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Akyildiz's discussion focuses on Mobility Management in hierarchical and heterogeneous wireless platforms.
The future communication network will be ONE heterogeneous (hybrid) network consisting of backbone Internet, satellite networks, (LEOs, MEOs and GEOs), and several types of Wireless Networks including Wireless LANs, (2G-4G PCS Systems), Mobile IP, and Sensor Networks.
The overall objective is to create a communication platform that supports high speed integrated multimedia traffic (voice, video, data, still images) with Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning as well as mobile users for worldwide roaming within these networks with diverse services to users at anytime, anywhere with convenience and low-cost.
There exist several research problems within each of these network paradigms as well as for end-to-end applications.
Satellites will play a major role in NG communication networks. However, due to long propagation delays, asymmetrical links and error prone channels several research challenges exist. A new protocol stack will be presented. TCP PEACH (for unicast applications), TCP PEACHTREE (for multicast applications), will be explained in detail.
The journey will continue with the sensor networks pointing out the uniqueness of these networks and their several application domains. A new analytical framework will be presented how to classify wireless sensor networks and accordingly pointing out the factors which influence the design of sensor network architectures and protocols.
The talk concludes with highlighting some interesting future networking paradigms, such as Interplanetary Internet.
Dr. Ian F. Akyildiz received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively.
Currently, he is the Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory (with 20 PhD students and PostDocs).
He has held visiting professorships at the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Ecole Nationale Superieure Telecommunications in Paris, France, Universidad Politecnico de Cataluna in Barcelona, Spain, and Universidad Illes Baleares, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
He has published over two-hundred technical papers in journals and conference proceedings. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier Science) and for the newly launched AdHoc Networks Journal (Elsevier Science) and an Editor for ACM-Kluwer Journal of Wireless Networks. He is a past editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (1996-2001), Kluwer Journal of Cluster Computing (1997-2001), ACM-Springer Journal for Multimedia Systems (1995-2001) as well as for IEEE Transactions on Computers (1992-1996).
He guest-edited more than ten special issues for various journals in the last decade. He was the technical program chair of the "9th IEEE Computer Communications" workshop in 1994, for ACM/IEEE MOBICOM'96 (Mobile Computing and Networking) conference, IEEE INFOCOM'98 (Computer Networking Conference), as well as IEEE ICC'2003 (International Conference on Communications). He is the General Chair for the premier conference in wireless networking, ACM/IEEE MOBICOM'2002, Atlanta, September 2002. He is the co-founder and co-General Chair of the newly established ACM SenSys'03 conference on Sensor Systems which will take place in Los Angeles in November 2003.
Dr. Akyildiz is an IEEE FELLOW (1995), an ACM FELLOW (1996). He received the "Don Federico Santa Maria Medal" for his services to the Universidad of Federico Santa Maria in Chile in 1986. He served as a National Lecturer for ACM from 1989 until 1998 and received the ACM Outstanding Distinguished Lecturer Award for 1994.
Dr. Akyildiz received the 1997 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize award (IEEE Communications Society) for his paper entitled "Multimedia Group Synchronization Protocols for Integrated Services Architectures" published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) in January, 1996.
His current research interests are in Wireless Networks, Sensor Networks, InterPlaNetary Internet, Satellite Networks and the Next Generation Internet.
Light refreshments will be served at 11:30 outside the Gerontology Auditorium.
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