Moderator: Konstantinos Psounis, University of Southern California

Panelists:  Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech
                John Baras, University of Maryland
                Ness Shroff, Ohio State University
                Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University

Abstract:
The research community has been fascinated by the challenges posed by multi-hopping for over a decade, and has produced a number of interesting theoretical results and innovative solutions for many of these challenges. However, despite the plethora of envisioned applications for many multi-hop architectures, e.g. mesh, sensor, and ad-hoc, the reality is that there are only a few real-world success stories involving multi-hopping. The panel plans to discuss how we can move more effectively from theory to practice, and debate whether it is a matter of time for more real-world applications to materialize, or cost-related and other real-world considerations will restrict the use of multi-hopping to only a few specialized applications.