PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Visiting Faculty

Visiting Professor, Wireless Information Networks Laboratory (WINLAB), Rutgers University

Conference Chair

PC Co-Chair, Middleware for Next-generation Converged Networks and Applications, Workshop of the ACM/IFIP/Usenix 8th Conference on Middleware, 2007.

Vice-Chair (Mobile Wireless Systems), The 26th IEEE Intl Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2006, Lisboa, Portugal

Co-Chair, Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Communications and Applications, COMSWARE, 2006, Delhi, India

Program Co-Chair, 4th Asian Intl Mobile Computing Conference (AMOC), 2006, Calcutta, India

Vice-Chair, The 2nd IEEE Intl Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2005, Washington D.C, USA

Chair, Global Internet and Next Generation Networks Symposium, Globecom 2004, Dallas, USA

Tutorials

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): A technology for enabling next generation networks and services. Full-day session at Design & Developers Forum, Globecom 2006. (With Archan Misra, IBM Research and Avshalom Houri, IBM)

 

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) : A protocol for supporting multimedia in next-generation networks. ACM Multimedia 2005. (With Archan Misra, IBM Research and Avshalom Houri, IBM)

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): Multimedia Signaling in Next Generation Networks. 1st Intl Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware (COMSWARE), 2006 (With A Houri, IBM)

Wireless ATM : Standards, Architectures, Protocols & Implementation. Tutorial at the ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) 1997. Jointly with L. Dellaverson and C.-K.Toh.

Recent Invited Talks/ Panels

"Software-based architectures and Unified Communications" - Panel discussion at Voicecon, Aug '07

"A Review of SIP Research" - Invited talks at Georgia Tech (Mar '07), Qualcomm (June '07), NEC Labs (Aug '07)

"How Research and Services can work together" - Speaker in Global Technology Services GM webcast ( July '07)

"Large-scale Federated Presence" - Talk to worldwide IBM Community of Interest on Convergence, Global Technology Services. (Aug '07)

NSF (National Science Foundation) Programs

Industry Partner, ORBIT : NSF funded $5.45 million/ 4-year project on a Testbed for Next Generation Wireless Networks and Applications. Participant in two experimental work packages :

• Ad-hoc Networking in 802.11x WLAN scenarios (Raychaudhuri, Seskar (Rutgers), Acharya (IBM))
• Peer-to-peer infrastructure for VoIP and IM

Member, NSF Wireless Mobile Planning Group (WMPG) for the Future Internet, May 2005 - March 2006.

National Science Foundation (NSF) Wireless & Mobile Communications & Networking Review Panel, 1997, Arlington.

Program Committees

ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) : 1999 , 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2004

1st Intl Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware(COMSWARE), 2006

IEEE Intl Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC), 2006

1st IEEE Symposium on Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2005

1st IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom), 2005

Intl Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks (ICETE): 2003, 2005

IEEE Intl Conference on Communications (ICC) : Symposium for Next Generation Networks for Universal Services ( 2005 ), Symposium on Next Generation Mobile Networks (2006)

7th Intl Workshop on Distributed Computing (IWDC), 2005

1st Wireless Internet Conference (WICON), 2005

Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Networking (PWN), in conjunction with PerCom, 2005

The 25th IEEE Intl Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) : 1999, 2005

1st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2004

IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM) 2004

1st Working Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems (WONS) 2004 , 2005

IFIP Personal Wireless Communications (PWC) : 2003, 2004

IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) General Conference: 2003, 2004

1st Intl Wkshp on Broadband Wireless Multimedia: Algorithms, Architectures and Applications (BroadWiM), 2004

The 5th ACM Intl Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM) : 2002

International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC) : 2003, 2004

Working groups

Member, IFIP Working Group 6.8 on Mobile and Wireless Communications