Guest editorial broadband access networks: Architectures and protocols

TY - JOUR

T1 - Guest editorial broadband access networks

T2 - Architectures and protocols

AU - Zheng, Jun

AU - Ansari, Nirwan

AU - Chlamtac, Imrich

AU - Li, Victor

AU - Wang, Ting

AU - Zukerman, Moshe

N1 - Funding Information: and ScD degrees in Electrical Engineer- ing and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massa-chusetts, in 1977, 1979, 1980, and 1981, respectively. He joined the University of Southern Cal-ifornia (USC), Los Angeles, California, USA in February 1981, and became Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the USC Communication Sciences Institute. Since September 1997 he has been with the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, where he is Associate Dean (Research) of Engineering, and Chair Professor of Information Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He has also served as Managing Director of Versitech Ltd., the technology transfer and commercial arm of the University, and on various corporate boards. His research is in information technology, including all-optical networks, wireless networks, and Internet technologies and applications. Sought by government, industry, and academic organizations, he has lectured and consulted extensively around the world. Prof. Li chaired the Computer Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society 1987-1989, and the Los Angeles Chapter of the IEEE Information Theory Group 1983-1985. He co-founded the International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N), and chaired its Steering Committee 1992-1997. He also chaired various international workshops and conferences, including, most recently, IEEE INFOCOM 2004 and IEEE HPSR 2005. Prof. Li has served as an editor of IEEE Network, IEEE JSAC Wireless Communications Series, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and Telecommunication Systems. He also guest edited special issues of IEEE JSAC, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, and KICS/IEEE Journal of Communications and Networking. He is now serving as an editor of ACM/Springer Wireless Networks. Prof. Li has been appointed to the Hong Kong Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). He served as a part-time member of the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong Government. He has also served on the Innovation and Technology Fund (Electronics) Vetting Committee, the Small Entrepreneur Research Assistance Programme Committee, and the Engineering Panel of the Research Grants Council. He was a Distinguished Lecturer at the University of California at San Diego, at the National Science Council of Taiwan, and at the California Polytechnic Institute. Prof. Li has also delivered keynote speeches at many international conferences. He has received numerous awards, including, most recently, the PRC Ministry of Education Changjiang Chair Professorship at Tsinghua University, Beijing, the UK Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Visiting Fellowship in Communications, the Outstanding Researcher Award of the University of Hong Kong, the Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowship, and the Order of the Bronze Bauhinia Star, Government of HKSAR, China. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1992. He is also a Fellow of the HKIE and the IAE.

PY - 2009/2

Y1 - 2009/2

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U2 - 10.1109/JSAC.2009.090201

DO - 10.1109/JSAC.2009.090201

M3 - Editorial

AN - SCOPUS:59649119215

SN - 0733-8716

VL - 27

SP - 97

EP - 100

JO - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

JF - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

IS - 2

M1 - 4769385

ER -