Biographical sketches of authors
Nelson R. Manohar
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (nelsonr@watson.ibm.com).
Dr. Manohar received the B.S. degree in computer engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez in 1987, the M.S. degree in computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1988, and the M.S.E. in industrial and operations engineering and Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1992 and 1997, respectively. In 1997 Dr. Manohar joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he is currently a Research Staff Member in the e-Media Technology group. From 1988 through 1991, Dr. Manohar worked at the AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL, as a Member of Technical Staff on the Advanced Intelligent Network. His primary research interests are in exploratory research of applications and infrastructure for the next-generation Internet, where he has worked and led the filing of several patents on end-to-end resource management for global ubiquitous media services and asynchronous collaborative multimedia systems.
Ashish Mehra
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (mehraa@watson.ibm.com).
Dr. Mehra received the B.Tech. (Bachelor of Technology) degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India, in 1989, and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan in 1992 and 1997, respectively. He is currently a Research Staff Member in the Server and Enterprise Networking group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. His primary research interests are in server operating system and networking support for application quality of service requirements, network services for intelligent multimedia transport, network security, and code mobility.
Marc H. Willebeek-LeMair
Dr. Willebeek-LeMair is no longer with IBM; his address was not available at the time of publication. Dr. Willebeek-LeMair received the B.S. degree in computer and electrical engineering from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, in 1985, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1988 and 1990, respectively. At the time this paper was written, he was with the Multimedia Networking group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, specializing in the development of networked multimedia systems. Dr. Willebeek-LeMair joined IBM in 1990 as a Research Staff Member in the Research Division High Bandwidth Systems Laboratory. His research interests include real-time networked applications such as desktop videoconferencing and audio/video streaming, high-bandwidth communications, computer architecture, parallel processing, and interconnection networks. Dr. Willebeek-LeMair is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Communications Society, Alpha Xi, and Eta Kappa Nu.
Mahmoud Naghshineh
IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (mahmoud@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Naghshineh currently manages the Pervasive and Embedded Networking Department. He has been working at IBM since 1988 on a variety of research and development projects dealing with design and analysis of local area networks, communication protocols, and fast packet-switched/broad-band networks, TCP/IP networking, quality of service and congestion control, wireless and mobile ATM, wireless radio and infrared access broad-band and local-area networks. He received his doctoral degree from Columbia University. Dr. Naghshineh has served as a member of technical program committee, session organizer, and chairperson for many IEEE conferences and workshops, and as editor of a number of ACM and IEEE journals and magazines. He is also the editor-in-chief of the IEEE personal communications magazine starting in the year 2000. He is currently an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, where he teaches a course on wireless/mobile communications and networking.
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