Handbook of Mobile Systems Applications and Services

About the Editors:Dr. Anup Kumar completed his PhD from NCSU and is currently a professor of CECS Department at the University of Louisville and the director of Mobile Information Network and Distributed Systems (MINDS) Lab. His research interests include wireless and mobile systems, routing in adhoc and sensor networks, distributed algorithm implementation, QoS-based Web services, seamless mobile computing environment, and wireless content delivery over the Internet. He has been PI and Co-PI of several federal grants funded by National Science Foundation, Department of Treasury, Kentucky Science Foundation, Department of Hometown Security, etc. He is the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. He is also the associate editor of the Internal Journal of Web Services Research and International Society of Computers and their Application Journal. He was a member of IEEE Distinguished Visitor Program (2006-2008). In GLOBECOM-2010, he had organized the Cloud Computing Forum and has given tutorials on Cloud Computing at CyberC-2010, ICCNT-2010, and SCC-2009. He is currently serving on the organizing committees of many international conferences. He was the Chair of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Simulation (TCSIM) (2004-2007). He has published and presented over 175 papers. Some of his papers have appeared in ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, several IEEE Transactions, Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, etc. He was the associate editor of the International Journal of Engineering Design and Automation (1995-1998). He has served on many conference programs and organizing committees such as CyberC-2009, MASS-2008, SCC-2008, ICWS-2008, IEEE ISCC 2007, IEEE ICSW-2006, IEEE MASS-2005, IEEE SCC-2005, IEEE ICWS-2005, CIT-2005, IEEE MASCOTS, and ADCOM '97