New Architectures and Disruptive Technologies for the Future Wireless Networks

1. New Architectures and Disruptive Technologies for the Future Wireless Networks Panel Moderator: Qian Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology May 2008

2. 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 Wireless Everywhere

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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 

6. 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

7. Ivan Stojmenovic • Received all degrees in mathematics • Published 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 journals • Royal Society Research Merit Award, UK • Chaired and/or organized >30 workshops and conferences • IEEE Fellow (Communications Society, 2008)

8. 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 interests • Internet routing, network security, network virtualization, and multimedia networking • Served on numerous technical program committees/organizing committees of prestigious conferences

9. 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 Communications • Best Paper  Awards  from  IEEE  VTC-Fall 1999 and IEEE PIMRC’2005, and 2007 Institute Engineers of Singapore (IES)  Prestigious  Engineering  Achievement Award

10. PG Madhavan • CEO & Corp CTO of Zaplah Corporation • 2003-2007, with Microsoft Corporation • Worked 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

11. Thank You!!