• Mobility Support in Future Internet Architecture
• Wireless Networking at the Routing and MAC layers

Before joining DoCoMo Labs USA  in 2007, I worked in the Metropolitan Wireless Mesh Networking Group with Nokia-Siemens-Networks and in the Mobile IP group with Nokia Research Center. I received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles  in 2000, a MS in EE from University of California, Los Angeles, as well as a MS from Ecole Centrale Paris in 1995. I have been a visiting researcher at Stanford University (1997-2000) in the EES&OR department (now MS&E), a visiting scholar at MIT in the CSAIL department in 2003,  a visiting scholar in the EECS department at University of California, Berkeley in 2004, and a visiting professor at Keio University in 2006-07 in the WIDE project.

• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, for IEEE Transactions on Communications, for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, for IEEE Networks journal, for Wireless Networks journal, for Networld+Interop Engineers Conference 2001, for ASWN 2001, the IEEE workshop on Application Services in Wireless Networks ASWN 2001, for IEEE ICC 2003, for GLOBECOM 2004, for GLOBECOM Symposium on Wireless Networks 2007, for the 1st EuroNGI Conference on Next Generation Internet Networks 2005, for ACM Mobicom 2004, 2005, and for the (Wiley) Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.
• Member of the Technical Program Committee for: IEEE INFOCOM 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, for WMASH 2003, the First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots, for GLOBECOM Symposium on Wireless Communications, 2003, Symposium on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks 2006 and 2007, for IEEE ASWN 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, for IEEE SECON 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, for IEEE Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc Sensor Systems MASS 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, for IEEE 62nd Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Fall 2005, for SPASWIN workshop on Spatial Stochastic Modeling of Wireless Networks 2005 and 2006, for the IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing 2005, Hong-Kong, P.R. China, for the 2nd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2005 (ISWCS2005), Siena, Italy, for the RAWNET workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks 2006, for the IEEE ICDCS International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems 2006, for ACM MobiHoc 2006, for IEEE ICC 2007 and 2008, for IFIP Networking Conference 2006 and 2007, for AINTEC Asian Internet Engineering Conference 2007, for the 2nd Broadband Wireless Access Workshop 2008.
• Co-Chair for the Tutorial Program for IEEE SECON 2004 and 2005.
• Co-Chair for Demos and Posters, IEEE SECON 2006.
• Panelist for the National Science Foundation (NSF), 2005, 2006 and 2007.
• TPC Chair, Mobile and Wireless Track, IFIP Networking 2006, Coimbra, Portugal.
• Publication Chair, IEEE MASS 2006, Vancouver, Canada.
• Patronage and Sponsorship Chair, IEEE SECON 2007.
• Workshop Chair, for the 19th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communication, PIMRC'08.
• Area Editor, Elsevier Computer Network (COMNET), since 2005.

Here is a recent list of publications:

1. 1. Cedric Westphal, Karim Seada, Charles Perkins, Ryuji Wakikawa, A Study of the Route Discovery Process in Reactive MANETs, currently under review.
   2. Cedric Westphal, Yali Wang, Charles Perkins, Ryuji Wakikawa, Reactive Routing in Ad Hoc Networks With No Flooding, currently under review.
   3. Liaoruo Wang, Benyuan Liu, Dennis Goeckel, Don Towsley, Cedric Westphal, Connectivity in Cooperative Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, currently under review.
   4. Cedric Westphal, Little Tom Thumb Went Straight Home, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, May 2007.
   5. Andres Arjona, Cedric Westphal, Sami Takala, Empirical Analysis of the Single-Radio Mesh Architecture: Performance, Limitations and Challenges, in Proc. of ACM IWCMC'07.
   6. Liaoruo Wang, Benyuan Liu, Dennis Goeckel, Don Towsley, Cedric Westphal, Connectivity with Noncoherent Cooperation in Extended Wireless Networks, in 1^st workshop of the ITA, September, 2007.
   7. Cedric Westphal, Properties of Opportunistic and Collaborative Ad Hoc Networks, in Proc. of GLOBECOM 2007, Washington D.C., November 2007.
   8. Karim Seada, Cedric Westphal, Charles Perkins, Analyzing Path Accumulation for Route Discovery in Ad Hoc Networks, in Proc. of IEEE WCNC'07, Hong-Kong, March 2007.
   9. Cedric Westphal, Performance of Routing in Sensor Networks with a Mobile Access Point, in Proc. of IEEE WCNC'07, Hong-Kong, March 2007.
   10. Cedric Westphal, Opportunistic Routing in Dynamic Ad Hoc Networks: the OPRAH protocol, in Proc. of IEEE MASS'06.
   11. Cedric Westphal, On the Information Lifetime and the Localization Cost in Sensor Networks with Random Topologies, in Proc. IEEE SECON 2006, September 2006.
   12. Cedric Westphal, Randomized Channel Selection in Multichannel Access Point Networks, in Proc. of IEEE VTC Fall 2006, Montreal, Canada.
   13. Joy Ghosh, Cedric Westphal, Hung Ngo, Chunming Qiao, Bridging Intermittently Connected Mobile Ad hoc Networks (ICMAN) with Sociological Orbits - Poster at IEEE Infocom 2006, Barcelona.
   14. Cedric Westphal, Layered IP Header Compression Architecture for Multi-Hop Compression, in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.
   15. Cedric Westphal, On Maximizing the Lifetime of Distributed Information in Ad Hoc Networks with Individual Constraints, in the Sixth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, MOBIHOC 2005, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
   16. Claude Richard, Charles Perkins, Cedric Westphal, Defining an Optimal Active Route Time-Out for the AODV Routing Protocol, poster submission, IEEE SECON 2005, Santa Clara, California.
   17. Cedric Westphal, Quantized Scheduling for Radio Networks with Heterogenous Fading Characteristics, in Proc. of the IEEE Wireless Mobility Conference (WiMOB) 2005, Montreal, Quebec.
   18. Cedric Westphal, On Maximizing the Lifetime of Distributed Information in Ad Hoc Networks with Individual Constraints: The Random Topology Case, in the first workshop on Spatial Stochastic Modeling of Wireless Networks (SPASWIN) 2005, Riva del Garda, Italy
   19. Cedric Westphal, Rajeev Koodli, Stateless Header Compression, in Proc. of IEEE ICC 2005, Seoul, Korea.
   20. Cedric Westphal, Monitoring Proportional Fairness in cdma2000 HDR Networks, in Proc. of IEEE Globecom 2004, Dallas, TX.
   21. Cedric Westphal, Improvements on Header Compression, in Proc. of the IEEE Globecom 2003, San Francisco, CA.
   22. Cedric Westphal, Rajeev Koodli, IP Header Compression: a study of context establishment, WCNC2003, New-Orleans, LA.
   23. Cedric Westphal, Frequency-based user dependent header compression, Globecom 2002, Taiwan.