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Tactical Ad-Hoc Mobile Networks (Part 2 - System Applications)
Kim, Jae ORGANIZER: Kim, Jae
Despite of intensive research efforts on mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) technology for many years, especially for military tactical applications, the current state-of-the-art MANET technology still does not scale beyond 100 nodes. Government research agencies (e.g., DARPA, ONR) are aggressively investing on the research programs for MANETs and sensor networks that can foresee self-organizing wireless networks of thousands and ultimately millions of nodes. In MILCOM 2006, the two series of sessions on "Tactical Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (Part 1- Protocols)" and "Tactical Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (Part 2 - Applications)" are organized to address all these technical issues, and discuss current status of tactical MANET and the future research direction.
Dr. Jae H. Kim is a Technical Fellow of Boeing Phantom Works. He is a Project Manager of Mobile Networking Technology and a Principal Investigator and Program Manager for a number of DoD contract programs. He is also currently an Affiliate Professor and Graduate Faculty of Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. He is presently an IEEE Associate Editor of Communications Letters. Prior to Boeing, he has been a Task Manager and Technical Staff of California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His current research focuses on wireless communications and mobile tactical networking, specifically communications on-the-move (COTM), mobile routing, network mobility management, TCP enhancement over satellite, recently more on cross-layer protocol design for MANET and sensor networks. Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. degree from Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is an author/co-author of 70+ publications, holds 3 U.S. patents, has received 7 NASA awards for technical innovation, and 25+ Boeing awards for technical performance recognition.