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Apostolis
K. Salkintzis (a.k.salkintzis@ieee.org)
received his Diploma in 1991 and his Ph.D. degree in 1997, both from the Department
of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Democritus
University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece. From 1992 to 1997, he was a Research
Engineer at the Democritus University. In 1999 he was a Sessional Lecturer at
the Department of Electrical & Computer
Engineering, The University of British Columbia,
Canada, and from Oct. 1998 to Dec. 1999 he was also Post Doctoral Fellow in the
same department. During 1999, he was a Visiting Fellow of Advanced
Systems Institute of British Columbia, Canada, and during 2000, he was with
the Institute of Space Applications and Remote
Sensing (ISARS) of the National Observatory of
Athens, Greece, where he conducted research on digital satellite
communication systems. Since Sept. 1999, he has been with Motorola,
working on the design and standardization of modern telecommunication networks,
such as GPRS and UMTS. He has served as principal guest editor in many special
issues and has published over than 40 papers in IEEE journals and international
conferences. His primary research activities lie in the area of wireless digital
communication networks, and he is particularly interested in mobility
management, IP multimedia over mobile networks, mobile channel modeling,
diversity techniques in multipath fading channels, radio modem design with DSPs,
and multiple access and data link protocols. Currently, he is most active in the
design and standardization of GPRS and UMTS networks and he is an active
participant and contributor in 3GPP standardization body.
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