In this talk, we will present an overview of scaling law research from the angle of space and temporal perspective, which could generalize a large class of research literature in the field. Specifically, it covers capacity, connectivity, coverage and topology control etc. In addition, we will also introduce our results on MotionCast, which studies the capacity delay trade off for mobile multicast. In the end, we will point out some future directions.

Xinbing Wang received the B.S. degree (with hons.) from the Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, in 1998, and the M.S. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2001. He received the Ph.D. degree, major in the Department of electrical and Computer Engineering, minor in the Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, in 2006. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China. His research interests include scaling law of wireless networks and cognitive radio. Dr. Wang has been an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and the member of the Technical Program Committees of several conferences including ACM MobiCom 2012, ACM MobiHoc 2012, IEEE INFOCOM 2009-2013.