Dissertation Title: Link-Layer Technologies and Protocols for Sidelink Mesh Networking

Date: 2025/05/16 - 2025/05/16

Dissertation Title: Link-Layer Technologies and Protocols for Sidelink Mesh Networking

Speaker: Yawen Chang, Ph.D. candidate at UM-SJTU Joint Institute

Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Friday, May 16, 2025 (Beijing Time)

Location: Room 503, Longbin Building

Abstract

Sidelink enables direct communications between user equipments without going through cellular infrastructure such as base stations. To cater for the ever-increasing connectivity requirement, wireless mesh networking based on sidelink is compelling towards future 6G networks. To realize sidelink mesh networking, link-layer (or layer-2) design is crucial and indispensable. This dissertation is dedicated to link-layer technologies and protocols for sidelink mesh networking, which investigates three research issues regarding resource allocation, layer-2 routing, and trajectory prediction. By solving these issues, sidelink mesh networks are expected to support emerging applications such as vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cooperation, and industrial Internet of Things (IoT).

Biography

Yawen Chang received the B.S. degree in Electronic Information Engineering (English Intensive) from Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, in 2019. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Wireless Networking and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Her research interests include wireless mesh networking, V2X communications, and 6G networks.