Carl E. Fossa, Jr.

Associated Student (2001-2002)
Integrated Research and Education in Advanced Networking
Virginia Tech

Biographical Sketch

Carl E. Fossa Jr. is currently serving as a Major in the United States Army Signal Corps. After receiving the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in May 2002, he was assigned to be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. Major Fossa received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the United States Military Academy in 1987 and an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1998. His current research interests include quality of service, integrating voice and data networks, mobile communications networks, and network simulation

His Ph.D. dissertation was on "Dynamic Code Sharing Algorithms for IP Quality of Service in Wideband CDMA 3G Wireless Networks" (available online).

Selected Publications

Carl E. Fossa, Jr. and Nathaniel J. Davis IV, "Dynamic Code Assignment Improves Channel Utilization for Bursty Traffic in 3G Wireless," IEEE International Communications Conference, 2002, pp. 3061-3065.

Carl E. Fossa, Jr. and Nathaniel J. Davis IV, "A Dynamic Code Assignment Algorithm for Quality of Service in 3G Wireless Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2002.

Carl E. Fossa, Jr. and Nathaniel J. Davis IV, "3G Wireless Standards Offer Solution to Mobile Services in the Warfighter Information Network," IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 403-407.

Carl E. Fossa, Jr. and Nathaniel J. Davis IV, "Modeling Dynamic Code Assignment Algorithms for 3G Wireless Systems," OPNETWORK 2001.

S. R. Pratt, R. A. Raines, C. E. Fossa, and M. A. Temple, "An Operational and Performance Overview of the Iridium Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite System, IEEE Communications Surveys, 2nd Quarter 1999, pp. 1-15.

Carl E. Fossa, Richard A. Raines, Gregg H. Gunsch, and Michael A. Temple, "A Performance Analysis of the IRIDIUM Low Earth Orbit Satellite System with a Degraded Satellite Constellation," Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Vol. 2 No. 4, October 1998, pp. 54-61.

Carl E. Fossa, Richard A. Raines, Gregg H. Gunsch, and Michael A. Temple, "An Overview of the IRIDIUM Low Earth Orbit Satellite System," National Aerospace Engineering Conference (NAECON), 1998, pp. 152-159.

Contact Information

Last updated: August 29, 2006
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