Ian F. Akyildiz

Ian F. Akyildiz ( born April 11, 1954 in Istanbul) is a Turkish scientist and engineer.

Akyildiz, whose father had a construction company (both parents died relatively early), went to Austria to school and studied computer science at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg with a diploma in 1981 and his doctorate in 1984 ( performance analysis of multiprocessor systems with process communication). He is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of Broadband Wireless Networking ( BWN ) Laboratory.

He was a visiting professor in Chile, Paris ( University of Paris VI and Ecole nationale Superieure des telecommunications ) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, ​​where he founded the N3Cat ( Nano Networking Center in Catalunya), and in La Palma. He also has an honorary professorship in Tampere in Finland, where he founded the Nano Communications Center (NCC ).

Akyildiz is well known for research on wireless sensor networks.

In 2011 he received the W. Wallace McDowell Award. He is IEEE Fellow (1996) and Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2011 he received the Turkish TUBITAK - price.

Writings

  • X. Wang: Wireless Mesh Networks, Wiley 2009
  • With MC Vuran Wireless Sensor Networks, Wiley 2010
  • As editor: Networking 2007: ad hoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet, Proceedings 6th International IFIP - TC6 Networking Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 14th - 18th May 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4479, Springer Verlag 2007
  • Gunter Bolch Analytic solution techniques for queuing network models of computer systems, work reports of the Institute of Mathematical Machines and Data Processing, computer science, Erlangen, Volume 14, No. 4, 1981
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