| Session: Commercial Wireless Technologies
Due to its low cost, high-data rate and ease of setup feature, IEEE 802.11 WLAN has become an attractive solution for military wireless tactical network deployments. However, the current 802.11 specifications do not support mesh networking which is one of the essential requirements for military tactical operation. IEEE 802.11s was formed in May 2004 to develop standards for mesh networking between access points (APs). MITRE has submitted contributions to shape the direction of the 802.11s standard development such that military requirements are included. This paper provides an overview of 802.11s and MITRE’s efforts/contributions (in usage scenario, mesh discovery, mesh resource allocation, and cross-layer optimization) to this task group. |
| Dr. D. J. Shyy is the Principal Communications Engineer within the MITRE Corporation’s Networking and Communications Department. He is also a part-time professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Shyy has 15 years of industrial experiences in Telecommunications. He has significant experiences in: Bluetooth, 802.11 mesh networking, 802.16e, cdma2000 and W-CDMA cellular system design and optimization, and wireless communications network performance modeling and simulation. He has three US patents in the area of wireless communications. He has more than 33 journal and conference publications. He has more than 17 contributions in IEEE 802 wireless standards meetings. He is a voting member of 802.11 and 802.16 standards committees. Dr. Shyy received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. |