Edward Knightly

Edward W. Knightly is an American professor and the department chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He joined the Rice University faculty in 1996. He heads the Rice Networks Group.

Edward Knightly
NationalityUnited States
Alma mater
  • Auburn University (BS)
  • University of California at Berkeley (MS)
  • University of California at Berkeley (PhD)
Awards2009 IEEE Fellow
2001 Sloan Fellow
1997 NSF CAREER Award
Scientific career
Doctoral advisorDomenico Ferrari{}

Education

Knightly received his PhD and MS from the University of California at Berkeley and his BS from Auburn University, in 1996, 1992 and 1991, respectively.[1] He is the Sheafor-Lindsay Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University.

Research

Knightly's research revolves around networked systems, mobile wireless networks, and security. He focuses on protocol design, performance evaluation and urban-scale testbeds. His research group, the Rice Networks group, was the first [2] to create a multi-user beam-forming WLAN system demonstrating multi-user MIMO in the wireless networking standard IEEE 802.11ac. Current research involves unused Ultra High-Frequency TV spectrum bands to deliver high-speed internet to rural areas,[3] and millimeter wave bands to deliver high-speed WLAN access.[4][5]

Technology For All

The Rice Networks Group has deployed, operates, and manages a large-scale urban wireless network in a Houston under-resourced community. This network, Technology For All (TFA) Wireless, is serving over 4,000 users in several square kilometers and employs custom-built programmable and observable access points. Knightly sits on the Advisory Board of this organization.[6] In 2011, they installed the first residential deployment of Super Wi-Fi, which uses longer wavelengths to penetrate typical wireless barriers.[7] The network is the first to provide residential access in frequencies spanning from unused UHF TV bands[8] to legacy WiFi bands (500 MHz to 5 GHz).

In 2016, a video of Knightly’s work was featured[9] during the White House’s announcement of a new $400 million Wireless Initiative,[10] intended to maintain United States leadership in the development of wireless technology.

Awards and honors

Knightly is a 2001 Sloan Fellow,[11] a 2009 IEEE Fellow[12] and the recipient [13] of an NSF Career Award. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2017.[14] He has chaired several conferences in his field, including the ACM Sigmobile International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc),[15] the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON)[16] and ACM MobiSys:[17] The Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services. In 2017, he received the award for Research on New Opportunities for Dynamic Spectrum Access by the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance.[18] He serves as an at-large editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.[19]

References
  1. "Edward W. Knightly". Rice University. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  2. Aryafar, Ehsan; Anand, Narendra; Salonidis, Theodoros; Knightly, Edward W. (26 December 2018). "Design and Experimental Evaluation of Multi-user Beamforming in Wireless LANs". Proceedings of the sixteenth annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking - Mobi Com '10. ACM. pp. 197–208. doi:10.1145/1859995.1860019. ISBN 9781450301817. S2CID 2015686.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-08-10. Retrieved 2017-09-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Marconi inspires Rice design for 1-terabit wireless". phys.org. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  5. "IEEE 802.11ay: Next-Generation 60 GHz Communication for 100 Gb/s Wi-Fi - IEEE Journals & Magazine". doi:10.1109/MCOM.2017.1700393. S2CID 31061641. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. "About". Technology For All. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  7. Myslewski, Rik (19 April 2011). "Texas grandma gets first 'Super Wi-Fi'". The Register. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
  8. Tarantola, Andrew (10 September 2014). "Rural Areas May Soon Get High-Speed WiFi Over Unused TV Bands". Gizmodo.com. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  9. "(July 2016) "Rice Research Featured During White House Announcement"". News.rice.edu.
  10. "Administration Announces Advanced Wireless Research". Obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. 15 July 2016.
  11. "Past Fellows". sloan.org. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  12. "IEEE FELLOWS 2009 - IEEE Communications Society". Comsoc.org. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  13. "NSF Award Search: Award#9733610 - CAREER: Accurate and Robust Admission Control in Integrated Services Networks". Nsf.gov. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  14. ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, December 11, 2017, retrieved 2017-11-13
  15. "MobiHoc 2009". Sigmobile.org. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  16. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-08. Retrieved 2015-07-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  17. "MobiSys 2007". Sigmobile.org. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  18. "Global Summit - Media". Dynamicspectrumalliance.org. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  19. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-08. Retrieved 2015-07-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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