US-W-W
Wireless Networks: Fault Tolerance and Routing
Sethi, Adarsh ORGANIZER: Sethi, Adarsh
Fault tolerance and survivability have long been recognized as important attributes of military communications and networking capabilities. With the increasing use of wireless technologies, particularly mobile ad-hoc networks, which are inherently unreliable, the task of ensuring fault tolerance and survivability for the network resources, services, and applications has become even more challenging. Routing algorithms play an important role in this context because they provide one level of fault tolerance because of their adaptive features, but we still have a long way to go to achieve true application survivability. This unclassified technical session will focus on the techniques, protocols, and algorithms in various protocol layers which can improve the fault tolerance and survivability capabilities of wireless military networks.
Adarsh Sethi is a Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Sciences at the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA. He has an MS in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science, both from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He has served on the faculty at IIT Kanpur, was a visiting faculty at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, and Visiting Scientist at IBM Research Laboratories, Zurich, Switzerland, and at the US Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, MD. Dr. Sethi is on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Network and Systems Management, and on the editorial boards of eTNSM (IEEE electronic Transactions on Network and Service Management), International Journal of Network Management, and Electronic Commerce Research Journal. He was co-Chair of the Program Committee for ISINM '95, and was General and Program Chair for DSOM '98; he is also active on the program committees of numerous conferences. Dr. Sethi's research interests include architectures and protocols for network management, fault management, quality-of-service and resource management, and management of wireless networks.