Panel Moderator: Qian Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology May 2008

Wireless Everywhere The interactions between mobile users, wireless devices (e.g., sensors, RFID) and their supporting communication and computing infrastructure will have significant impact to the architecture of future wireless networks

Technology Evolving Exciting technology evolving Cognitive radio networks, cooperative communication and networking, opportunistic networking, delay tolerant networks, as well as sensor/RFID networks Impact of those technologies to the overall network architecture design Roadmap to fully leverage those technologies

Panelists Prof. David B. Johnson, Rice University and Chair of ACM SIGMOBILE; Dr. E.K. Park, NSF Program Director; Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa; Prof. Lixin Gao, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Prof. Ying-Chang Liang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore; Mr. Bin Chen, Huawei Corp., China; Dr. PG Madhavan, CEO & Corp CTO of Zaplah Corporation

David B. Johnson Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University for eight years Received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1990 from Rice University Very active in IETF since 1993 Chair of ACM SIGMOBILE General Chair for MobiCom 2003 and VANET 2006; and Technical Program Chair for VANET 2005, MobiHoc 2002, and MobiCom 1997 Editor for six different journals

E.K. Park Professor of Computer Science at the University of Missouri Received PhD degree in Computer Science from the Northwestern University Program Director at US National Science Foundation, CISE Directorate, CCF and CNS Divisions Published over 140 technical papers including 2 best paper awards Founder of ICCCN and CIKM conferences

Ivan Stojmenovic Received all degrees in mathematics Published over 200 different papers, and edited four books on wireless ad hoc and sensor networks and applied algorithms Editor of dozen, and founder and editor-in-chief of three journals Royal Society Research Merit Award, UK Chaired and/or organized >30 workshops and conferences IEEE Fellow (Communications Society, 2008)

Lixin Gao Ph.D., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor, University of Massachusetts Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 2003 – 2005 Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Research interests Internet routing, network security, network virtualization, and multimedia networking Served on numerous technical program committees/organizing committees of prestigious conferences

Ying-Chang Liang Senior Scientist in the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore Cognitive radio and cooperative communications and the stand ardization activities in IEEE Adjunct associate professor in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and National University of Singapore (NUS) Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Best Paper Awards from IEEE VTC-Fall 1999 and IEEE PIMRC2005, and 2007 Institute Engineers of Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award

Bin Chen Senior research engineer of wireless system research department at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. M.S. degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 1998 Research interests: Wireless access system, dynamic spectrum access, cognitive radio networks, cooperative communication and networking

PG Madhavan CEO & Corp CTO of Zaplah Corporation , with Microsoft Corporation Worked on various wireless products including video over WLAN for Media Center, enterprise WLAN and outdoor WLAN mesh Had corporation-wide responsibilities in the areas related to UWB wireless Lucent/Agere in the areas of Bluetooth and wireless LAN/PAN coexistence Rockwell Automation Ph.D. from McMaster University Professor at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor