LIDS team will participate w/ three universities in a $6.5 million DARPA
Information Theory for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (ITMANET) program.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a four and
a half year, $6.5 million program to Stanford University with collaborators
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Laboratory for Information
and Decision Systems (LIDS), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and
the California Institute of Technology. The project, entitled, "Capacity,
Cooperation, and Optimization in MANETs," seeks to improve the field
communications for soldiers and first responders.

Professor Muriel Medard (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) will
lead the LIDS team that includes co-principal investigators: Asuman
Ozdaglar, Devavrat Shah, and Lizhong Zheng. The goal of the program is to
develop and exploit more powerful information theory concerning mobile
wireless networks. The LIDS team will focus on the study of capacity
regions of MANETs; node cooperation techniques; robustness of MANETs to
system uncertainty and to attacks; utility-maximization and robust control;
and joint source-channel-network coding, distributed compression, separation
issues and network aware applications.

This work is funded by the Information Processing Technology Office of
DARPA.