Chris. G. Guy
School of Systems Engineering
University of Reading
Whiteknights
Reading
RG6 6AY
UK
Phone: +44 118 378 8757
Email: c.g.guy@rdg.ac.uk

DVP Term Expires December 2012

Chris Guy is head of the School of Systems Engineering at the University of Reading UK. After graduating with first class Honours in Engineering Science from the University of Durham, UK, he worked in industry for 3 years before returning to academic life. He was a lecturer at University College London for 9 years, before moving to the University of Reading in 1989. His research field started out as fault tolerant computing but gradually moved into networking in general and specifically, Quality of Service in wireless networks. He is the author of 2 books, 8 chapters in edited books and about 60 research papers. He has presented training courses to industry, on topics related to computer networking, in the UK, in Europe and in Singapore. He is a member of the IEEE balloting pool for 802 standards. He is an experienced public speaker.

Quality of Service in Wireless Networks
This talk will cover the issues around the need for QoS – for voice or video links, for example. It will describe the new IEEE 802.11e (WMM) standard and some other methods which are drawn from the research literature.

The future of the Internet
This talk will cover where the internet and the world-wide-web go from here. It will outline how the internet currently operates (on a best-effort basis) and move on to the need to offer QoS and how that can be done. The talk will include the effects of differential tarrifing for higher quality services and the effect this might have on the so-called digital divide.