Laura Feeney

Laura Marie Feeney

I'm a member of the Communication Networks and Systems (NETS) Laboratory at the Swedish Insitute of Computer Science. I'm also a Ph.D student in the Communications Research (CoRe) Group at Uppsala University.

My broad research area is computer systems and networking. I'm currently studying communication in autonomous wireless networks and trying to address the problem of energy-efficient coordination of access to the shared wireless channel in multihop wireless networks, such as ad hoc and sensor networks. I especially enjoy working on problems where I can do practical system implementation and experimentation work and look at the system behavior analytically, as well.

I applied to attend the summer school because I think it may be interesting to think about the problem of coordinating channel access in a complex systems context. In a multihop wireless network, contention and interference effects generally extend further than the data communication range. As a result, senders have to decide when to transmit, despite having incomplete knowledge of both conflicting transmissions and the impact of their transmissions on the network.

So one of my goals this summer is to learn about complex systems techniques to see whether there is some interesting way to model the problem of coordinating channel access. But I'm also excited to learn from and collaborate with people working on all sorts of interesting problems...

In my free time, I enjoy travel and photography.

I'm looking forward to seeing you in June!