Expert Witness

Technical Expertise

Wireless Telecommunications, Wide Area Networks (WAN)

• Cellular technologies, mobile broadband
• Radio Access Network (RAN) and Core Network
• Telecom architecture, network system architectures
• 3GPP and 3GPP2 families of standards (3G/4G/LTE/5G)
• Self-Organizing Network, Self-Optimizing Network (SON)
• Inter-technolgy handover and roaming
• AAA, RADIUS, DIAMETER
• Small Cells, Femtocell
• WiMAX (802.15)

Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Local Area Networks (LAN, VLAN, WLAN)

• IEEE 802 family of standards
• Wi-Fi (802.11, WLAN)
  • Mesh Wi-Fi, infrastructure Wi-Fi, community Wi-Fi
  • Hotspot 2.0 / Passpoint
• Ethernet (802.3)
• Virtual LAN (802.1, VLAN)
• WPAN (802.16)
• Plastic Optical Fiber (POF), optical networking

Internet Technologies

• Internet architecture, Internet standards and protocols
• TCP/IP, UDP, RTP, DHCP, DNS, ARP, GRE, HTTP, etc.
• IPsec, IKEv2, L2/L3 tunneling, NAT/NAPT (firewall), VPN
• Quality of Service (QoS), Fair Scheduling, Fair Queueing
• Network switches and routers

Internet-of-Things (IoT)

• Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communiations
• LoRa, LoRaWAN, LTE Cat-M, NB-IoT

Cloud Computing and Web Services

• Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
• REST/JSON API design & implementation
• SAML, SAMLv2 federation; oAuth, oAuth 2.0 authentication
• HTML, CSS, web design & development, HTTP, web hosting
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Big Data, Avro, Parquet

Network Management, Device Management

• Broadband Forum TR-69 and TR-181 family of standards
• IETF SNMP standards

Software and Coding

• Software architecture
• Embedded software, firmware
• Object-Oriented Design, Object-Oriented Programming
• Design Patterns
• Coding, Scripting, Programming Languages
• Go (golang), C, C++, Perl, LabVIEW, BASIC, Pascal
• Unix shell scripting languages, JavaScript
• CGI Programming

Computer Systems, Computer Technologies

• Operating systems, various Unix/Linux variants
• Real-Time operating systems (RTOS)
• Embedded systems
• Interconnection networks and switching fabrics
• Parallel computers
• Magnetic recording

Professional Profile

• 25+ years of professional experience in networking & communications
• Eleven (11) patents in the areas of network security, network management, network selection and device provisioning, network/system architecture, mobility management, access control, service activation, network planning/configuration, and authentication protocol
• Leadership in professional organizations: Co-Chair of the IEEE Future Networks AI/ML Working Group, Chair of the IEEE Philadelphia Section, was Vice Chair of Philadelphia Consultants Network
• Employment history includes being an Executive Director in Comcast, a Consulting Engineer in Airvana, Inc., a Senior Software Engineer in Lucent Technologies
• Education and qualification include: Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCS), Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE), Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering (BSCoE) from Washington University in Saint Louis; Patent Agent registered with the USPTO
• Peer-reviewed publications in networking and telecommunications, with subtopics including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Standardization, System Optimization, Security & Privacy, Optical Networking, Parallel Computing, Switching Fabric, Fair Scheduling, Magnetic Recording
• Public talks/presentations in networking and telecommunications, with subtopics including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), 5G/6G Standards, Wi-Fi Standards, Femtocell & Small Cells, System Optimization, Security & Privacy, Quantum Information Technology, Web Technology

Curriculum Vitae

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