Overview

Wisconsin Advanced Network Design and Experimentation Research Lab (WANDER Lab) is a research lab at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, headed by Prof. Parmesh Ramanathan.

Our current research focuses on providing quality of service (QoS) assurances to applications in next generation cellular,wireless, and wireline networks. In wireline networks, we have recently developed a scalable architecture for QoS differentiation in the internet. One of the projects involves developing communication support for collaborative and distributed signal processing in ad-hoc wireless microsensor networks. We are developing techniques for reliable power and bandwidth efficient information exchange in wireless ad hoc surveillance networks. We are also investigating techniques for QoS support in IMT-2000 which is an umbrella standard for emerging third generation cellular networks.

In addition to developing and simulating algorithms for quality of service assurances, our research work also included prototyping the algorithms on an experimental integrated wireline-wireless network.

We have received funding for our projects from various Government agencies, National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Project Research Agency (DARPA), United States Army Research Office and from several industries like, Cisco, AT&T, Telcordia Technologies, Westell Technologies, Chrysler Motors Corporation.

Contact

3622 Engineering Hall, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706. Tel: 608-2625130
E-mail: wander@ece.wisc.edu