Jon M. Peha

Position:

Jon M. Peha

Carnegie Mellon University

Associate Director of the Center for Wireless and Broadband Networking

Full Professor, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.

Also affiliated with the Information Networking Institute, the CenSCIR Center for Sensed Criticial Infrastructure, and the CyLab Center for Security.

CMU official biographical home pages:

Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) home page for Jon Peha

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) home page for Jon Peha

One-Paragraph Professional Biography

Mailing Address:

Carnegie Mellon University

Department of EPP

5000 Forbes Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA

Phones and Email:

(Voice) 412-268-7126

(Email) peha at cmu.edu

CMU Office:

Baker Hall 129b

Research Interests Include:

• Wireless networks. This includes research addressing access protocols, ad hoc or mesh networks, mobility support, and management of spectrum resources. Includes work on spectrum-sharing paradigms, such as unlicensed spectrum, secondary access, spectrum underlays, spectrum markets.
  
• Broadband Integrated-Services Networks (or Multimedia Networks), i.e. networks that support diverse traffic such as voice, video, and computer communications. Video and voice over IP (VOIP). Research includes traffic control mechanisms to provide adequate quality of service, architectures for broadband "last-mile" connections (whether they are over phone, cable TV, or wireless links), traffic modeling , and pricing of network services.
  
• Communications systems for homeland security, public safety, emergency responders (firefighters, paramedics, police, public health workers, etc.).
  
• Regulatory and economic issues of telecommunications, such as the transition from separate phone and cable TV monopolies to competing integrated-services carriers, universal service, and policy issues of the Internet. In the context of both the US and developing countries.
  
• Electronic commerce. This research addresses both technical and policy issues, including protocols for highly secure payment systems, money laundering (PATRIOT), privacy, and taxation.
  
• Information infrastructure for developing countries.
• Technical and policy issues of network security, protecting critical network infrastructure, post-disaster recovery, protocols for secure networks.
  

List of Publications

Some Sample Papers:

• on wireless networks.
• on telecommunications policy.
• on communications systems for emergency responders, homeland security, public safety.
• on traffic control in integrated-services networks.
• on pricing in integrated-services networks.
• on information infrastructure in developing countries.
• on objective advice to policy-makers related to science and technology.
• on electronic commerce.
• on modeling network traffic and chaos theory.
• on network dependability.
• All the papers currently available on this web site.

Some of the current research projects:

• Spectrum Sharing Among Wireless Systems
• Traffic Discimination and Network Neutrality in Broadband Networks
• Wireless Communications Systems for First Responders
• Network-Based Detection and Analysis of Spyware

Examples of Courses Taught:

• Policies of Wireless Systems and the Internet
• Municipal Wifi Systems
• Wireless Communications Systems for Emergency Responders
• Spyware
• Broadband Networks
• Introduction to Telecommunications Networks
• Packet-Switched Networks
• Universal Access to Computers and Computer Networks

Privacy Policy

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