Abstract:
Wireless and mobile devices as of 2006 outnumber wired computing devices 5 to 1, and this ratio is going to increase significantly over the years with the ubiquity of wireless devices and sensors all around us. This talk will begin with the characteristics of a variety of wireless networks, ranging from traditional cellular and wifi mesh networks to more futuristic vehicular and cognitive radio networks, and expose their unique requirements on the design of architecture and protocols for the future Internet. Then the focus will shift to the discussion of specific problems in cellular, wifi mesh and bybrid cellular-wifi mesh networks, and to the contributions of the speaker in each of these areas leading to the design of a futuristic architecture for the Internet. If time permits, the speaker will briefly mention two NSF-funded research initiatives: Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) and Future Internet Network Design (FIND), and discuss his specific involvement in these projects.

Bio:
Sanjoy Paul is currently a Research Professor in WINLAB, Rutgers University, and the Founder of RelevantAd Technologies. Prior to founding RelevantAd Technologies, Sanjoy spent five years as the Director of Wireless Networking Research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. In a previous tenure at Bell Labs as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Sanjoy was the chief architect of Lucent's IPWorX caching and content distribution product line. He has also served as CTO of two different start-up companies in the networking space. Sanjoy has over fifteen years of technology expertise, specifically in the areas of End-to-End Protocol Design and Analysis, Mobile Wireless Networking, Quality of Service, Multicasting, Content Distribution, Media Streaming, Intelligent Caching, and Secure Commerce.

Sanjoy served as an editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, General Chair of IEEE/ICST COMSWARE 2007, Technical Program Chair of IEEE/ICST COMSWARE 2006, Guest Editor of IEEE Network Special Issue on Multicasting, and as a Technical Program Committee Member of several IEEE and ACM International conferences. Sanjoy has authored a book on Multicasting, published widely in International Journals and refereed Conference Proceedings, authored over 60 US patents (20 granted, 40+ pending), and is the co-recipient of 1997 William R. Bennett award from IEEE Communications Society for the best original paper in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT Kharagpur, India, an M.S and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MBA from the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. Sanjoy is a Fellow of IEEE.