Biography
Kevin C. Almeroth is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California in Santa Barbara where his main research interests include computer networks and protocols, wireless networking, multicast communication, large-scale multimedia systems, and performance evaluation. At UCSB, Dr. Almeroth is the Associate Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS), a founding faculty member of the Media Arts and Technology (MAT) Program, Technology Management Program (TMP), and the Computer Engineering (CE) Program. In the research community, Dr. Almeroth has authored more than 125 refereed papers. He is the chair of the Steering Committee for the ACM Network and System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV) workshop; on the Editorial Board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Network, and ACM Computers in Entertainment; has co-chaired a number of conferences and workshops including the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS), the International Workshop On Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee), ACM Sigcomm Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), the Network Group Communication (NGC) workshop, and the Global Internet Symposium; and has been on the program committee of numerous conferences. Dr. Almeroth is the former chair of the Internet2 Working Group on Multicast, and is active in several working groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). He also serves on the boards of directors and/or advisory boards of several startups. Dr. Almeroth has also served as an expert witness in a number of interesting patent cases. He is a Member of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Awards/Honors
Selected Publications
See complete list of publications
- Enabling Intelligent Handovers in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks, Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), vol. 11, num. 2, 2006, 215-227, R. Chalmers, G. Krishnamurthi and K. Almeroth, web link
- Experience from the Design, Deployment and Usage of the UCSB MeshNet Testbed, IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 13, num. 2, 2006, 18-29, H. Lundgren, K. Ramachandran, E. Belding-Royer, K. Almeroth, M. Benny, A. Hewatt, A. Touma and A. Jardosh, web link
- A Hidden Environment Model for Constructing Indoor Radio Maps, International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM),, 2005, Z. Xiang, H. Zhang, J. Huang, S. Song and K. Almeroth, web link
- On the Design and Implementation of Infrastructure Mesh Networks, IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMesh), 2005, K. Ramachandran, M. Buddhikot, G. Chandranmenon, S. Miller, E. Belding-Royer, and K. Almeroth, web link
- Real-World Environment Models for Mobile Network Evaluation, Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Special Issue on Wireless Ad hoc Networks, vol. 23, num. 3, 2005, 622-632, A. Jardosh, E. Belding-Royer, K. Almeroth and S. Suri, web link
- A Mobility Gateway for Small-Device Networks, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2004, R. Chalmers and K. Almeroth, web link
- A Security Architecture for Mobility-Related Services, Journal of Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 29, num. 3, 2004, 247-261, R. Chalmers and K. Almeroth, web link
- Towards Realistic Mobility Models For Mobile Ad hoc Networks, ACM Mobicom, 2003, A. Jardosh, E. Belding-Royer, K. Almeroth and S. Suri, web link
- Power-Aware Data Management for Small Devices, Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM), 2002, S. Rollins, K. Almeroth, D. Milojicic, and K. Nagaraja, web link
- A Lightweight Protocol for Interconnecting Heterogeneous Devices in Dynamic Environments, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), 1999, K. Almeroth, K. Obraczka and D. De Lucia, web link
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