JANISE McNAIR
Assistant Professor

 

Education:

PhD, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000
MS, EE, University of Texas at Austin, 1993
BSEE, University of Texas at Austin, 1991

Contact Information:

Email: mcnair@ece.ufl.edu
Phone: 352-392-2629
Office: 457 New Engineering Building
Homepage: www.wam.ece.ufl.edu

Program Affiliation:

Area:  Computer Engineering
Lab:   Wireless Information Networking Group

Fields of Interest:

• Computer networks
• Wireless and mobile networking
• Sensor networks
• Mobility and handoff management
• Security and authentication
• Medium access control

Employment:

2000 - Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida

Refereed Journals in the Last 3 Years:

2008
J. D. Lee, K. Tripathi, H. A. Latchman and J. McNair, "Population-based Adaptive Tuning of Constant Contention Window in Powerline MAC," International Journal of Power and Energy Systems, vol 28, issue 2, 2008.

2007
Y.-H. Han, H. Jang, B. Park, J. McNair, and J.H. Choi, "A Cross-layering Design for IPv6 Fast Handover Support in the IEEE 802.16e Wireless MAN," IEEE Network Magazine, vol 21, no 6 pp. 54-62, Nov-Dec 2007.

E. Ekici, S. Vural, J. McNair, and D. Al-Abri, "Secure Probabilistic Location Verification in Randomly Deployed Wireless Sensor Networks," Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, vol 6, no 2, pp. 195-209, April 2007.

2006
F. Zhu and J. McNair, “Multi-network Service Enhancements for Vertical Handoff Decision Algorithms,” EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking, Article ID25861, 13 pages, 2006

Contracts and Grants:

• Department of Defense, "Cognitive Networking: A Novel Approach to Wireless Network Management"
• Small-Tree Communications, Inc., "Tactical Bandwidth Booster for Seamless Communications in Hybrid Wireless Networks"
• National Science Foundation, "Distributed Inter-System Authentication for Multi-network Environments"