Advancing the Utility Maximization Framework for Communication System Design

Speaker:        Dr. Mung Chiang
                Electronic Engineering Department
                Princeton University
                U.S.A.

Title:          "Advancing the Utility Maximization Framework for
                Communication System Design"

Date:           Thursday, 26 August 2004

Time:           11:00 am - 12 noon

Venue:          Lecture Theatre G
                (Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theatre; near lift nos. 25/26)
                HKUST

ABSTRACT:
 
The framework of utility maximization has been successfully applied for 
Internet protocol analysis and network resource allocation. This talk 
presents a series of very recent results that significantly expands the 
scope of this powerful framework for a variety of applications in the 
Internet and wireless networks. The future research directions of 
understanding 'layering' as 'optimization decomposition' are also 
outlined.
 
 
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Biography:
 
Mung Chiang is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at 
Princeton University. He received the B.S. (Honors) in Electrical 
Engineering and Mathematics, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical 
Engineering from Stanford University. Professor Chiang conducts research 
in the areas of nonlinear optimization of communication systems, network 
resource allocation and congestion control algorithms, and information 
theory and stochastic analysis of communication systems. He has been 
awarded as a Hertz Foundation Fellow, Stanford Graduate Fellow, NSF 
Graduate Fellow, and received Stanford University School of Engineering 
Terman Award and SBC Communications New Technology Introduction 
Contribution Award. He is the Lead Guest Editor of the IEEE JSAC Special 
Issue on 'Nonlinear Optimization of Communication Systems', a guest 
editor of the IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory Special Issue on 'Networking and 
Information Theory', and the Program Co-Chair of the 38th Conference on 
Information Science and Systems.