New project will study information freshness in machine to machine networks

In a new NSF project which is a collaboration with three universities, Prof. Ashutosh Sabharwal and his team will design and analyze new machine-to-machine (M2M) network protocols based on the key concept that the quality of service of the machine-based traffic is largely determined by how fresh the information can be delivered to the destination, instead of the sheer quantity of the delivered messages. The team consists Profs. Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University), Bo Ji (Virginia Tech) and Ness B. Shroff (The Ohio State University).