Satellite Networking: Principles and Protocols, 2nd Edition

About the Author

Prof. Zhili Sun (Chair of Communication Networking) is with the Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR), University of Surrey. He received a BSc in Mathematics from Nanjing University in 1982 and a PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University in 1991. He was a Research and Teaching Assistant in Southeast University in China from 1982 to 1985. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Queen Mary University of London from 1989 to 1993. He joined the University of Surrey in 1993. He was principal investigator and technical co-ordinator in many European projects, including the ESPRIT BISANTE project on the evaluation of broadband traffic over satellite using a simulation approach, the VIP-TEN project on Quality of Service (QoS) of IP telephony over satellite, the European Union Fifth and Sixth Framework Programme GEOCAST project on IP Multicast over satellites, the ICEBERGS project on IP based Multimedia Conference over Satellite, the SatLife project on IP over DVB-S/RCS, the SATSIX project on IPv6 over satellite, the Euro-NGI project on next generation Internet, the RINGRID project on remote instrumentation over GRID computing, the EC-GIN project on EU-China Grid Internetworking, the HCast project for hybrid secure multicast funded by the United Kingdom Electronics and Physical Sciences Research Council, and LKH over satellite funded by the European ...