IEEE ICC 2012 Tutorials Program

Falko Dressler is a Full Professor of Computer Science heading the Computer and Communication Systems Group at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck. He teaches on self-organizing sensor and actor networks, network security, and communication systems. Dr. Dressler received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree from the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Erlangen in 1998 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Dressler is an Editor for journals such as Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET), and Elsevier Nano Communication Networks. He was guest editor of special issues on self-organization, vehicular networking, and bio-inspired computing and communication for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE Communications Magazine, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, and others. Among other, Dr. Dressler wrote the textbooks Self-Organization in Sensor and Actor Networks, published by Wiley in 2007. Dr. Dressler is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in the fields of inter-vehicular communication, self-organization, and bio-inspired networking. Dr. Dressler is a Senior Member of the IEEE (COMSOC, CS, VTS) as well as a Senior Member of ACM (SIGMOBILE). His research activities are focused on adaptive wireless networking and self-organization methods addressing issues in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, inter-vehicular communication systems, bio-inspired networking, and adaptive network security techniques.

Claudio Casetti got his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He got his PhD in Telecommunication Engineering from the same institution and he is currently an Assistant Professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica. He has published more than 130 papers in peer-refereed international journals and conferences on the following topics: Transport and network protocols in wired networks, IEEE 802.11 WLANs, Vehicular networks, Ad hoc and sensor networks. He holds one patent from the U.S. Patent Office and two from the E.U. Patent Office. He serves in the TPC of the main international conferences in the networking field (e.g., IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM or IEEE ICC). He was the Workshop Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2009, the Technical Program Co-Chair of IEEE WONS 2009 and the General Co-Chair of IEEE WONS 2010. He was Principal Investigator in the Alcatel France - Politecnico di Torino research contract on "End-to-end QoS Solutions in wireless networks" (2003-2004). He was principal investigator in the VICSUM project on vehicular networks funded by Regione Piemonte (2007-2009). He has acted as Team Leader for Politecnico di Torino in the FP6 Network of Excellence - NoE "Euro-NGI" (2003-2006), the FP6 NoE "Euro-FGI" (2006-2008) and the FP7 NoE "Euro-NF" (2008-2011). He is a member of IEEE. He has been a visiting scholar at Umass Amherst, UCLA and UCSD.

Aria Nosratinia is Jonsson Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996. He has held visiting positions at Princeton University, Rice University and UCLA. His interests are in the area of signal processing and communication for wireless networks. His research in the recent past has concentrated on cooperative and opportunistic wireless communications, an area in which he is widely published and cited. He is currently serving as associate editor for the IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications. He has been a past editor for the IEEE Trans. Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He has been on the organizing committees of several IEEE conferences. He has received the National Science Foundation Career award, as well as two chapter awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He was elected IEEE Fellow “for contributions to multimedia and wireless communication.”

Abd-Elhamid M. Taha received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Kuwait University, Kuwait in 1999 and 2002, and his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Queen’s University, Canada in September 2007. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Alfaisal University in Saudi Arabia and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Computing in Queen’s University, Canada. Dr. Taha has authored several publications including journals, refereed conference papers, and book chapters. He also served as a technical program committee in several international conferences and symposia. His areas of interest include radio resource management in wireless and mobile networks, especially in the context of wireless overlays with heterogeneous access and wireless relay networks. His recent activity includes co-founding the IEEE Workshop on the Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhy’11). Dr. Taha has presented two tutorials before at flagship IEEE conferences including IEEE ICC 2011 and VTC 2010. He is currently a member of both the IEEE and the ACM.

Najah Abu Ali received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan and her PhD degree in 2006 in Computer Networks in Electrical Engineering department at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. She joined the College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University (Al Ain, UAE), as an Associat Professor with the Computer Networks Engineering track. She had a postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Computing, Queen's University from January 2006 to August 2006. Her research interests comprise wired and wireless communication networks. Specifically, analytical and measurement based network performance management and Quality of Service and resource management of single and multihop wireless networks. Dr. Abu Ali is an expert on Broadband Wireless Networks architecture, design, QoS provisioning and performance and has published extensively in the area. She delivered several tutorials before including one on Resource Management in WiMax Networks at ICC 2008, an overview of IEEE 802.16/WiMAX at CCNC 2009, and two on IMT-Advanced standardization and technologies, presented in Globecom 2009 and VTC-Fall 2010.

Hossam Hassanein is a leading authority in the areas of broadband, wireless and mobile networks architecture, protocols, control and performance evaluation. His record spans more than 400 publications in journals, conferences and book chapters, in addition to numerous keynotes and plenary talks in flagship venues. Dr. Hassanein has received several recognition and best papers awards at top international conferences. He is also the founder and director of the Telecommunications Research (TR) Lab at Queen's University School of Computing, with extensive international academic and industrial collaborations. Dr. Hassanein has. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and is currently chair of the IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (TC AHSN). Dr. Hassanein is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker (Distinguished Lecturer 2008-2010).