IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Joint Chapter of the Vancouver/Victoria Sections
Window Management
Speaker: Prof. Abdallah Shami
University of Western Ontario
Dates and Locations
Wenesday, Jul. 10, 2013, 2::30 pm to 3:30 pm
Room: ASB 9705
Simon
Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Abstract
Known
as multihoming, devices with more than one network
interface can enhance their performance capabilities
by harnessing unused resources from alternative access
networks. Whether it is improved reliability or sheer
throughput potential, network devices will benefit
from a multihomed framework. Unfortunately, our
current means of guaranteeing reliability while
maintaining quality control, specifically, the
transmission control protocol (TCP), does not support
multihoming. Despite the latter, a relatively young
transport layer standard called the stream control
transmission protocol (SCTP), incorporates multihoming
into its design. In this talk, we present the state
of-the-art multihoming techniques using SCTP. A
comprehensive overview of three main research areas
will be presented, namely: handover management,
concurrent multipath transfer (CMT), and congestion
window management.
Biography
Abdallah Shami received the B.E. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon in 1997, and the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, New York, NY in September 2002. In September 2002, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada as an Assistant Professor. Since July 2004, he has been with Western University, Canada where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research interests are in the area of wireless/optical networking. Dr. Shami is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Communications Tutorials and SUrvey. Dr. Shami has chaired key symposia for IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE ICNC, and ICCIT. Dr. Shami is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Contact
Please contact Dr. Jie Liang
(Email: JieL at sfu dot ca)
if you have any question.