{"id":399,"date":"2010-02-11T12:39:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartlighting\/?page_id=399"},"modified":"2014-06-27T10:16:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T14:16:31","slug":"little","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartlighting\/people\/faculty\/little\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Little"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"little1\"ERC Associate Director and NSF\/BU Site Coordinator
\nTestbed Leader, Outdoor Communications and Transportation<\/em>
\nFaculty Investigator, Visual Light Communication<\/em>s<\/p>\n

Professor
\nElectrical and Computer Engineering
\nAssociate Dean of Educational Initiatives (ENG)
\nBoston University<\/p>\n

617-353-9877
\ntdcl @ bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Thomas Little <\/strong>is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Principal Investigator, and Associate Director of the NSF Smart Lighting ERC. Little oversees the Boston University effort of the grant as Site Coordinator and is also the Outdoor Communications and Transportation Testbed Leader.<\/p>\n

Professor Little\u2019s research focus in the grant is in the Systems area \u2013 in the adaptation of novel LED-based materials and devices for the support of visible-light-based communication and communications networking. By exploiting the ubiquity of future man-made lighting from solid state (LED) devices we anticipate ubiquitous network connectivity. Little\u2019s research is directed at the intersection of networking, free-space optical communications, and the \u201canywhere\u201d computing that they enable. Examples include supporting \u201ctrickle\u201d data dissemination in sensor networks, achieving HD video streaming in high bandwidth-density scenarios such as aircraft seating, and improving vehicular safety via robust vehicle-to-vehicle communications.<\/p>\n

Related Publications:<\/h3>\n

A.M. Vegni and T.D.C. Little, \u201cA Message Propagation Model for Hybrid Vehicular Communication Protocols<\/a>,\u201d in Proc. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars),<\/em> in the 7th IEEE Int. Symp. on Communication Systems, Networks and DSP, (CSNDSP 2010), Newcastle, UK, July 2010.<\/p>\n

Z. Wu and T.D.C. Little, \u201cNetwork Solutions for the LOS Problem of New Indoor Free Space Optical System<\/a>,\u201d in Proc. IEEE, IEE Intl. Symp. on Communciations Systems, Networks, and Digital Signal Processing 2010, <\/em>Newcastle, UK, July 2010.<\/p>\n

J. Chau, K. Matarese, and T.D.C. Little, \u201cIP-Enabled LED Lighting Supporting Indoor Mobile and Wireless Communications<\/a>,\u201d Poster and Demonstration Program, MobiSys 2010, San Francisco, CA, June 15, 2010.<\/p>\n

A. Agarwal and T.D.C. Little, \u201cRole of Directional Wireless Communication in Vehicular Networks<\/a>,\u201d in Proc. Intelligent Vehicles Symposium <\/em>(IV\u201910), San Diego, CA, June 2010.<\/p>\n

A.M. Vegni, C. Vegni, and T.D.C. Little, \u201cOpportunistic Vehicular Networks by Satellite Links for Safety Applications<\/a>,\u201d in Proc. of the Fully Networked Car Workshop,<\/em> Geneva International Motor Show, Geneva, Switzerland, March 3-4, 2010.<\/p>\n

T.D.C. Little, P. Dib, K. Shah, N. Barraford, and B. Gallagher, \u201cUsing LED Lighting for Ubiquitous Indoor Wireless Networking,\u201d to appear at the 4th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2008) October, 2008, Avignon, France.<\/p>\n

T.D.C. Little and A. Agarwal \u201cConnecting Vehicles to \u2018The Grid,\u2019\u201d Proc. NITRD National Workshop on High-Confidence Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems, April 3-4, 2008, Troy, MI.<\/p>\n

A. Agarwal, D Starobinski, and T.D.C. Little, \u201cExploiting Downstream Mobility to Achieve Fast Upstream Message Propagation in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks,\u201d Proc. Mobile Networking for Vehicular Environments 2007,<\/em> Infocom 2007, Anchorage, AK, May 2007.<\/p>\n

A. Agarwal and T.D.C. Little, \u201cProspects for Networked Vehicles of the Future,\u201d Proc. Workshop on Smart Transportation,<\/em> 13th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, Bellevue, WA, April 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ERC Associate Director and NSF\/BU Site Coordinator Testbed Leader, Outdoor Communications and Transportation Faculty Investigator, Visual Light Communications Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Dean of Educational Initiatives (ENG) Boston University 617-353-9877 tdcl @ bu.edu Thomas Little is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Principal Investigator, and Associate Director of the NSF Smart Lighting ERC. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1500,"featured_media":0,"parent":482,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartlighting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartlighting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartlighting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartlighting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartlighting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartlighting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3719,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartlighting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399\/revisions\/3719"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartlighting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/smartlighting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}