Edward Knightly is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley and his B.S. from Auburn University. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Sloan Fellow, and a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He received the best paper award from ACM MobiCom 2008.

Professor Knightly's research interests are in the areas of mobile and wireless networks and high-performance and denial-of-service resilient protocol design. He leads the Rice Networks Group. The group's current projects include deployment, operation, and management of a large-scale urban multi-hop multi-tier IEEE 802.11 network in a Houston under-resourced community. This network, TFA Wireless, is serving over 4,000 users in several square kilometers and employs custom-built programmable and observable access points. The group is also developing a clean-slate-design hardware platform for high-performance multi-hop wireless. The TAPs/WARP platform is now operational, and ongoing research includes cross-layer protocol design and implementation.

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