SAT – Wireless Communications and Networking

Recent years have witnessed rapid advances in wireless communications and networking technologies. Services and applications based on these technologies are expected to become pervasive in our society in the coming years. The goal of the Wireless Communications and Networking SAT is to foster breakthrough advances in physical layer communication technologies, to accelerate the development of networking technologies based on the advances at the physical layer, and to develop new services and applications to the global users. The mission of the SAT is to create necessary and new venues to the technical communities so as to accelerate the dissemination and advancement of wireless communications and networking technologies.

Thomas Hou - Committee Chair

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA, USA

Prof. Thomas Hou received the B.E. degree from the City College of New York in 1991, the M.S. degree from Columbia University in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, in 1998, all in Electrical Engineering. Since Fall 2002, he has been with Virginia Tech, the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, USA, where he is now an Associate Professor. His current research interests are networking technologies for cognitive radio based wireless networks, optimization and algorithm design for wireless networks, and video communications over ad hoc networks. From 1997 to 2002, he was a Researcher at Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Sunnyvale, CA.
Prof. Hou is a recipient of an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award (2003) and a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2004). He is active in professional services and is currently serving as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET), and Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal. Prof. Hou will serve as Co-Chair of Technical Program Committee of IEEE INFOCOM 2009, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prof. Hou holds two U.S patents and has three more pending.