Networks

Student profile: Anthony VankySMArchS ’11, PhD candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning studies networks in the urban environment.

Increasing fuel efficiency with a smartphoneA network of dashboard-mounted phones can collect data on traffic lights and tell drivers how to avoid inefficient stopping and starting.

How to control complex networksNew algorithm offers ability to influence systems such as living cells or social networks.

Constant connectionMIT researchers show how to use portable devices’ built-in motion sensors to improve data rates on wireless networks.

Explained: Ad hoc networksDecentralized wireless networks could have applications in distributed sensing and robotics and maybe even personal communications.

Collective memoryAn MIT project provides a way to preserve information in constantly changing networks, without resorting to a shared server.

Li-Shiuan Peh on network driven transportationFrom Transportation@MIT

Cars as traffic sensorsA new algorithm optimizes the dissemination of information about traffic and road conditions through networks of wirelessly connected cars.

Better health through social networkingResearch shows how the nature of your social network influences your health behavior.

Web sites that can take a punchBy preventing web applications from deviating from their normal behavior, a new MIT system can keep them online even during a cyberattack.

Rethinking networkingMIT researchers helped develop a theory that promised much more efficient data networks; then they were the first to put it into practice.

The power of ‘random’A ‘seemingly loopy’ technique that MIT researchers helped develop could dramatically improve the efficiency of communications networks.

Sharing the airUnused wireless spectrum is getting scarce; MIT researchers are teaching emerging technologies to coexist in what's left