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14] Nanda, S. Teletra c Models for Urban and Suburban Microcells: Cell Sizes and Hando Rates. IEEE Trans. on Veh. Technol., 42(4), 1993. 15] Padgett, J.E., Gunther, C.G., and Hattori, T. Overview of Wireless Personal Communications. IEEE Communications Magazine, pages 28{41, January 1995. 16] Rappaport, S.S. Blocking, hand-o and tra c performance for cellular communication systems with mixed platforms. IEE PROCEEDINGS-I, 140(5):389{401, 1993. 17] Tekinary, S. and Jabbari, B. A Measurement Based Prioritization Scheme for Handovers in Cellular and Microcellular Networks. IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., pages 1343{1350, October 1992. 18] Watson, E.J. Laplace Transforms and Applications. Birkhauserk, 1981. 19] Xie, H., and Kuek, S. Priority Hando Analysis. Proc. IEEE VTC, pages 855{ 858, 1993.
Imrich Chlamtac holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Minnesota (1979), and B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mathematics awarded with Highest Distinction. He is a Professor and holds the Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications at the University of a member of the Photonics Center at Boston University, and President of BCN Inc., a company dealing with network design, integration and technology transfer in wireless data and high speed communications jointly with Boston University. Dr. Chlamtac's research interests include research and implementation aspects of mobile networks and wireless communication systems, optical networks, ATM, and multimedia communication. He has published close to two hundred papers in refereed journals and conferences. He is the author of over thirty invited papers, multiple book chapters, and Encyclopedias. In 1981 he coauthored the rst textbook on LAN-s entitled \Local Networks: Motivation, Technology and Performance". Dr. Chlamtac serves as the founding Editor in Chief of the ACM/URSI/Baltzer Wireless Networks (WINET) and the ACM/Baltzer Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET). He served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Communications, Computer Networks and ISDN systems, High Speed Networks Journal, Telecommunication Systems, and the Photonic Network Communications Journal. He was a Guest Editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE, the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communica17
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4] Hu, L.R. and Rappaport, S.S. Micro-Cellular Communication Systems with Hierarchical Macrocell Overlays: Tra c Performance Models and Analysis. WINLAB Workshop, pages 143{174, 1993. 5] King, P.J.B. Computer and Communication Systems Performance Modeling. Prentice Hall, 1990. 6] Kleinrock, L. Queueing Systems: Volume I { Theory. New York: Wiley, 1976. 7] Lee, W.C.Y. Mobile Cellular Telecommunications Systems. McGraw-Hill, 1995. 8] Lin, Y.-B. and Chlamtac, I. E ective Call Holding Times for a PCS Network. IEEE PIMRC, 1996. 9] Lin, Y.-B. and Chlamtac, I. E ects of Erlang Call Holding Times on PCS Call Completion. IEEE INFOCOM, 1996. 10] Lin, Y.-B., Mohan, S., and Noerpel, A. Channel Assignment Strategies for Hand-o and Initial Access for a PCS Network. IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, 1(3):47{56, 1994. 11] Lin, Y.-B., Mohan, S., and Noerpel, A. Queueing Priority Channel Assignment Strategies for Hando and Initial Access for a PCS Network. IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 43(3):704{712, 1994. 12] Lin, Y.-B., Noerpel, A., and Harasty, D. The Sub-rating Channel Assignment Strategy for PCS Hand-o s. IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 45(1), February 1996. 13] Medhi, J. Stochastic Models in Queueing Theory. Academic Press, 1991.
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tions, IEEE Transactions on Computers, and other journals. He served as the General Chair of leading ACM and IEEE conferences and workshops, including ACM Sigcomm, ACM/IEEE Mobicom and IEEE CCW, and acts as the ACM/IEEE Mobicom Steering Committee Chair. Dr. Chlamtac is the Chairman of ACM SigMobile, the Special Interest Group on Mobile Computing and Networking. Dr. Chlamtac is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ACM, winner of the Society of Computer Simulation award, and ACM best paper award. In the past he was an IEEE, Northern Telecom, and BNR Distinguished Lecturer, a plenary and keynote speaker at leading conferences. He was a Fulbright Scholar and is an Honorary Member of the Board of Trustees at the Technical University of Budapest.