Title Telephone Telepathy: A Next Generation Service

Dr. Ram Dantu
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of North Texas (UNT), USA

Abstract

“In this talk, we present challenges and issues facing next generation real-time communications. We discuss next generation smart phones that can predict the following:

  1. Who and when somebody is going to call you next
  2. What are the special events in your life
  3. What are you doing now (e.g., are you sitting at the table eating dinner or on the couch and watching TV)
  4. Phones that can predict car accidents, safe driving and call E911 automatically and
  5. Phones that can navigate you to walk in the dark using magnetic maps.

Finally, we discuss results and conclusions based on the research in our lab.”

Biography

Dr. Ram Dantu has 15 years of industrial experience in the networking industry, where he worked for Cisco, Nortel, Alcatel, and Fujitsu and was responsible for advanced technology products from concept to delivery. He is a full professor in the the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas (UNT). During 2011, he was a visiting professor in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in school of engineering. He is the founding director of the Network Security Laboratory (NSL) at UNT, the objective of which is to study the problems and issues related to next-generation networks. He is also the director of center for information and computer security in UNT. He has received several NSF awards in collaboration (lead PI) with Columbia University, Purdue University, University of California at Davis and Texas A&M University.

His research includes mobile applications in health care and transportation sectors. In addition, he has been researching on the prevention of DoS and spam attacks in the VoIP networks. He has co-chaired three workshops on VoIP security. Prior to UNT, he was a technology director at Netrake (acquired by Audio Codes), where he was the architect of the redundancy mechanism for VoIP firewalls. His additional experience includes being a technical director in IPMobile (acquired by Cisco), where he was instrumental in the wireless/IP product concept, architecture, design, and delivery. In addition to more than 150 research papers, he has authored several Requests For Comments (RFCs) related to MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS), SS7 over IP, and routing. Due to his innovative work, Cisco and Alcatel were granted a total of 25 patents, and another 10 are pending.