| Joseph P. Macker is a senior communication systems and network research scientist within the Information Technology Division at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. He presently leads the Protocol Engineering and Advanced Networking (Protean) Group that is investigating highly adaptive networking solutions for both mobile wireless and wired networking architectures. He holds an M.S.E.E. from George Washington University in Communications Theory and a B.S.E.E. from the University of Maryland, College Park. Mr. Macker has been a technology leader and trailblazer in the area of self-organizing and mobile Internet technology and helped formulate related work within the Internet standards community. He also was a contributor in pioneering work that developed efficient and reliable multicasting data transport protocols. Designs from this work have been used to disseminate and share data among large, dynamic groups of receivers within a broad set of Internet-based architectural scenarios. His primary research interests have been in the following areas: self-organizing network protocol and architecture design, multicast technology and data reliability, mobile wireless networking, cooperative software agents in ad hoc environments, multimedia networking, and adaptive sensor networking. Mr. Macker has a broad set of related publications, specifications, and a book chapter to his credit. In addition to his primary research and development work, Mr. Macker serves as co-chairman of the Mobile Ad Hoc Networking (MANET) Working Group within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). He has also served on the Steering and Program Committees for the annual ACM Mobihoc Symposium events. His present work focuses on applied research in dynamic, ad hoc networking technology and its application in future wireless architectures. |