Recent Development in Wireless Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks

Prof. Srikanta Patnaik is presently serving as Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He holds Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering from Jadavpur University, India. He has published more than 80 research papers and articles in international journals and magazines of repute. He has supervised 10 research scholars for their Ph.D. degrees. He has completed various funded projects as Principal Investigator from various funding agencies of India. Presently, he is serving as Editor-in-Chief of two international journals namely, International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics, published from Inderscience Publishing House, England and also Editor-in-Chief of Springer Book Series on Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology [MOST].

Dr. Xiaolong Li is working as Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology, Indiana State University since 2008. He has done his Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering in the year 2006 from University of Cincinnati. He did his M.S. in Electronics & Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in the year 2002 and did his B.A. in Electronics & Electronics & Information Engineering, from the same University of Science and Technology, China in 1999. His major research includes Wireless and Mobile Networks, Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless Internet, Modeling and Performance Analysis, QoS in Communication Networks, Wireless Mesh Network, Microcontroller-based Applications, Security in Wireless Networks. He has more than 30 International publications in International Journals and conference proceedings of repute. He has also contributed a Book Chapter entitled "Impact of Mobility on the Performance of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Performance Analysis of Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks”, published by NOVA Publishers. He hasassociation with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE), and Epsilon Pi Tau (EPT).

Prof. Yeon-Mo Yang is a Professor in the department of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, Korea. He received the B. Engg. in the field of electrical and electronic engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea in 1990 and Ph.D. degree from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea in 2006, in the field of optical networks. From 2005 to 2006, he was a post-doctoral fellow in North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh in networks engineering and a short time visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, in wireless sensor networks. From 2006 to 2008, he was in Daegu-Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) as a senior researcher where he has been a project leader of the developments of wireless sensor networks. His current research interests include wireless sensor networks analysis and implementation both at the physical layer and at the networks layer; dynamic bandwidth allocation schemes in passive optical networks; and realizations of hybrid embedded systems connected to Under Acoustic Sensor Networks, Mechatronics and Information Technology.