I. Akyildiz (Ian) *

• Cognitive Radio Networks
• Cognitive Ad Hoc Networks
• Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
• Sensor networks in Challenging Environments such as Underwater and Underground
• Wireless Mesh Networks
• Nano-Networks: A New Communication Paradigm
• Wireless Networking in the Next Decade

N. Ansari (Nirwan) *

• Network Security (in particular, Tracing Cyber Attacks)
• TCP in Heterogeneous Environments
• Optical Networks (such as Bandwidth Allocation in EPONs and RPR)
• Active Queue Management.

V. K. Bhargava (Vijay) **

• Wireless Internet Access using IMT 2000/WLANs
• Capacity Enhancement and Enabling Technologies for 3G CDMA Cellular Systems
• From Marconi to Wireless Internet: A Communications Perspective
• Research into Fourth Generation Wireless Systems

R. Boutaba (Raouf) *

• Autonomic Computing and Communications  

J. R. Cruz (J.R.) **

• The Role of Communications Signal Processing in Storage Systems
• Signal Processing and Coding for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording
• Advanced Channel Detection and Iterative Decoding for Hard Disk Drives

U.B. Desai (Uday) *

• Wireless Sensor Networks:  AgriSens and SenSlide
• Self Organizing Networks: Multihop Routing and Access Mechanism
• Multi- hop Cellular Networks
• ICT for Socioeconomic Development
• Cell Phone Based Wireless Sensor Networks: Layered Routing

M. Devetsikiotis (Michael) *

• Challenges in Service Oriented and Application Aware Networking
• Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Communication Networks
• Towards Network Enabled Collaboration and Innovation
• Formal Methods for Cross Layer Quantitative Modeling of Networks
• Adaptivity Mechanisms in Next Generation Networks
• Pricing and Optimization of Service Oriented Next Generation Networks
• Traffic Characterization and Analysis for Next Generation Networks

Z. Ding (Zhi) *

• Hybrid ARQ and Retransmission Diversity Optimization in Wireless Communications
• Approaches to Wireless MIMO Channel Feedback
• Cognitive Wireless Networks
• Optimum Transmitter Precoding in Hybrid ARQ for Wireless MIMO Communications
• Fast Wireless Source Localization and Sensor Placement
• Quadratic Programming in Blind Equalization

A. Ephremides (Tony) *

• Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
• Network Coding As A New Paradigm In Networking
• Energy Efficiency In Wireless Networks
• Cross-Layer Issues In Network Design
• Sensor Networks
• Stability Issues In Wireless Networks
• Power Control In Ad Hoc Networks
• New Directions And Challenges In Wireless Networking

J. Gavan (Jacob) *

• Radio Frequency Systems Interference and Radiation Effects: Analysis, Computation and Mitigation Techniques
• Radio Systems Collocation Non Linear Mutual Interference Effects: Analysis, Computation and Mitigation Techniques.
• Electromagnetic Analysis and Simulation of RF base stations and Headsets Radiation Effects and Development of Mitigation Techniques.
• RADAR and LADAR multimode systems for detection and tracking cooperative targets with optimum accuracy and operation ranges.
• Stratospheric Quasi Stationary Platforms (SQSP) as complement to Ground Cellular Systems for Improving Radio-Communication Performances.
• Hypothesis of Hornets (or other Flying Creatures) Biological RADAR and Direction Finding Systems and Future Applications.
• Overview of Navigation Techniques Leading to Global Positioning Systems with Optimum Reliability and Accuracy.
• Overview of Mobile Satellite Systems
• Overview of Smart Antennas
• Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) EMC performances: Analysis and Mitigation Techniques.
• Tours:  < Select a Tour Date > 5/2006-6/2006 - AP Tour

R. Glitho (Roch) *

• Next Generation Networks
• IP Telephony
• Architectures for End User Services
• Network Interworking

A. Goldsmith (Andrea) **

• Capacity Limits of Wireless Channels/Networks
• Multiple-Antennas in Wireless Links/Networks
• Space-Time-Frequency Agile Radios
• Energy-Constrained Communication
• Cross Layer Design of Wireless Systems
• Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Design
• Multimedia over Wireless
• Distributed Control over Wireless Networks
  

f. harris (fred) *

• Synchronizing Digital Receivers
• DSP to Improve Receiver Performance(I-Q Mismatch, DC-Cancel, etc)
• DSP in Modern Digital Communications
• OFDM from A DSP Perspective
• Software Defined Radio
• Channelized Receivers
• A Short History of Radio

H. Hassanein (Hossam) **

• Enabling Ubiquitous Mobile Services
• Next Generation Broadband Wireless Access Networks
• Resource Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
• Enabling Mobile Computing in Wireless Ad hoc Networks
• Planning and Device Deployment in Wireless Sensor Networks

G. Jakobson (Gabe) *

• The Principles of Dynamic Event and Situation Management
• Introduction to Cognitive Information Fusion and Operational Situation Management
• Introduction to Event Correlation Models, Solutions and Applications
• Real-Time Network Fault and Alarm Management
• Management of Dynamic Networks and Services Based on Distributed Event Correlation
• The Technology and Practice of Integrated Multi-Agent Event Correlation Systems
• LA Tour

A. Jamalipour (Abbas) *

• Broadband Wireless IP
• Next Generation Mobile Network Architectures
• Heterogeneous Mobile Cellular Networks
• EAME Tour

S. Kartalopoulos (Stamatios) **

• DWDM Technology and Optical Networks for Beginners
• DWDM Optical Networks
• DWDM Technology
• Next-Generation Intelligent Optical Networks
• Mesh Free-Space (or Wireless) Optical Networks
• Introduction to Network Security
• Introduction to Quantum Cryptography
• Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic

B. Khasnabish (Bhumip) **

• New Generation of Networking
• Multimedia Services Peering
• Evolution of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
• Harmonization of Network/Service Elements
• Convergence: Service and Network Viewpoints
• Tours:  < Select a Tour Date > 12/2007-1/2008 - AP Tour

T. Le-Ngoc (Tho) *

• Advances in Broadband Access Communications
• Multimedia Satellite Communications
• Adaptive Transmission and Dynamic Resource Allocation
• Broadband xDSL Access Communications
• Collaborative & Cognitive Communications

A. Leon-Garcia (Alberto) *

• Carrier-Class Peer-to-Peer Networking
• What is an Application Oriented Network?
• Towards Autonomic Networks

V. C. M. Leung (Victor) **

• Service and Network Convergence in Next Generation Networks
• Mobile Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks
• Wireless Networks for Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration
• From WPAN to WBAN: Short Range Packet Communications

G.Y. Li (Geoffrey Ye) **

• From OFDM and SC-FDE to EST-based Modulation
• Join Physcial and MAC Layer Optimization for Wireless Networks: Centralized
• Join Physcial and MAC Layer Optimization for Wireless Networks: Distributed
• Signal Processing Issues in Cognitive Radios

H. Schulzrinne (Henning) *

• VoIP - Beyond Replicating the Limitations of the Past
• Next-Generation Emergency Calling (NG911)
• The Vision and Reality of Ubiquitous Computing
• Making VoIP and WiFi Play Nice Together
  

X. Shen (Sherman) **

• Resource management of Wireless Networks
• Medical Body Area Networks

A. Somani (Arun) **

• Monitoring the US Power Grid Using Wireless Sensor Networks
• Survivable Path Level Traffic Grooming in WDM Optical Networks
• Capacity-Balanced Efficient Protection and Grooming Optical Architecture
• RDFN - Robust, Dynamic and Fair or (Real-Damn-Fast) Network
• Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing-Based Networks: Issues and Challenges
• Issues in Optical Interconnection of LANs
• End-to-End Packets and Circuits over Fiber
• Fault and Attack Management in Optical Network

T. Suda (Tatsuya) **

• Molecular Communication: New Paradigm for Communication Among Nano-Scale Biological Machines
• The Bio-Networking Architecture: A Biologically Inspired Approach to the Design of Computer Networks and Network Applications
• New Research Directions in Networks: from Sociology to Biology

K. Trivedi (Kishor) **

• Survivability Quantification
• Software Aging and Rejuvenation
• High Availability Software System Assurance
• Performability Modelling of Wireless Communication Systems
• Performance and Reliability of Composite Web Services
• Modeling SIP Application Server Reliability
• Stochastic Petri Nets
• Reliability and Availability Modeling using the SHARPE Software Package

A.J. Vinck (Han) *

• Information Theory and Coding Techniques
• Applications to Random Access; Memory Systems

M. Win (Moe) *

• Fundamentals of Ultrawide Bandwith (UWB) Systems
• Recent Advances in Ultrawide Bandwidth (UWB) Communications Networks

W. Zhuang (Weihua) *

• Link-Layer Resource Allocation for Ultra-Wideband Communications
• Resource Allocation for Cellular / WLAN Integrated Networks
• Hybrid Mobile User Location and Non-Line-of-Sight Error Mitigation