Professional Service Activities
Offices and memberships:
International Advisory Board Member, Erasmus Mundus Master in Cloud Application Development (EM CLOUDev) Partnership, University of Oviedo, Cork Institute of Technology, Plymouth University, Portucalense university Infante D. Henrique, and University of Patras.
Member of the Computing Research Association Committee on Education (CRA-E). Invited to participate in this prestigious committee to study how undergraduate education can better support computationally-oriented research. The committee consists of only 11 member of national reputation on computer science education. The term of service is one year beginning October 2011.
Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC).
Member of the IEEE Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC).
Member of the IEEE Communications System Integration and Modeling (CSIM) Technical Committee.
Elected Secretary of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) (http://www.comsoc.org/~tccc/). Two-year term (December 2001 to 2003). The Committee sponsors papers, discussions, and standards on all aspects of computer-communication systems in the USA and throughout the world. It also cooperates with other IEEE societies and sponsors conferences and workshops in many areas of interest to all its members.
Editorial boards:
International Journal of Distributed Sensors, Hindawi, since June 2010
Computer Communications, Elsevier Science (http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/comcom), Area Editor since January 2009.
Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier Science (www.elsevier.com/locate/jnca) since April 2008.
Revista Colombiana de Computación (Colombia’s Magazine of Computer Science) (http://www.unab.edu.co/editorialunab/revistas/rcc/editorial.htm) since October 2004.
Computer Communications, Elsevier Science (http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/comcom) since July 2001.
Editorship:
Guest editor, IEEE Latin America Transactions, Special Issue on IEEE Latincom 2010.
Lead guest editor, Computer Communications, Elsevier Science (http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/comcom) Special Issue “Advanced Location-Based Services”. Publication Spring 2008.
Conference chair:
Workshop Co-Chair, 2013 IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Madrid, Spain.
Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE LatinCom 2010, Bogota, Colombia, September 2010
Workshop Chair, 8th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, Ad Hoc Now 2009.
Exhibit and Sponsorship Co-Chair, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMOB), New York, June 2007.
Publicity Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 2007.
Local arrangements Chair, IEEE LCN 2006, Tampa, FL, November 2006.
Local arrangements Chair, 8th IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems and Engineering, Tampa, FL, March 2004.
Chair, Transport Layer Protocols over Wireless Networks Symposium, 58th IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTC 2003) Conference, Orlando, FL, October 4-9, 2003.
Conference session chair:
IEEE Globecom 2008, chair “Coverage and Topology Control” session, December 2008.
First International Conference on Integrated Internet Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (InterSense 2006), Nice, France, May 2006. Chair of the “Energy Efficiency” session.
IEEE Globecom 2001, Quality of Service in Computer Networks Track. Session Chair in “QoS in Packet Switching and Packet Scheduling” and “QoS in ATM Networks” sessions.
International Organizing Committee of the PASI Institute in Bolivia “Internship on Rapid System Prototyping Technologies with Focus on Digital Signal Processing, Artificial Neural Networks, Communications, Instrumentation and Control”, Cochabamba, Bolivia, June 19, 2004.
IEEE ICC 2002, Session Chair in “High Speed Networks Symposium.” Session Chair in “Traffic Engineering 1” and “Traffic Engineering 2” sessions.
IEEE Globecom 2001, Quality of Service in Computer Networks Track. Session Chair in “QoS in Packet Switching and Packet Scheduling” and “QoS in ATM Networks” sessions.
Book reviewer:
Reviewed three chapters of the book “Computer Networking: A Top-down Approach Featuring the Internet” by James Kurose and Keith Ross, Addison-Wiley, January 2004.
Reviewed four chapters of the book “Computer Networking: A Top-down Approach Featuring the Internet” by James Kurose and Keith Ross, Addison-Wiley, November 2003.
Reviewed chapter “TCP/IP Performance over Satellite Networks” of the book “High Performance TCP/IP Networking” by Mahbub Hassan and Raj Jain, Prentice Hall, January 2003.
Conference program committees:
Third International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (PECCS) 2013, Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE Latincom 2012, Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE Globecom 2012, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Technical Program Committee member.
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) 2012, Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE ICC 2012, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE Latincom 2011, Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE Globecom 2011, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE ICC 2011, Wireless Networking Symposium, Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE ICC 2010, Wireless and Mobile Networking Symposium, Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE Globecom 2010, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications 2009 (LATINCOM), member of the Technical Program Committee.
International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WINSYS) 2009, member of the international program committee.
IEEE ICC 2009, Wireless Networking Symposium, Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE Globecom 2008, Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium, Technical Program Committee member.
First ACM International Workshop on Integrated Heterogeneous Sensor Networks (HeterSenet) 2008, Technical Program Committee member.
Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks 2008 (LOCAN), Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE ICC 2008, Wireless Networking Symposium, Technical Program Committee member.
3rd International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN) 2007, Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE Globecom 2007, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE 3rd. International Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks (LOCAN) 2007, Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems’ 2007 First International Workshop on Localized Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks. Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE Broadnets 2007. Technical Program Committee member of the Optical Networking Symposium.
IEEE Conference on Wireless Rural and Emergency Communications 2007. Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE LCN 2007. Technical Program Committee member.
International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)’s 1st Workshop on Networking Technology for Robotics and Applications (NeTRA), Hawaii, August 2007. Member of the Technical Program Committee.
IFIP Networking 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, May 14-17, 2007. Member of the Technical Program Committee.
IEEE ICC 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2007. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Communications QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling Symposium.
IEEE LCN 2006. Technical Program Committee member.
2nd International Workshop on Localized Communications and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks (LOCAN 2006), Vancouver, Canada, October 2006. Member of the Technical Program Committee.
2nd International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2006), Hong Kong, China, December 2006. Member of the Technical Program Committee.
11th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Track on Intelligent Sensors and Sensor Networks, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2006. Member of the Technical Program Committee.
IEEE Globecom 2006, San Francisco, November 2006. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Control and Management of High Performance Networks Symposium.
CREATE-NET Pervasive Health Conference (http://www.pervasivehealth.org/) 2006, Innsbruck Austria, November 2006. Member of the technical program committee.
InterSense 2006, First International Conference on Integrated Internet Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Nice, France, May 2006. Member of the Technical Program Committee.
IEEE ICC 2006, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Communications QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling Symposium.
1st. WirelessCom Conference, Maui, Hawaii, June 2005. Member of the Technical Program Committee.
IEEE LCN 2005. Technical Program Committee member.
IEEE ICC 2005. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Optical Networking Symposium.
IEEE ICC 2005. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Communications QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling Symposium.
17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS 2004). Member of the International Program Committee (IPC).
IEEE ICC2004. Member of the Technical Program Committee of the High-Speed Networks and Wireless Networking Symposia.
16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS 2003) (http://www.isca-hq.org/PDCS-2003-call.htm). Member of the International Program Committee (IPC).
58th IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTC 2003) Conference. Member of the Technical Program Committee.
IEEE Globecom 2003. Member of the Optical Networking Symposium’s Technical Program Committee.
IEEE ICC 2003. Member of the Optical Networking Symposium’s Technical Program Committee.
IEEE ICC 2002. Member of High Speed Networks Symposium’s Technical Program Committee.
IEEE Globecom 2002. Member of the Optical Networking Symposium’s Technical Program Committee.
15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS 2002) (http://www.isca-hq.org/PDCS-2002-call.htm). Member of the International Program Committee (IPC).
Journal paper reviewer: IEEE transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Sensors Journal, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Computer Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, Wiley (http://www.interscience.wiley.com), Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Metro Optical Networks, International Journal of Network Management.
Conference paper reviewer: IEEE LCN 2006, InterSense 2006, Networking 2006, ISCC 2005, IEEE Globecom 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2004, IEEE ICC 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems PDCS 2002, 2003 and 2004, 2003 Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2003).