Professional Leadership                                      

  1. Industrial Chair,  Program Committee, MESH 2009, IARIA, Athens, Greece, June 2009 
  2. Program Committee, First International Workshop on Wireless Broadband Access for Communities and Rural Developing Regions - WIRELESS4D '08, December 11-12, 2008, Karlstad University, Sweden
  3. Chair, Program Committee, MESH 2008, IARIA, Cap Esterel, France, August 2008
  4. Invited presenter and expert panel member at Interop 2007, “Wireless mesh networks: Performance implications for WLANs”, New York, October 2007
  5. Invited presenter and expert panel member at Pulvermedia Fixed Mobile Convergence Conference, “QoS in 802.11 Networks”, Chicago, IL, September 5-7, 2007
  6. Keynote Address, “VoIP over WLAN: Challenges Met”, Wi-Fi Voice Conference 2005, Upper Side, Paris, France, May, 2005
  7. Organized Session "Resource Allocation in Wireless Communications Systems", for the INFORMS 2000 Meeting on Telecommunications, at Boca Raton, Fl, March 2000
  8. Organized Session "Resource Allocation in Wireless Communications Systems", for the INFORMS '98 Meeting on Telecommunications, at Boca Raton, Fl, March 1998. 

Selected Presentations

  1. Presentation, “ 'Express Forwarding': A Distributed QoS MAC Protocol for Wireless Mesh”,  MESH 2008, IARIA, Cap Esterel, France, August 2008; Document (pdf)
  2. Presentation with Vikram Dham, “VoIP Call Capacity of a 802.11 Wireless LAN Using EDCF Access”, Wi-Fi Voice Conference 2004, Upper Side, Paris, France,May, 2004
  3. Presentation "Mixed Power Control with Directed Assignment (MPCDA), a Method for Interference Reduction in Channelized Fixed Wireless Systems", INFORMS '98 Meeting on Telecommunications, at Boca Raton, Fl, March 1998.
  4. Presentation "Solution of the Non-regular Channel Assignment Problem in Wireless Communications Systems through Generalized Linear Programming", EURO INFORMS XXXIV Joint International Conference in Barcelona, Spain, July 1997.
  5. Presentation "Optimal Channel Assignment in Cellular Systems," Joint International TIMS/SOBRAPO Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 1991.
  6. Presentation "A model for international private network design," TIMS/ORSA Meeting, St. Louis, Oct 1987.
  7. Invited presentation "On the allocation of fixed costs," Mathematical Programming Conference, Boston, August 1985.

Selected Contributions to IEEE 802.11 Standards

  1. “Can RTS/CTS remedy problems caused by single-channel wireless meshes?” Doc IEEE 802.11-08-0075r0, March 2008, https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/file/08/11-08-0292-00-0wng-can-rts-cts-remedy-problems-caused-by-single-channel-wireless-meshes.ppt
  2. “Coexistence issues for single-channel wireless mesh”, Doc IEEE 802.11-08-0075r0, January 2008, https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/file/08/11-08-0075-00-0000-coexistence-issues-for-single-channel-wireless-mesh.ppt
  3. with K. Sinkar, “Performance Evaluation of ‘Express Forwarding’ for a Single-Channel Mesh”, Doc IEEE 802.11-07-2454, September 2007, https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/file/07/11-07-2454-01-000s-performance-evaluation-of-express-forwarding-for-a-single-channel-mesh.ppt
  4. “‘Express’ Forwarding for single-channel wireless mesh” Doc IEEE 802.11-07-2352r0, September 2007, https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/file/07/11-07-2452-02-000s-express-forwarding-for-single-channel-wireless-mesh.ppt
  5. “Proposed Multi-Purpose 802.11 MAC Extensions”, Doc IEEE 802.11-06-632r1, May 2006
  6. “Description of the CCC MMAC protocol”, Doc IEEE 802.11-05-666r1, June 20057
  7. “Proposed Normative Text for Simplified APSD”, Doc IEEE 802.11-03/107, January 2003
  8. “Self-Configurable Wireless LAN Systems”, Doc IEEE 802.11-02/211, March 2002
  9. “An Enhanced-DCF Proposal Based on ‘Tiered Contention’ Multiple Access (TCMA)”, Doc IEEE 802.11 00/457, October 2000