US-T-AA
Mobile and Wireless Networks
Morris, Derek ORGANIZER: Brehove, Richard
This session features a variety of topics that address wireless networks, where radio frequency propagation, spectrum usage, time usage, and network topology dynamics all affect the performance of the network. This session includes posters that address Ultra Wideband, an indoor wireless model, and applications such as Blue Force Tracking and locating transmitters in wireless sensor networks. Authors will be available to discuss the implications of their work on current and future programs. The oral presentations will discuss some new applications, models, protocols, optimizations, and examples of cross-layering.
Richard Brehove is a Senior Network Systems Engineer in Northrop Grumman Tactical Systems Division. He received his B.S.E. from Loyola Marymount University and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University. He holds a GIAC Security Essentials Certificate from the SANS Institute and a patent in Fast File Transfer over the Internet. He has 26 years of experience that includes satellite ground systems, local and wide area network system integration, national and global communication systems, network security services, product development, manufacturing engineering, and product regulatory compliance.
Derek S. Morris holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is currently a member of the Sensor Networks Team, Space and Terrestrial Division (STCD) of the Communications-Electronics Research Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) at Fort Monmouth where he is applying ad-hoc network and sensor technologies to the global Army supply chain and is an advisor on the DARPA CBMANET program. Previously he has served as a Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University, at Stevens Institute of Technology, and Chaired the Software Engineering Department at Monmouth University. He has served as CTO of Media Tech, Inc. where he analyzed and simulated wireless, energy-limited Ad-Hoc sensor networks with MIMO links, developed entropy-aware and energy-aware network protocols (for CERDEC), was principal system and software architect for a naval carrier-based aircraft provisioning, launch, and recovery system (for NAVAIR), was advisor on graphics and data base technology on the Visible Human Project (Columbia University), and simulated the OSPF protocol (for ITT). Prior to entering academia he served as a CECOM Electronics Engineer where he was advisor to DARPA on the ADA project, principal architect of the ACS multi-mode communications system, designed the FFMED data entry device for TACFIRE, and designed the AN/PRC-9 Squad Radio receiver. He holds patents on communications techniques and devices.