Dr. Scott F. Midkiff Professor Blacksburg Office:  360 Durham Hall Mailing Address:  302 Whittemore Hall (0111) Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 Tel:  (540) 231-5190 Fax:  (540) 231-3362 Email:  midkiff@vt.edu Webpage: http://www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/midkiff.htm

Biography:

Scott F. Midkiff is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), where he has been on the faculty since 1986. From September 2006 until present, Professor Midkiff has been on assignment as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems (IHCS) program in the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division of the Directorate for Engineering (ENG). He has prior industrial experience at Bell Laboratories (1979-1982) and, as a student, at IBM (Summer 1977, Summer 1978). He was a visiting research associate at Carnegie Mellon University (1985-1986). At Virginia Tech, Professor Midkiff has developed and taught courses in network protocols and architectures, wireless networks and mobile systems, network applications, telecommunications, and other areas. He conducts research in wireless networks, mobile systems, and pervasive computing. Professor Midkiff was the principal investigator of an NSF Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) grant in advanced networking. In addition to the NSF’s IGERT program, other current or recent sponsors of Professor Midkiff’s research include the NSF’s Information Technology Research (ITR) and Digital Government programs, the Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Customs Service, Catalyst Communications Technologies, Intel, and Microsoft Research. Professor Midkiff is the Education and Training department editor and a founding member of the editorial board of IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine. Professor Midkiff is a member of the statewide advisory board for the Commonwealth Graduate Engineering Program (CGEP), a multi-university distance learning program, and contributed to the creation of Virginia Tech’s M.S. and Ph.D. programs in Computer Engineering and the Master of Information Technology program. Professor Midkiff received the B.S.E. degree, summa cum laude, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University (1979), the M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (1980), and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Duke University (1985). Professor Midkiff is a Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu honorary societies.

Research Areas:

• Routing and Systems Issues in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
• Medium Access Control-level Security in Sensor Networks
• Network Services for Pervasive Computing
• Pervasive and Mobile Computer for Teaching and Learning
• Network Performance Evaluation
  

Selected Publications:

• M. X. Gong, S. F. Midkiff, and S. Mao, "A Cross-layer Approach to Channel Assignment in Wireless Ad hoc Networks," Springer Mobile Networks and Applications Journal (MONET), vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 43-56, February 2007.
  
• S. Mao, Y. T. Hou, X. Cheng, H. D. Sherali, S. F. Midkiff, and Y.-Q. Zhang, "On Routing for Multiple Description Video over Wireless Ad hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 1063-1074, October 2006.
  
• Y. T. Hou, Y. Shi, J. Pan, A. Efrat, and S. F. Midkiff, "Maximizing Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks through Optimal Single-session Flow Routing," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 1255-1266, September 2006.
  
• U. Lee, S. F. Midkiff, and T. Lin, "Routing in Multi-Channel Wireless Ad-hoc Networks: OSPF-MCDS-MC," Journal of Communications, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 57-68, May 2006.
  
• Y. Shi, Y. T. Hou, H. D. Sherali, and S. F. Midkiff, "Optimal Routing for UWB-based Sensor Networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 857-863, April 2006.
  
• S. Mao, S. Kompella, Y. T. Hou, H. D. Sherali, and S. F. Midkiff, "Routing of Concurrent Video Sessions in Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 317-327, January 2006.
  
• L. A. DaSilva, G. E. Morgan, C. W. Bostian, D. G. Sweeney, S. F. Midkiff, J. H. Reed, C. Thompson, W. G. Newhall, and B. Woerner, "The Resurgence of Push-to-Talk Technologies," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 48-55, January 2006.
  
• Y. T. Hou, Y. Shi, H. D. Sherali, and S. F. Midkiff, "On Energy Provisioning and Relay Node Placement for Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 2579-2590, September 2005.
  
• K. S. Phanse, L. A. DaSilva, and S. F. Midkiff, "Design and Demonstration of Policy-based Management in a Multi-hop Ad Hoc Network Testbed," Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 389-401, May 2005.