RESEARCH ACTIVITIES IN HIGH-SPEED NETWORKING

				 Mohsen Guizani
			 Department of Computer Science
			  Western Michigan University
				    Abstract

Continued growth of the global Internet is one of the most interesting and
exciting phenomena in networking. Today, the Internet has grown into a
production communication system that reaches millions of people worldwide. In
the US, the Internet connects most corporations, colleges and universities, as
well as federal, state, and local government offices. It has reached most
elementary, junior, and senior high schools but soon will reach almost all the
rest. In addition, many private residences have access to the Internet through
dial-up telephone connections and fast cable systems. But, newer technologies
are providing even higher capacity services. This growth also has an economic
impact as well. Data networks have made telecommuting available to individuals
and have changed business communication. In addition, an entire industry has
emerged that develop networking technologies, products, and services. In
addition, computer programming is no longer restricted to individual computers.
Programmers are expected to design and implement application software that can
communicate with software on other computers.

This tremendous growth of the Internet has brought a number of issues to be
investigated by research communities. These include: internetworking protocols,
high-speed switch architectures, QoS, capacity allocation and network sizing
for voice and data over the Internet, network security, design and
implementation of network planning system models, wireless, ad-hoc and mobile
networks, etc. In this talk, we discuss our approach and results in few
on-going research projects. First, we present results of the design of a model
for network planning systems. Then, we discuss techniques for capacity
allocation and sizing to carry multiplexed traffic (data and voice) over the
Internet. Finally, we shed some light on hot few research area topics of
interest to all our community and students.     

BIOGRAPHY

Mohsen Guizani is currently a Professor and the Chair of the Computer Science
Department at Western Michigan University. He received his B.S. (with
distinction) and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering; M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in Computer Engineering in 1984, 1986, 1987, and 1990, respectively, from
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.

His research interests include Computer Networks, Wireless Communications and
Computing, and Optical Networking. He currently serves on the editorial boards
of six technical Journals and the Founder and EIC of "Wireless Communications
and Mobile Computing" Journal published by John Wiley (
"http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1530-8669/"). He is the author of
three books and in the process of writing another two. He guest edited a number
of special issues in Journal and Magazines. He also served as member, Chair,
and General Chair of a number of conferences. He has more than 120 publications
in refereed journals and conferences.

Dr. Guizani received both the Best Teaching Award and the Excellence in
Research Award from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1999 (a college wide
competition). He won the best Research Award from KFUPM in 1995 (a university
wide competition). He was selected as the Best Teaching Assistant for two
consecutive years at Syracuse University, 1988 and 1989.
                                                                                                 
Dr. Guizani is an active senior member of IEEE, member of IEEE
Communication Society, IEEE Computer Society, ASEE, ACM, OSA, SCS,
and Tau Beta Pi.