Aura Ganz Professor 309F Knowles Engineering Bldg University of Massachusetts 151 Holdsworth Way Amherst MA 01003-9284 Telephone: (413) 545-0574 email: ganz@ecs.umass.edu

B.Sc, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, 1980; M.Sc., 1983; Ph.D., 1987.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Multimedia Networks, Wireless Networks, Network Security, Telemedicine.

AFFILIATED RESEARCH LABORATORY: Multimedia Networks Laboratory

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• A. Ganz, R. Istepanian, O. Tonguz, "Guest Editorial-Advanced Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications", Journal on Mobile Multimedia, Vol. 1, No. 4, 2006.
• Niranjan, S. Pandey, A. Ganz, "Design and Evaluation of Multi-channel Wireless Networks", to appear in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) (Kluwer and ACM).
• A. Deopura, A. Ganz, "Provisioning Link Layer Proportional Service Differentiation in Wireless Networks with Smart Antennas", to appear in Wireless Networks Journal (Kluwer Academic Publishers).
• Y. Chu, A. Ganz, "A Centralized MAC Protocol for QoS Support in UWB-based Wireless Networks", to appear in Wireless Personal Communications Journal (Kluwer Academic Publishers).
• Q. Xue, W. Gong, A. Ganz, "Proportional Service Differentiation in Wireless LANs Using Spacing-based Channel Occupancy Regulation", to appear in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) (Kluwer and ACM).
• Q. Xue, A. Ganz, "On the lifetime of large scale sensor network," to appear in the Journal of Computer Communications (Elsevier Publishers).
• A. H. Aghvami, A. Ganz, R. Sivakumar, H. Zheng, W. Zhu, "Guest editorial - Advanced mobility management and QoS protocols for next-generation wireless internet", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 797 - 801, June 2004.
• Y. Chu, A. Ganz, Mobile Teletrauma System Using 3G Networks"A Mobile Teletrauma System using 3G Networks" "A Mobile Teletrauma System Using 3G Networks", IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 8., No. 2, pp. 456 - 462, December 2004.

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS: IEEE (Senior member)

HONORS & AWARDS: Best paper award, FIE Conference 1999. Israeli Communication Ministry Award, 1985. Landau's Award, 1982.

INSTITUTIONAL & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: · Invited speaker in International Communications for Management Group, on Wireless Enterprise Solutions, Toronto, Canada September 2000. Invited speaker at the Motorola Wireless Futures Forum, November 1999. Keynote Speaker for an NSF sponsored workshop in mobile computing, June 1999. Invited speaker at the Personal and Local Wireless Network Solutions conference, August 1999. General Co-Chair, Massachusetts Telecommunication Conference, November 1997. Guest Editor for Mobile Networks Special Issue on Wireless Local Area Networks (1997). Associate Editor for Computer Networks and ISDN Systems Journal.

 

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