Transport-Layer Design Perspectives for Heterogeneous Networks
Vassilis Tsaoussidis · Conference on Local Computer Networks · 2006
Theintegration oftheInternet withwireless, satellite andhigh-speed components along withtheincreasing useofbattery-powered devices andad-hoc andsensor networking, calls foranewprotocol design perspective. Protocols atthetransport layer needtomanagethecomplexity ofvarying orevenconflicting userrequirements butalso needtointerpret correctly theunderlying signals fromvarious networks. In thiscontext, we discuss protocol strategies andperformance issues, aswellas architectural perspectives forthenextgeneration Internetworking. We gobeyond typical discussion, tocommentonthevarious network research directions today. Aboutthespeaker: Vassilis Tsaoussidis received a B.ScinApplied Mathematics fromAristotle University, Greece; aDiploma inStatistics andComputer Science fromtheHellenic Institute ofStatistics; andaPh.DinComputer Networks fromHumboldt University, Berlin, Germany(1995). Vassilis heldfaculty positions inRutgers University, New Brunswick, SUNY Stony BrookandNortheastern University, Boston. InMay2003, Vassilis joined theDepartment ofElectrical andComputer Engineering ofDemocritus University, Greece. Vassilis istheEditor-in-Chief forthenewjournal ofInternet Engineering, and editor forthejournals IEEETransactions inMobile Computing, Computer Networks, Wireless Communications andMobileComputing, Parallel, Emergentand Distributed Systems andMobileMultimedia. He isa memberofthesteering committee ofWWIC,chaired several conferences andjoined several Technical Program Committees suchasINFOCOM,GLOBECOM,Networking, ICCN,ISCC, EWCN,WLN,andseveral others.