Dr. Ian Akylidiz of Georgia Institute of Technology

SoftAir is a new wireless software-defined architecture with network function virtualization(NFV) solutions for 5G cellular systems.The concept of SDN hasbeen proposed to efficiently create centralized network abstraction with the provisioning of programmability over the entire network. Moreover, the complementary conceptof NFV has been further proposed to effectively separate the abstraction of functionalities from the hardware, such as decoupling the data forwarding plane from the control plane.These two concepts bring the SoftAir architecture that provides cellular networks with the needed flexibility to evolve and adapt according to the ever-changing network context.

Biography:

I. F. AKYILDIZ is the Ken Byers Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, Georgia Instituteof Technology, Directorof the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory and Chair of the Telecommunications Group. Heisthe Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal since 2000, the founding Editor-in-Chiefs of the AdHoc Networks Journal (2003), PhysicalCommunication (PHYCOM) Journal (2008) and Nano Communication Networks (NANOCOMNET) Journal (2010) all published by Elsevier. Dr. Akyildiz is an IEEE FELLOW (1996) and an ACM FELLOW (1997).Hereceived numerous awards from IEEE and ACM. Due to Google scholar, his papers received over 81+K citations and his h-index is 97 as of August 2016.His current research interests are in Nano-Scale Communications, 5G Cellular Systems, Software Defined Networking and Wireless Sensor Networks in Challenged Environments.

Dr. Ian Akylidiz of Georgia Institute of Technology

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