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Ramesh Govindan received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California. His research interests include Internet routing and topology, and wireless sensor networks.
Parameswaran Ramanathan is a Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received the B. Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, in 1984, and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1986 and 1989, respectively.
From 1984 to 1989 he was a Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 1997–98, he was on sabbatical leave from the University. He spent his sabbatical leave at AT&T Labs, Whippany, New Jersey and Bellcore, Morristown, New Jersey. His research interests include the areas of wireless sensor networks, real-time systems, high-speed networks, fault tolerant computing, and distributed systems.
Krishna M. Sivalingam (ACM’93) is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of CSEE at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Previously, he was with the School of EECS at Washington State University, Pullman from 1997 until 2002; and with the University of North Carolina Greensboro from 1994 until 1997. He has also conducted research at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, and at AT&T Labs in Whippany, NJ. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994 and 1990 respectively; and his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 1988 from Anna University, Chennai (Madras), India. While at SUNY Buffalo, he was a Presidential Fellow from 1988 to 1991. His research interests include wireless networks, optical wavelength division multiplexed networks, and performance evaluation. He holds three patents in wireless networks and has published several research articles including more than twenty-five journal publications. He has published an edited book on wireless sensor networks in 2004 and edited books on optical networks in 2000 and 2004. He is co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Networks 2000 held in Singapore. He is a member of the Editorial Board for ACM Wireless Networks Journal, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and KICS Journal of Computer Networks.
He is serving as Technical Program Co-Chair for the First IEEE Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON) to be held in Santa Clara, CA in 2004. He has served as General Co-Chair for SPIE Opticomm 2003 (Dallas, TX) and for ACM Intl. Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA) 2003 held on conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2003 at San Diego, CA. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM.
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Govindan, R., Ramanathan, P. & Sivalingam, K. Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networks. Mobile Netw Appl 10, 489–490 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-005-1560-2
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