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Awards IEEE Fellow, Citation: for contributions to the design of wireless networks and systems and leadership in mobile computing and communications , (November 2007) Distinguished ACM Speaker (2007-2008) IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2007-2008) ACM Fellow, Citation: for contributions to wireless communication systems, and leadership in the mobile computing and communications community, (November 2003) SIGMOBILE Distinguished Service Award, Citation: for passion about and effectiveness in advancing the interests of ACM SIGMOBILE and its conferences, (July 2001) Digital Equipment Corp.’s (now Hewlett Packard) Doctoral Engineering Fellowship Award, (March 1994) Founder 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) Chair, Vice Chair, & Executive Committee Member, ACM SIGMOBILE (Chair: July 2001 - June 2006; Vice Chair: July 1996 - June 2001) Annual Report 1998 | Annual Report 1999 Steering Committee Member ACM / USENIX Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services Conference (MobiSys) (2001 - present) IEEE Conference on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) (2005 - present) ACM Sensor Systems Conference (SenSys) (2002 - 2006) IEEE Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems (2002 - present) The ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) (1996 - present) Conference Chair General Chair, SIGCOMM 2008, Seattle, WA, USA, August 17-22 2008 General Chair, ISWCS 2007, Trondheim, Norway, October 17-19, 2007 Program Chair, ACM VANET 2006, Los Angeles, California, USA, September 29, 2006 General  Chair, IEEE COMSWARE 2006, New Delhi, India, January 8-12, 2006 Program Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers ETH Zurich, Switzerland, October 8-9, 2001 Program Chair, ACM / IEEE WoWMoM 2001, Rome, Italy, July 21, 2001 General  Chair, MobiCom 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 15-20, 1999 Editorial Board Member   Foundations and Trends in Networking (2005 - present) Elsevier's Adhoc Networks Journal (November 2002 - November 2004) Kluver's Telecommunications Journal (11/01 - present) IEEE Journal on Selected Area in Communications - Wireless Communications Series (4/98 - 2/01) ACM Wireless Networks Journal (9/98 - present) ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (Editor-in-Chief, 1996 - 2001; Senior Advisor 2001 - present) Standards Working Group Co-Chair Bluetooth Local Positioning Working Group, (10/99 - 9/00) Guest Editor Special issue on Wireless Mesh Networking: Theories, Protocols, and Systems, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (Dec. 2005) Special issue on Multimedia Network Radios, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (June 1999) Special issue on Mobile Multimedia Communications, CM Mobile Networking and Applications Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1. (1998) (CFP) Special issue on Wireless Video, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 36, No. 6, (Jun. 1998) Tutorials IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, November 26, 2007, Washington DC IEEE INFOCOMM 2007, May 6, 2007, Anchorage, Alaska ACM SIGCOMM 2006, September 11, 2006, Pisa, Italy Technical Program Committee Member (incomplete list): ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking - MobiCom '96, MobiCom '97, MobiCom '98, MobiCom '99, MobiCom '00, MobiCom '01, MobiCom '02, MobiCom '03, MobiCom '04, MobiCom '05, MobiCom '06, MobiCom '07 ACM / USENIX Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services - MobiSys '06 IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks - LANMAN 2007 Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks - IPSN '03, IPSN '04 IEEE international Symposium on Wearable Computers - ISWC '01, ISWC '02 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications -- INFOCOM ’96, INFOCOM '97, INFOCOM '98 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems - ICDCS '99, ICDCS '01, ICDCS '07 World Wide Web Conference WWW '04 IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Area Networks - 2001, Newton-Boston, Massachusetts IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications - PIMRC '98, PIMRC '99, PIMRC '00, PIMRC '02, PIMRC '03 International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communications - MoMuC '98, MoMuC '99 Workshop on Multiaccess, Mobility and Teletraffic for Wireless Communications - MMT '98, MMT '99 IEEE Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering - RIDE 2000 Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications - WMCSA 2000 IEEE Wireless Conference Steering Committee, IEEE Communications Society, (1999-2001) Advisory Committee of Academic Industry Working Conference on Research Challenges (AIWoRC 2000) Government Panels & Workshops (incomplete list): Residential Broadband Revisited: Research Challenges in Residential Networks, Broadband Access and Applications, October 2003 Final Report 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) Conference Panels (incomplete list): Wireless Futures, IEEE ISWCS 2007, Trondheim, Norway, October 18, 2007 Openness and the Public Airwaves, ACM MobiHoc 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, May 36, 2005 Wireless Community Mesh Networks - Hype or the Next Big Frontier? ACM MobiCom 2004, Philadelphia, PA, September 30, 2004 Wireless Multimedia: Hype & Reality, ACM NOSSDAV 2004, Cork Ireland, June 18, 2004 The Technical and Business Challenges in Wide Deployment of WLAN Hotspot Networks, ACM WMASH 2003 Which Wireless Network Technology will Prevail for Scalable Mobile Multimedia Services, WoWMoM, Atlanta, Georgia, USA September 28, 2002 WiFi versus GPRS versus 3G, Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, August 21, 2002 (ppt, 1,121 KBytes) Forget it! A "No-G" Network based on wireless LANs will be coming shortly. Or will it?, Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications, Callicoon, New York, USA. June 21, 2002 Will Pervasive Computing be Manageable?, IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Seattle, Washington USA. May 16, 2001 Can Mobile Internet be all Pervasive?, ACM WoWMoM 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, August 11, 2000 Home and Small Office Networking: What are the options?, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, San Fransisco, California, February 2000 Building and Managing Large Wireless LANs: Real World Experiences, ACM/IEEE MobiCom '97, Budapest, Hungry, September 29, 1997, (Intro Slides - Power Point) Standardizing Benchmarking in Industry for Networks, International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks - IC3N '95, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 1995 Conference Session Chair (incomplete list): Challenges, ACM MobiCom 2002, Atlanta, Georgia, September 27, 2002 Fairness and Scheduling, ACM MobiHoc 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2002 Location- and Context- Aware Mobile Computing, ACM MobiCom 2001, Rome, Italy, July 2001 Challenges, ACM MobiCom 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2000 Network Protocols for Wireless Applications, IEEE PIMRC, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1997 Mobile Multimedia, IEEE ICUPC, San Diego, California, USA, 1997 Wireless Multimedia Communications, IEEE Computer Communications Workshop, Reston, Virginia, 1996 Multimedia: Scheduling and Management, IEEE INFOCOM, San Fransisco, California, 1996 External Referee for Ph. D. Thesis, Universita degli Stud di Roma La Sapienza, Departimento Di Science Dell'Informazione, Roma, Italy President, electrical engineering honor society: Eta Kappa Nu, Zeta Pi Chapter (5/87 - 6/88)