Alan Mc Gibney, PhD

Position:  Post-Doctoral research fellow Office: B285 Email: amcgibney@cit.ie Phone: +353 21 4326865 Fax: +353 21 432 Web Page: www.aws.cit.ie/amcgibney

Vita:

PhD Title:

A Distributed AI approach for Large Scale WLAN Design

Supervisor:

Dr. Martin Klepal

Project Summary:

The design and deployment of Wi Fi wireless networks is currently still carried out in an ad-hoc fashion with access point installation based on “rules of thumb”. In order to design flexible in-door wireless communication systems based on WLAN technology, the development of planning software tools for automatic site-specific design of Wi Fi networks are required. These tools need to take various criteria into account such as the optimal number of fixed access points and especially their optimal placing based on accurate radio propagation prediction to satisfy user requirements.

Completed Work:

• Literature review on radio propagation modelling using simple and complex models and identify the most suitable one for WLAN optimising.
• Literature review on WLAN optimising techniques.
• Development of Planning Tool WinPlanner (WinPlanner Info)
• Investigation in to scalable optimisation techniques for large scale WLAN design.
  
  

Current Work:

• Investigation into Game Theory Techniques for large scale WLAN design.
• Implementation to WinPlanner and tuning of game theoretic approach to WLAN design.
  
  

Selected Papers

Alan Mc Gibney, Martin Klepal, Dirk Pesch, A Wireless Local Area Network Modeling Tool for Scalable Indoor Access Point Placement Optimisation, April, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2010   Antony Guinard, Alan Mc Gibney, Dirk Pesch, A Wireless Sensor Network Design Tool to Support Building Energy Management, Proc. of BuildSys’09, November 3, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA., 2009   Alan Mc Gibney, Martin Klepal, James O Donnell, Design of Underlying Network Infrastructure of Smart Buildings, The 4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE08, Seattle, USA 21- 22 July, 2008   Alan Mc Gibney, Martin Klepal, Dirk Pesch, User Demand based WLAN Design and Optimisation,  Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring 2007, Dublin, Ireland, April, 2007   Alan Mc Gibney, Martin Klepal, Dirk Pesch, Evaluation of developed WLAN Optimisation Tool,  in Proc. CSSN IT&T Conference, Carlow, Ireland, Oct., 2006   Alan Mc Gibney, Martin Klepal, Tool for automatic design and Optimisation of Large Scale WLAN, The 7th IFIP International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks, 2005   Alan Mc Gibney, Martin Klepal, Rajiv Mathur, Indoor Channel Model for Link BER Estimation, IT&T conference Limerick, 2004   Martin Klepal, Rajiv Mathur, Alan Mc Gibney, Dirk Pesch, Influence of People Shadowing on Optimal Deployment of WLAN Access Points, VTC Fall 2004, 2004