Networking Research Group - Professional Service
We believe in contributing to the community via papers, seminars, and involvement in conferences, journals, governmental panels etc. We consider this an important and integral part of our job as researchers. Here is a sampling of some of our activities.
Founder and Chair Positions
- ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing (SIGMOBILE)
- ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R)
- ACM/USENIX Mobile Systems Conference (MobiSys)
- ACM ACM Special Interest Group for the Computer/Communication System Performance (SIGMETRICS)
Steering Committee Membership
- IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) (2005 - present)
- ACM Distinguished Lectureship Program (Chair, 2004 - present)
- ACM/USENIX Mobile Systems Conference (MobiSys) (Chair, 2002 - present)
- ACM Sensor Systems Conference (SenSys) (2002 - present)
- IEEE Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems (2002 - present)
- ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) (1996 - present)
Journal Editorship
- Foundations and Trends in Networking (2005 - present)
- Computer Communications Review (2005 - present)
- Mobile Computing and Communications Review (Editor-in-Chief, 1996 - 2001; Senior Advisor 2001 - present)
- Telecommunications Journal (2001 - present)
- Elsevier's Adhoc Networks Journal (2002 - 2004)
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2002 - 2004)
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2002 - 2004)
- IEEE Journal on Selected Area in Communications - Wireless Communications Series (1998 - 2001)
- Wireless Networks Journal (1998 - 2004)
- Special issue on Wireless Mesh Networking: Theories, Protocols, and Systems, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, December 2005 (Guest Editor)
- Special issue on Multimedia Network Radios, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (June 1999) (Guest Editor)
- Special issue on Mobile Multimedia Communications, ACM Mobile Networking and Applications Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1. (1998) (Guest Editor)
- Special issue on Wireless Video, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 36, No. 6, (June 1998) (Guest Editor)
Conference Chair Positions
- General Chair for SIGCOMM 2008
- General Chair for ISWCS 2007
- General Chair for COMSWARE 2006
- Program Co-Chair for ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2005
- Workshop and Program Co-chair for ACM NOSSDAV 2004
- Program Co-Chair for IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers 2001
- Program Chair for ACM International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia 2001
- Tutorials Co-Chair: ACM MobiCom 2000, ACM MobiCom 2003
- General Vice-Chair for ACM MobiCom 1999
Incomplete list of Conference Program Committee Membership
- ACM SIGCOMM: 2004, 2005, 2006, 20072008
- ACM SIGMETRICS: 2003
- ACM MobiCom: 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
- ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC): 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006
- IEEE Infocom: 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
- CoNext: 2006
- IEEE Infocom Student Workshop: 2005
- ACM NOSSDAV: 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
- International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS): 1999,2001, 2005
- ACM Mobihoc: 2005
- ACM Multimedia: 2004
- SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN): 2002, 2003
- IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP): 2002, 2003
- USENIX Annual Technical Conference: 2004, 2005
- USENIX WORLDS: 2006
- International World Wide Web Conference (WWW): 2002, 2003, 2004
- Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN): 2003, 2004
- IEEE international Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC): 2001, 2002
- International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS): 2004, 2008
- IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS): 2004
- IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC): 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003
- IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Area Networks: 2001
- International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MoMuC): 1998, 1999
- Workshop on Multiaccess, Mobility and Teletraffic for Wireless Communications (MMT): 1998, 1999
- IEEE Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering (RIDE): 2000
- Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA): 2000
- ACM Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia (in conjunction with ACM MobiCom): 1999, 2000
- Performance and Architecture of Web Servers (in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS): 2000, 2001
- ACM Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET) (in conjunction with ACM MobiCom): 20042006
- Practical Aspects of Performance Analysis (PAPA) (in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS): 2002
- ACM SIGCOMM Asia Workshop: 2005
- IEEE Hot Interconnects:2005
- IEEE SECON:2008
Advisory Committees
- Academic Industry Working Conference on Research Challenges (AIWoRC 2000)
- Wireless Communications Technology program, University of Washington
Govenment Panels
- Networking of Sensor Systems, National Science Foundation, 2004
- Wireless Networking, National Science Foundation, July 2003
- Exchanges and Trends in Networking, sponsored by COST (EU) and NSF (USA), Chania, Greece (June 23, 2003)
- Network Research Testbed, Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Chicago, IL, USA (October 17-18, 2002), Final Report
- The Intersection of Geospatial Information and Information Technology, Study conducted by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB), National Research Council sponsored by NASA and NSF (September 2001)
- Wireless Information Technology and Networking Initiative, Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research (CISE/ANIR), National Science Foundation (July 1999)
- Networking Research Program, Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research, National Science Foundation (January 1999)
Thesis Committees
- Alhussein Abouzeid, M.S. (1999), Ph.D. (2001), University of Washington
- Chiara Petrioli, Ph. D. (2000) Universita degli Stud di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
- Marcelo Albuquerque, M.S. (2001), University of Washington
- Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, M.S. (2002), University of California Berkeley
- Anand Balachandran, Ph.D. (2003), University of California San Diego, [Now at Microsoft]
- Ranveer Chandra, Ph. D. (2005) Cornell University, [Now at Microsoft]
- Yuan Yuan, Ph. D. (2007) University of Maryland, [Now at Google]
- Srikanth Kandula, Ph. D. (expected 2007) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Yuvraj Agarwal, Ph. D. (expected 2008) University of California San Diego



