High-performance Wireless Communications in Space Systems

Min Song, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Old Domion University

Future space systems, such as spacecrafts and unmanned aircrafts, will require large-scale wireless communications for data collection, fusing and integration. This can be achieved by employing various wireless networking technologies, including wireless personal area networks (WPAN), wireless local area network (WLAN), wireless mesh networks (WMN), and wireless sensor networks (WSN), to form a self-organization and self-healing communication network. The heterogeneousness of nodes and large-scale of communications, however, bring nontrivial challenges to the research community. Among them, for example, are interference, security, and quality of service. This talk will present several on-going research projects related to high-performance wireless communications in space systems.

Dr. Min Song is presently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toledo in 2001. His research interests include protocols design and performance analysis of mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks, computer networks security, wireless communications, packet switch architecture, and distributed data mining. Dr. Song is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award. He received early Tenure and Promotion in June 2007. He is the Founder and Director of Wireless Communications and Networking Laboratory. Dr. Song is an IEEE Senior Member.