直接序列扩频通信中干扰抑制的进化规划自适应非线性滤波技术

进化规划（ＥｖｏｌｕｔｉｏｎａｒｙＰｒｏｇｒａｍｍｉｎｇ）是模拟生物界自然选择和变异机制的一种随机并行搜索优化算法。本文提出了应用于直接序列扩频通通信中窄带干扰抑制的基于进化规划的自适应非线性滤波技术，并与传统的自适应非线性滤波技术进行了比较，结果表明本文算法更优。不仅实现了自适应非线性滤波的全局寻优和快速收敛，而且提高了系统的稳定性，尤其对于极点靠近单位圆的ＡＲ模型信号干扰，滤波性能有较大的提高。     

用于低维混沌时间序列预测的一种非线性自适应预测滤波器

在二阶Volterra滤波器基础上,提出了一种用于低维混沌时间自适应预测的非线性自适应预测器。基于最小均方误差准则导出了一种NLMS类型的自适应算法来实时调整这种非线性滤波预测器的系数,仿真实验结果表明：这种线性化的非线性自适应滤波预测器能够有效地预测低维混时间序列,且它的模块化特征更易于VLSI电路实现,具有广泛的工程应用价值。     

混沌跳频通信的非线性自适应预测对抗

基于混沌跳频码序列构造固有的确定性、非线性等特点,提出了对抗混沌跳频通信的非线性自适应预测对抗的新概念.以Logistic-Kent映射设计的混沌跳频码为例,采用基于Sigmiod函数的Volterre自适应滤波预测器对其进行预测研究.仿真实验结果表明非线性自适应预测器比神经网络预测器具有更高的预测对抗效果.     

高频段频谱占用的Volterra预测方法研究

为了能够给高频用户提供较为可靠的空闲频段,需要对高频段频谱占用的情况进行预测。本文提出一种基于自适应Volterra滤波理论的预测方法,通过对频谱占用因子时间序列进行状态空间重构,并采用递推形式的自适应递归最小二乘算法实时调整Volterra模型的核系数。实际数据处理结果表明,该预测方法能够很好地跟踪频谱占用因子的非线性变化,具有预测误差小,训练计算复杂度低等优点。      

基于时间序列自适应建模的粒子滤波动态目标跟踪

在目标跟踪中为达到目标的运行模型与实际轨迹相符,本文提出基于时间序列自适应建模的粒子滤波算法（TS_PF）。采用时间序列方法动态构建预测模型,并将粒子滤波算法中一系列加权粒子以该模型进行状态转移,运用粒子滤波重采样技术,使预测误差进一步减小,预测精度逼近最优估计。仿真实验表明在粒子滤波算法中采用时间序列自适应建模,能够...     

基于交互式多模型粒子滤波的相控阵雷达自适应采样

为有效合理利用雷达资源和解决雷达测量值与运动状态间的非线性关系以及目标状态本身可能出现的非线性,提出了一种基于交互式多模型粒子滤波（IMMPF）的相控阵雷达自适应采样目标跟踪方法。将交互式多模型粒子滤波一步预测值的后验克拉美罗矩阵代替预测协方差矩阵。通过该矩阵的迹与某一门限值比较来更新采样周期以适应目标运动状态的变化。...     

一种散斑模式的噪声统计模型与自适应滤波方法

本文介绍了一种实际散斑模式的数学模型和噪声统计模型,并提出了一种针对这种模型的自适应次优滤波方法。文中在分析了散斑模式及其噪声性质的基础上,利用其局部方向性特征,结合最优线性滤波器和非线性滤波器的特点,对线性最小均方误差滤波器进行了自适应逼近。实验结果表明,对散斑模式而言,本文的滤波方法与其它常用的图象滤波方法相比,具有更好的去噪和边缘保护性能,并且具有较好的滤波韧性。     

对频率捷变雷达频率的预测

在分析几种伪随机码序列的混沌动力学特征基础上,以Logistic-Kent变频码序列的预测为例,着重研究了自适应块sigmoid-Volterra滤波预测的性能。与BP神经网络预测器相比,非线性自适应滤波预测方法可在短观察数据、少训练或无需训练,并可得较好的预测结果,可望成为一种付诸工程实现的对频率捷变频雷达预测引导瞄频干扰的有效方法。最后给出了非线性自适应预测对抗技术今后的研究建议。     

应用粒子滤波及先验概率模型 进行图像分割的新算法

基于粒子滤波在非线性非高斯情况下具有较好的预测结果,本文提出了一种自适应背景图像分割新算法,该算法利用粒子滤波对下一帧的前景区域进行预测,进而计算出下一帧各像素点属于背景的概率以指导下一帧图像分割;在前景像素值与背景像素值相近的情况下利用先验知识进行图像分割是一种较好的方法,本文以粒子滤波预测结果与先验概率模型计算结果的均值作为当前像素点属于背景的概率来进行图像分割,实验结果表明,该方法在背景变化范围较大的情况下,可以减少前景点误分割为背景点的概率.     

Sage_Husa自适应滤波在大方位失准角初始对准的研究

由于光纤惯导系统导航精度不高,方位角常为大角度,因此系统初始对准的滤波方程为非线性的,为改善非线性模型下初始对准的精度,提出了一种改进Sage_Husa自适应卡尔曼滤波方法并应用于光纤惯导系统初始对准中。建立了大方位失准角初始对准的非线性误差模型,给出了Sage_Husa自适应卡尔曼滤波方程,对Sage_Husa自适应卡尔曼滤波不适合用在非线性滤波的缺陷进行了改进,建立系统噪声统计的估值器,对非线性误差方程进行了改进Sage_Husa自适应卡尔曼滤波仿真。仿真结果表明:改进Sage_Husa自适应卡尔曼滤波能够很好地处理初始对准中的非线性问题,提高初始对准精度,方位失准角误差估计精度较EKF提高27%。     

Improved LUT Technique for HPA Nonlinear Pre-Distortion in OFDM Systems

In this paper, we focus on the Look-up Table (LUT) technique for the compensation of HPA nonlinear distortion. An improved LUT method is proposed with better performance compared with conventional LUT technique in terms of convergence speeds, BER and total degradation (TD). It can get over 8 dB gain in out-of-band spectrum re-growth suppression and about 0.3 dB BER performance gain than conventional LUT technique with the same iteration times. Also, we propose an actual application of HPA with pre-distorter in OFDM transmitter. Ai Bo was born in Shannxi Province in China on February 7, 1974. He received a BSc. Degree from Engineering Institute of Armed Police Force in 1997, a Master and Dr. degree from Xidian University in 2002 and 2004 in China respectively, and now working as a post dr. in Dept. of E&E, state of key lab. on microwave and digital communications in Tsinghua University in China. He has once participated in the key research project on HDTV in TEEG (Team of Engineering Expert Group) of China. He is an editorial committee member of journal of “Computer Simulations”, “Information and Electronic Engineering”, an IEEE member and a senior member of Electronics Institute of China (CIE). He has published over 60 scientific papers in his research area till now. His current interests are the research and applications of OFDM techniques with emphasis on synchronization and HPA linearization techniques. Yang Zhi-Xing graduated from Tsinghua University, P.R. China in 1970. He is now a Professor and Deputy Director of State Key Lab. on Microwave and Digital Communication at the Department of Electronic Engineering and the Director of the DTV R&D Center in Tsinghua University. As a DTV technical expert for the Chinese government, Professor Yang has also been a member of the DTV standardization Committee of China and a leader of the DTV Standardization Harmonizing Group in Ministry of Information Industry of China. His major research interests include broadband information transmission technologies and DTV broadcasting systems. Pan Chang-Yong received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering in Tsinghua University, P.R. China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He is now an associate professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and a member of the DTV R&D Center in Tsinghua University. His research interests are in the areas of broadband wireless transmission systems and satellite communications. Zhang Tao-Tao was born in Shandong Province in China in 1982, he received BSc. degree from Tsinghua University in 2004 and now pursing his Master degree in Dept. of E&E, state of key lab. on microwave and digital communications in Tsinghua University in China. His research interests is the power amplifier linearization techniques. Wang Yong was born in Shannxi Province in China in 1976. He received a BSc., a Master and a Dr. Degree from Xidian University in China in 1997, 2002 and 2005, respectively, and now is an associate professor in Xidian University. He has once participated in the key research project on HDTV in TEEG (Team of Engineering Expert Group) in China and is an IEEE Member. His interests are broadband multimedia communications. Ge Jian-Hua was born in September, 1961 in JiangSu Province in China. He received the B.Sc., Master and Ph.D. degree from Xidian University in 1982, 1985 and 1989, respectively. He is now the professor in both Xidian University in Xi’an and Shanghai Jiaotong University in Shanghai. He is the senior member of Chinese Electronics Institute. He has won lots of scientific and technical prizes in China and published many papers. His interests are transmission communications and web security.     

UMTS及EPC网络QoS机制的研究

随着社会的发展,用户对业务质量的需求也日益提高,为此3GPP组织加强了对QoS的研究,在UMTS阶段引入了端到端QoS机制,并在LTE阶段对QoS机制进行了扩展和增强,目前QoS的研究是3GPP研究的一个热点。本文对3GPP移动通信网QoS演进进行了介绍,分析了UMTS和EPC网络的QoS实现机制,并对两种QoS实现机制进行了分析。     

Dopamine: Just the Right Medicine for Membranes

Mussel‐inspired chemistry has attracted widespread interest in membrane science and technology. Demonstrating the rapid growth of this field over the past several years, substantial progress has been achieved in both mussel‐inspired chemistry and membrane surface engineering based on mussel‐inspired coatings. At this stage, it is valuable to summarize the most recent and distinctive developments, as well as to frame the challenges and opportunities remaining in this field. In this review, recent advances in rapid and controllable deposition of mussel‐inspired coatings, dopamine‐assisted codeposition technology, and photoinitiated grafting directly on mussel‐inspired coatings are presented. Some of these technologies have not yet been employed directly in membrane science. Beyond discussing advances in conventional membrane processes, emerging applications of mussel‐inspired coatings in membranes are discussed, including as a skin layer in nanofiltration, interlayer in metal‐organic framework based membranes, hydrophilic layer in Janus membranes, and protective layer in catalytic membranes. Finally, some critical unsolved challenges are raised in this field and some potential pathways are proposed to address them.     

Dose control circuit for digital electrostatic electron-beam array lithography

This paper demonstrates a technique for controlling the electron emission of an array of field emitting vertically aligned carbon nanofibers (VACNFs). An array of carbon nanofibers (CNF) is to be used as the source of electron beams for lithography purposes. This tool is intended to replace the mask in the conventional photolithography process by controlling their charge emission using the “Dose Control Circuitry” (DCC). The large variation in the charge emitted between CNFs grown in identical conditions forced the controller design to be based on fixed dose rather than on fixed time. Compact digital control logic has been designed for controlling the operation of DCC. This system has been implemented in a 0.5 μm CMOS process. Chandra Sekhar A. Durisety received his B.E. (Hons.) Instrumentation from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, India in 1997 and his M.S in Electrical Engineering from University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2002. Since 2003, he has been working towards his Ph.D degree also in Electrical Engineering at Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab (ICASL), University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He joined Wipro Infotech Ltd, Global R & D, Bangalore, India in 1997, where he designed FPGA based IPs for network routers. Since 1999, he was involved in the PCI bridge implementation at CMOS chips Inc, Santa Clara, CA, and the test bench development for Sony’s MP3 player, while at Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc., San Jose, CA. His research interests include multi-stage amplifiers, data converters, circuits in SOI and Floating Gate Devices. Rajagopal Vijayaraghavan received the B.E degree in electronics and communication engineering from Madras University in 1998 and the M.S degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas, Dallas in 2001.He is currently working towards the Ph.D degree in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee. His research interest is in the area of CMOS Analog and RF IC design. His current research focuses on LNAs and VCOs using SOI based MESFET devices. Lakshmipriya Seshan was born in Trivandrum, India on April 30, 1979. She received her B.tech in Electronincs & Communication Engg from Kerala University, India in June 2000 and M.S in Electrical Engg from University of Tennessee in 2004. In 2004, she joined Intel Corporation as an Analog Engineer, where she is engaged in the design of low power, high speed analog circuits for various I/O interface topologies. Syed K. Islam received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Connecticut. He is presently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Islam is leading the research efforts of the Analog VLSI and Devices Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. His research interests are design, modeling and fabrication of microelectronic/optoelectronic devices, molecular scale electronics and nanotechnology, biomicroelectronics and monolithic sensors. Dr. Islam has numerous publications in technical journals and conference proceedings in the areas of semiconductors devices and circuits. Benjamin J. Blalock received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1991 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, also in electrical engineering, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1993 and 1996 respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Tennessee where he directs the Integrated Circuits and Systems Laboratory (ICASL). His research focus there includes analog IC design for extreme environments (both wide temperature and radiation immune), multi-gate transistors and circuits on SOI, body-driven circuit techniques for ultra low-voltage analog, mixed-signal/mixed-voltage circuit design for systems-on-a-chip, and bio-microelectronics. Dr. Blalock has co-authored over 60 published refereed papers. He has also worked as an analog IC design consultant for Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Concorde Microsystems Inc.     

欧洲科学商店及其启示

科学商店是荷兰在20世纪70年代创造的,现在已扩展到欧洲许多国家。科学商店不是传统意义上的商店,而是一种科学传播的理念和服务。它运用双向互动的科学传播创新机制,支持科研人员深入社区、拓宽研究范围;为社区居民提供科学和研究服务;为大学学生创造实践和了解社会的机会。参与科学商店研究项目的工作人员、科研人员、市民和其他专业人员都可以从中受益。我国的科普工作可以借鉴欧洲科学商店的运作机制和成功经验,在建立全社会支持科普工作的机制和网络、创新社区科学传播活动和提高公众的科学素质和参与度等方面进行思考和探索。     

Context-Based Network and Application Management on Seamless Networking Platform

A context-based adaptive communication system is introduced for use in heterogeneous networks. Context includes the user's presence, location, available network interfaces, network availability, network priority, communication status, terminal features, and installed applications. An experimental system was developed to clarify the feasibility of using context information to flexibly control networks and applications. The system operates on a seamless networking platform we developed for heterogeneous networks. By using contexts, the system can inform the caller and callee of applications they can access, which are available through the network before communication occurs. Changes in contexts can switch an on-going application to another during actual communication. These functions provide unprecedented styles of communication. A business scenario for a seamless networking provider is also presented. Dr. Morikawa has also been in charge of NICT's Mobile Networking Group. Masugi Inoue received his B.E. from Kyoto University in 1992 and his M.E. and D.E. from the University of Tokyo in 1994 and 1997, all in the field of Electrical Engineering. He is currently a senior researcher at the Yokosuka Radio Communications Research Center under the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan, and has been engaged in R&D on ultrahigh-speed WLANs and mobile networking. He joined the Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Japan, in 1997, which was reorganized as NICT in April 2004. He was a visiting researcher at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York in 2000. Khaled Mahmud received his B.Sc. (Eng.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in Dhaka in 1991. He received his M.E. and Ph.D. in the same field from Shizuoka University in Japan, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He was a research fellow at NICT, Japan, from 2000 to 2004. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at North South University, Bangladesh. His research interests include modulation-demodulation techniques, software radio, mobile communication systems, wireless Internet, and IP mobility technologies. Homare Murakami received his B.E. and M.E. in Electronic Engineering from Hokkaido University in 1997 and 1999. In 2004, he received the Young Investigators Award from IEICE. He is currently a researcher at NICT's Mobile Networking Group. He is also an industrial PhD student in Aalborg University since 2003. His interest areas are naming scheme, wireless TCP and new transport protocol, IP mobility, fast handover method, and location management. Mikio Hasegawa received his B. Eng, M. Eng., and Dr. Eng. in 1995, 1997, and 2000 from Science University of Tokyo. From 1997 to 2000, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). He is currently a senior researcher in Mobile Networking Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and a technical advisor in ChaosWare Inc. His research interests include applications of chaotic dynamical theory, combinatorial optimization, mobile networks, and ubiquitous computing. Hiroyuki Morikawa received his B.E., M.E., and D.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1987, 1989, and 1992. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Frontier Informatics at the University of Tokyo and is in charge of NICT's Mobile Networking Group. His research interests are in the areas of computer networks, mobile computing/networks, ubiquitous computing, and network services. He serves as Editor of Transactions of the IEICE and has been on the technical program committees of IEEE/ACM conferences and workshops. He sits on numerous telecommunications advisory committees and frequently serves as a consultant to the government.     

中国地区云量和云光学厚度的分布与变化趋势

利用最新的1983~2009年国际卫星云气候计划（ISCCP） D2月平均资料集,得到了中国地区总云量、低云量、中云量、高云量与云光学厚度的分布与变化趋势,结果表明：中国总云量和中云量呈现南多北少的分布,青藏高原地区高云量较大而低云量很小;总云量和中云量在东部呈增加趋势,西部呈减小趋势,低云量和高云量在大部分地区呈减小趋势。从不同季节来看,春季和秋季北方总云量增加,西部总云量减小;夏季大部分地区总云量增加,冬季大部分地区总云量减少。云的光学厚度呈现南多北少的分布,且在大部分地区呈增加趋势。同时利用中分辨率成像光谱仪（MODIS）资料分析了2001~2013年间中国不同污染地区总云量与云光学厚度的分布及变化趋势的异同,结果表明：中国不同污染地区云量与云光学厚度呈现不同的分布和变化规律。     

Thyristor Input-Protection Device Suitable for CMOS RF IC’s

Based on simulation results and accompanying analysis, we suggest a thyristor-type ESD protection device structure suitable for implementation in standard CMOS processes to reduce the parasitic capacitances added to the input nodes, which is very important in CMOS RF ICs. We compare DC breakdown characteristics of the suggested device to those of a conventional NMOS protection device to show the benefits of using the suggested device for ESD protection. The characteristic improvements are demonstrated and the corresponding mechanisms are explained based on simulations. Structure dependencies are also examined to define the optimal structure. AC simulation results are introduced to estimate the magnitude of reduction in the added parasitic capacitance when using the suggested device for ESD protection. The analysis shows a possibility of reducing the added parasitic capacitance down to about 1/45 of that resulting with a conventional NMOS protection transistor, while maintaining robustness against ESD.Jin-Young Choi was born in Seoul, Korea in 1956. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Seoul National University, Korea, in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, USA, in 1986 and 1991, respectively. In 1991, he joined Samsung Electronics Memory Division, Korea, where he was engaged in high-speed SRAM development. In 1992, he moved to the Hongik University, Jochiwon, Korea, where he is now an associate professor. His recent research interests include the high-frequency modeling of CMOS devices, CMOS RF circuit design, and analysis & design for ESD protection.Woo Suk Yang was born in Seoul, Korea in 1957. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Seoul National University, Korea, in 1979, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the North Calorina State University, USA, in 1990. His doctorial research was in the area of signal processing. In 1990, he joined LG Electronics Co. Korea. In 1991, he moved to the Hongik University, Jochiwon, Korea, where he is now a professor. His recent research interests include the high-frequency modeling and various topics in signal processing area.Dongmin Kim was born in Korea in 1956. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Seoul National University, Korea, in 1979 and 1984, respectively and the Ph.D. degree in ECE from the University of Michigan, USA, in 1996. Now, he is an assistant professor of the Hongik University, Jochiwon, Korea. His recent research interests include circuit design and analysis.Youngju Kim was born in Seoul, Korea in 1957. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Seoul National University, Korea in 1980 and 1985, respectively and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University of New York, USA, in 1995, respectively. In 1996, he joined the Hongik University, Jochiwon, Korea, where he is now an assistance professor. His recent research interests include the RF circuit design and LIN wireless systems.     

Towards the performance evaluation of 4th generation wireless communication standards: LTE versus Mobile WiMAX

Advances in wireless communication protocols and networking toward support of the next generation of mobile and radio broadband technologies have contributed to a strong competition among various telecommunication standards in particular Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX). In this paper, we provide an in‐depth comparison analysis of LTE and Mobile WiMAX at the physical (PHY) layer by studying the most similar PHY configuration scenarios for these two technologies. Our study includes a throughput analysis of downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) transmissions in time division duplex with the least overhead possible and different antenna schemes as well as modulation and code rates. This study also performs an overhead analysis in both protocols to provide a more in‐depth understanding of the PHY layer capacity in various PHY layer configurations. Our simulation results generally show higher performance for LTE in both DL and UL transmission with 7 Mbps in DL and 5 Mbps in UL, when using one antenna port. However, by increasing the number of antennas for multiple‐input/multiple‐output configurations, the results illustrate a reduction in the performance of LTE compared to Mobile WiMAX. This arises from the increase in reference signal overhead in LTE from 4.7% in single‐input/single‐output (SISO) to 14.28% in 4 × 4 multiple‐input/multiple‐output (MIMO). Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Non-Cooperative Games for Service Differentiation in CDMA Systems

In this paper, we address the problem of user-class based service differentiation in CDMA networks. Users are categorized into three classes who get differentiated services based on their expected quality of service (QoS) from the service provider and the price they are willing to pay. We adopt a game theoretic approach for allocating resources through a two-step process. During a service admission, resource distribution is determined for each class. Then, the resource allocated to each class is distributed among the active users in that class. We devise a utility function for the providers which considers the expected revenue and the probability of users leaving their service provider if they are not satisfied with the service. Our model demonstrates how power can be controlled in a CDMA network to differentiate the service quality. Also, we show the impact of admitting high paying users on other users. Mainak Chatterjee received his Ph.D. from the department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington in 2002. Prior to that, he completed his B.Sc. with Physics (Hons) from the University of Calcutta in 1994 and M.E. in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1998. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida. His research interests include economic issues in wireless networks, applied game theory, resource management and quality-of-service provisioning, ad hoc and sensor networks, CDMA data networking, and link layer protocols. He serves on the executive and technical program committee of several international conferences. Haitao Lin received the BE degree in radio engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1996, the MS degree in computer applications from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2000, and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington in 2004. He is currently with Converged Multimedia Services System Engineering at Nortel, Richardson, Texas. His research interests include wireless network performance evaluation and enhancement, wireless link adaptation, wireless network resource management, and applied game theory. Sajal K. Das received B.S. degree in 1983 from Calcutta University, M.S. degree in 1984 from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and Ph.D. degree in 1988 from University of Central Florida, Orlando, all in Computer Science. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and also the Founding Director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Prior to 1999, he was a professor of Computer Science at the University of North Texas (UNT), Denton where he founded the Center for Research in Wireless Computing (CReW) in 1997, and also served as the Director of the Center for Research in Parallel and Distributed Computing (CRPDC) during 1995–97. Dr. Das is a recipient of the UNT Student Association's Honor Professor Award in 1991 and 1997 for best teaching and scholarly research; UNT's Developing Scholars Award in 1996 for outstanding research; UTA's Outstanding Faculty Research Award in Computer Science in 2001 and 2003; and the UTA College of Engineering Research Excellence Award in 2003. He is also frequently invited as a keynote speaker at international conferences and symposia. Dr. Das' current research interests include mobile wireless communications, resource and mobility management in wireless networks, mobile and pervasive computing, wireless multimedia, ad hoc and sensor networks, mobile internet architectures and protocols, distributed and grid computing, performance modeling and simulation. He has published over 350 research papers in these areas in international journals and conferences, directed numerous industry and government funded projects, and holds five US patents in wireless mobile networks. He received four Best Paper Awards in the ACM MobiCom'99, ICOIN'01, ACM MSWiM'00, and ACM/IEEE PADS'97. He as the Editor in Chief of the Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal and also as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks, Parallel Processing Letters, Journal of Parallel, Distributed and Emerging Systems. He served as General Chair of IEEE WoWMoM'05, PerCom'04, IWDC'04, MASCOTS'02, ACM WoWMoM'00-02; General Vice Chair of IEEE PerCom'03, ACM MobiCom'00 and IEEE HiPC'00-01; Program Chair of IWDC'02, WoWMoM'98-99; TPC Vice Chair of ICPADS'02; and as TPC member of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences. He is Vice Chair of the IEEE Computer Society's TCPP and TCCC Executive Committees.