PAST DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS SERVICES
(Continuation after term-of-service in DL program has terminated)

At the BoG Management Retreat in 2008, Board officers concluded that, since participation in the Distinguished Lecturers Program is limited to a two-year term (with a possible one-year extension), ComSoc should encourage speakers whose terms have expired to continue giving lectures in conjunction with business trips or events bringing  them to a given area.  And, although the Communications Society will no longer support their travel, the chapters may still wish to take care of local accommodations.

B. Aazhang (Behnaam) (term ended 31 December 2007)

• Multiuser communication
• Multiple access communication
• Spectrum Sharing in wireless communication
• Cooperative Communication
• Scheduling in Wireless Communication
• Feedback in Wireless Communication

H. Aghvami (Hamid) (term ended 31 December 2006)

• Delivering Ubiquitous Services Over Heterogeneous Networks (In the Context of End-to-End Networking)
• Future Broadband Access Networks-Challenges

K. Amer (Khaled) (term ended 31 December 2006)

• Architecture Analysis and performance modeling of network systems and protocols

Y. Bar-Ness (Zeke) (term ended 31 December 2007)

• Peak to average reduction in OFDM-MIMO
• Adaptive modulation coding and power allocation for OFDM-MIMO
• Effect of phase noise on OFDM and OFDM-MIMO schemes
• MIMO Hybrid ARQ for highly frequency selective and time varying channel
• Modulation Classification for Emerging Communication Technologies

E. Biglieri (Ezio) (term ended 31 December 2006)

• Coding for Fading Channels
• Multiple Transmit and Receive Antennas: Capacity Limits, Space-Time Codes, and Signal Processing
• Turbo Algorithms for Decoding, Equalization, and Detection: A Graphical Approach

W. Chen (Wai) (term ended 31 December 2006)

• Advances in Vehicle Information Networking

G. Cherubini (Giovanni) (term ended 31 December 2007)

• Data transmission techniques for storage applications
• Filter-bank modulation techniques for transmission over frequency-selective channels

H. Gharavi (Hamid) (term ended 31 December 2006)

• Wireless Multimedia Communications
• Ad-hoc Networks Systems & Applications

Z. J. Haas (Zygmunt) (term ended 31 December 2007)

• Ad Hoc Networking Technology:  from Research to Applications
• Scalability of Wireless Networks
• Security in Wireless Networks
• Biologically-Inspired Networks and Systems
• Sensor Networks

I. Habib (Ibrahim) (term ended 31 December 2007)

• GMPLS Control of IP optical Networks
• Architecture Design of Metro Optical Networks
• Traffic Engineering and QoS in Next Generation Networks
• Wireless Local and Metro Area Networks
• 3G and Beyond Networks

L. Hanzo (Lajos) (term ended 31 December 2007)

• Wireless Multimedia Turbo-transceivers
• Wireless Video Communications
• Joint Source- and Channel Coding
• Near-Instantaneously Adaptive Wireless Single-Carrier, OFDM and CDMA Systems
• Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space-Time Coding
• Standard-Oriented, Channel-Quality Motivated, Service-Related and Algorithmic Aspects of Software-Controlled Radios
• Research in Single- and Multi-Carrier CDMA
• Research aspects of OFDM
• Cross-layer optimization in Wireless Communications
• Genetic Algorithms in Wireless Communications
• Smart Antennas in Wireless Communications
• Advanced Wireless Networking
• AP Tour

R. Jain (Raj) (term ended 31 December 2006)

• Computer Networking:  Recent Developments, Trends, and Issues

B. Li (Bo) (term ended 31 December 2007)

• Optical Networks, specifically on WDM Systems
• Wireless Networks (Cellular Systems)
• Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Sensor Networks
• Multimedia Communications, specifically related to video communications and video multicast
• General topics in computer networks and Internet
• Peer-to-Peer systems

M. Malek (Manu) (term ended 31 December 2006)

• Security and Information Assurance
• WLAN Security

G. Mattathil (George) (term ended 31 December 2007)

• Network Industry Dynamics:  There is lack of appreciation of the tradeoffs between packet/circuit technologies in the industry.  This topic can be covered from three perspectives:
  • Technical (product design)
  • Market (product marketing)
  • Business strategy

H. Mouftah (Hussein) (term ended 31 December 2006)

• Advances in Photonic Packet Switching Networks
• How to Make Optical Networks Survivable

S. Oelcer (Sedat) (term ended 31 December 2007)

• Magnetic Storage Systems: State-of-the-Art and Market Trends
• A 50 Year Journey in Tape Storage

M. Pursley (Michael) (term ended 31 December 2006)

• Energy-Efficient Routing in Mobile Frequency-Hop Ad Hoc Networks
• Cross-Layer Protocols for Mobile Spread-Spectrum Ad Hoc Networks

K. K. Ramakrishnan (term ended 31 December 2006)

• QoS and Traffic Management in Data Networks
• LANs, MANs and Access Networks
• Congestion Control

R. Saracco (Roberto) (term ended 31 December 2007)

• Vision of a Future with Ubiquitous Telecommunications, Communications among Objects, Information Appliances
• Network Economy and Telecommunications
• Evolution of Telecommunications Technologies, Architectures, Services; Leveraging on Existing Telecommunications Infrastructure and Evolving Them in Developing Countries
• Entrepreneurship Capacity Building for Developing Countries
• Wireless and Wireline Internet: Bringing Internet Services Using Voice Communications
• Tours:  < Select a Tour Date > 09/2007-10/2007 - EAME Tour 09/2007 - LA Tour 05/2006 - AP Tour 05/2005 - EAME Tour 09/2002 - LA Tour

E. H. Sargent (Ted) (term ended 31 December 2006)

• Nanotechnology and Stimulated Self-assembly
• Self-organized Photonic Structures for Optical Signal Processing
• Solution-processed Infrared-emitting Quantum Dots for Optics-electronics Integration

H. Sari (Hikmet) (term ended 31 December 2006)

• Broadband Wireless Access
• Broadband Cable Access

K. Sohraby (Kazem) (term ended 31 December 2006)

• Emerging Transmission Technologies
• Emerging Switching Technologies

J. Sterbenz (James) (term ended 31 December 2007)

• Resilient, survivable, and disruption-tolerant mobile wireless networking
• Programmable, adaptive, extensible, and active networks
• High-speed networking architecture, technology, and design principles

I. Tomkos (Ioannis) (term ended 31 December 2007)

• Transparent Optical Networks
• Impairment Constraint Routing in Wavelength Routed Networks
• Performance and technology trends in ultra-long-haul optical networks
• Performance and design issues in metropolitan area optical networks

D. Towsley (Don) (term ended 31 December 2007)

• Network security
• The Internet as a complex system
• Network modeling, analysis, and control
• P2P applications, overlays, and their interactions with the Internet
  

N. Vaidya (Nitin) (term ended 31 December 2007)

• Wireless Mesh Networks
• Protocols for Multi-Channel Wireless Networks
• Utilizing Directional Antennas in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks