Panel Moderator: Qian ZhangHong Kong University of Science and

TechnologyMay 2008

Wireless Everywhere

The interactions between

mobile users, wireless devices (e.g., sensors, RFID) and

their supporting communication and computing infrastructure

will have significant impact to the architecture of future wireless networks

Technology Evolving

Exciting technology evolving Cognitive radio networks, cooperative communication and networking, opportunistic networking, delay tolerant networks, as well as sensor/RFID networks

Impact of those technologies to the overall network architecture design

Roadmap to fully leverage those technologies

Panelists

Prof. David B. Johnson, Rice University and Chair of ACM SIGMOBILE;Dr. E.K. Park, NSF Program Director;Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa;Prof. Lixin Gao, University of Massachusetts, Amherst;Prof. Ying-Chang Liang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore;Mr. Bin Chen, Huawei Corp., China; Dr. PG Madhavan, CEO & Corp CTO of Zaplah Corporation

David B. Johnson

Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University

Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University for eight years

Received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1990 from Rice University

Very active in IETF since 1993

Chair of ACM SIGMOBILE

General Chair for MobiCom 2003 and VANET 2006; and Technical Program Chair for VANET 2005, MobiHoc 2002, and MobiCom 1997

Editor for six different journals 

E.K. Park

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Missouri

Received PhD degree in Computer Science from the Northwestern University

Program Director at US National Science Foundation, CISE Directorate, CCF and CNS Divisions

Published over 140 technical papers including 2 best paper awards

Founder of ICCCN and CIKM conferences

Ivan Stojmenovic

Received all degrees in mathematicsPublished over 200 different papers, and edited four books on wireless ad hoc and sensor networks and applied algorithms Editor of dozen, and founder and editor-in-chief of three journalsRoyal Society Research Merit Award, UKChaired and/or organized >30 workshops and conferencesIEEE Fellow (Communications Society, 2008)

Lixin Gao

Ph.D., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst

Professor, University of Massachusetts

Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 2003 – 2005

Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Research interestsInternet routing, network security, network virtualization, and multimedia networking

Served on numerous technical program committees/organizing committees of prestigious conferences

Ying-Chang Liang

Senior  Scientist  in  the  Institute  for  Infocomm  Research  (I2R), Singapore

Cognitive  radio  and  cooperative  communications  and  the  standardization activities  in  IEEE  802.22

Adjunct  associate  professor  in  Nanyang  Technological  University  (NTU)  and  National  University  of Singapore  (NUS) Associate  Editor  of  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions  on  Wireless CommunicationsBest Paper  Awards  from  IEEE  VTC-Fall 1999 and IEEE PIMRC’2005, and 2007 Institute Engineers of Singapore (IES)  Prestigious  Engineering  Achievement Award

PG Madhavan

CEO & Corp CTO of Zaplah Corporation

2003-2007, with Microsoft CorporationWorked on various wireless products including video over WLAN for Media Center, enterprise WLAN and outdoor WLAN mesh

Had corporation-wide responsibilities in the areas related to UWB wireless

Lucent/Agere in the areas of Bluetooth and wireless LAN/PAN coexistence

Rockwell Automation

Ph.D. from McMaster University

Professor at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor