in complex networks. There are many technical challenges that need to 
be addressed before such experiments can take place. But at the same time, there are many 
non-technical issues that need to be tackled.  While some of these issues have been addressed 
in previous small-scale studies, they become increasingly complex when differences between 
countries need to be taken into account.

This talk discusses ethical, regulatory, cultural and privacy issues in planet-scale measurement, 
and considers how to design measurement systems that will scale up to planet-wide 
experiments. We draw on our experiences in running large-scale wireless measurement 
experiments and in archiving data through the CRAWDAD wireless network data archive 
 We motivate our approach by discussing our current work in the 
measurement of mobile and online social
networks.

Tristan Henderson is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. His research interests include wireless
networks, network measurement, privacy and network economics.  He serves on the JANET UK Wireless Advisory Group, and is co-PI of the
CRAWDAD wireless network data archive.  Tristan has an MA in Economics from Cambridge and an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from University
College London.  For more information, see

Host :

ASAP - INRIA Saclay