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Informationen zum Autor Lin Cai received M.A.Sc and Ph.D degrees (with Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies Award) in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Since July 2005, she has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests span several areas in wireless communications and networking, with a focus on network protocol and architecture design supporting emerging multimedia traffic over wireless, mobile, ad hoc, and sensor networks. She serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2007-), EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2006-), and International Journal of Sensor Networks (2006-). Xuemin (Sherman) Shen received a B.Sc (1982) degree from Dalian Maritime University (China) and M.Sc (1987) and Ph.D degrees (1990) from Rutgers University, New Jersey (USA), all in electrical engineering. He is a University Research Chair Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research focuses on mobility and resource management in interconnected wireless/wired networks, UWB wireless communications networks, wireless network security, wireless body area networks and vehicular ad hoc and sensor networks. He is a co-author of three books, and has published more than 400 papers and book chapters in wireless communications and networks, control and filtering. He serves as the Tutorial Chair for IEEE ICC'08, the Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE Globecom'07, the General Co-Chair for Chinacom'07 and QShine'06 and the Founding Chair for IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on P2P Communications and Networking. He also serves as a Founding Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications; Editor-in-Chief for Peer-to-Peer Networking and Application; Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; KICS/IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks, Computer Networks; ACM/Wireless Networks; and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley), etc. He has also served as Guest Editor for IEEE JSAC, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine and ACM Mobile Networks and Applications, etc. Dr Shen received the Excellent Graduate Supervision Award in 2006, and the Outstanding Performance Award in 2004 and 2008 from the University of Waterloo, the Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) in 2003 from the Province of Ontario, Canada, and the Distinguished Performance Award in 2002 and 2007 from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo. Dr Shen is a Fellow of IEEE, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He is also a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario, Canada. Jon W. Mark received a B.A.Sc degree from the University of Toronto in 1962, and M.Eng. and Ph.D degrees from McMaster University in 1968 and 1970, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 1962 to 1970, he was an engineer and then a senior engineer at Canadian Westinghouse Co. Ltd., Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. In September 1970 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, where he is currently a Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He served as the Department Chairman during the period July 1984-June 1990. In 1996 he established the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) at the University of Waterloo and is currently serving as its founding Director. Dr Mark has been on sabbatical leave at the following places: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, as a Visiting Research Scientist (1976-77); AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, as a Resident Consultant (1982-83); Laboratoire MASI, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, as an Invited Pro...
