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Douglas C.
Sicker
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program
Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
+1-303-735-4949
douglas.sicker@colorado.edu
http://spot.colorado.edu/~sicker
EDUCATION
Ph.D.,Telecommunications, 2001, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Ph.D. thesis – “A Multidimensional Analysis of Emerging Signaling
Protocols,” Advisors – Martin Weiss and Richard Thompson
M.S., Telecommunications, 1993, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
M.S. thesis – “Performance Issues of Advance Intelligent Network-based
Local Number Portability,” Advisor – Martin Weiss
B.S., Natural Sciences, 1988, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
WORK
EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, 1/02 – present, Department of Computer Science and
the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program, University of
Colorado at Boulder
Director of Global Architecture, 11/00 – 12/01, Level 3 Communications
Division Chief, 5/98 – 11/00, Network Technology Division, Office of
Engineering and Technology, Federal Communications Commissions (FCC)
(12 months as Senior Technologist in Common Carrier Bureau)
Teaching Fellow, 1/96 – 5/98, Telecommunications, University of
Pittsburgh
Graduate Researcher, (on a Bell Atlantic Scholarship) 1995,
Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh
Faculty Research Scientist, 1993 – 1995, Dept of Surgery, School of
Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Research Coordinator, 1990 – 1993, Dept of Surgery, School of Medicine,
University of Pittsburgh
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
Senior member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Internet Society (ISOC)
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Beta Phi Mu, Honors Society
ADVISORY
POSITIONS
After leaving the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), I served on
two Federal Advisory Committees:
Chair – FCC Network Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC)
Steering Committee (2000–2001)
Member – FCC Technical Advisory Council (TAC) (2000–2001)
Adjunct Fellow – Progress and Freedom Foundation (2003–2006)
Academic Advisor – Institute for Regulatory Law and Economics (IRLE)
(2003-2007)
Academic Advisor – Digital Age Communications Act (DACA) (2004-2005)
Advisory Board – Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications (a
telecommunications law program within the CU Boulder Law School)
(2004-2007)
Advisory Board – Software Clearing House, University of Colorado
(2006-2007)
Invited participant – Aspen Institute – Communications and Society
Program (2004)
PROGRAM
COMMITTEES
Vice Chair, IEEE DySPAN (Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks), (2010)
Co–chair, Technical Program Committee, IEEE CrownCom Workshop, (2008)
Technical Program Committee – IEEE CrownCom Workshop (2007)
Technical Program Committee – IEEE Software Defined Radio Workshop
(2006)
Technical Program Committee – IEEE TAPAS Workshop (2006)
Technical Program Committee – IEEE DYSPAN (2007) (Dynamic Spectrum
Access Networks)
Policy Program Committee – IEEE DYSPAN (2007) (Dynamic Spectrum Access
Networks)
Organizing Committee – IEEE DYSPAN (2007) (Dynamic Spectrum Access
Networks)
Past–Division Chair – ASEE Engineering & Public Policy Division
(2008)
Division Chair – ASEE Engineering & Public Policy Division (2007)
Program Chair – ASEE Engineering & Public Policy Division (2006)
Program Committee – DYSPAN (2005) (Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks)
Program Committee – 31st and 32nd Telecommunications Policy Research
Conference (TPRC) (2003, 2004)
Student Paper Chair – 32nd Telecommunications Policy Research
Conference (TPRC) (2004)
Technical Co–Chair – 6th International Symposium on Advanced Radio
Technology (ISART) (2003)
Reviewer – numerous ACM and IEEE conferences and journals
EDITORIAL
Editorial Board – IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications Journal
(2007 – 2008)
Guest Editor – IEEE Communications, Radio Series (July 2007)
Co-editor – Special Edition, Journal of Telecommunications Policy
(September 2005)
OTHER
COMMITTEES
NSF GENI – co-wrote the white paper on cognitive radio for the National
Science Foundation (2007)
Network Advisory Board – DARPA M/A–Com team radio design (which was the
sole selection radio that emerged out of the DARPA down select
process.) (2006-2007)
Management Board – IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee (SCC) 41 –
Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (2007)
Co–chair – IEEE P1900.A Study Group Compliance of Radio Systems with
Dynmaic Spectrum Access (2006-2007)
Member – IEEE P1900.2 Working Group of Radio Frequency Interference
(2005-2007)
Panel Participant – on 7 NSF CISE panels (2003–2007)
Panel Participant – ASEE National Defense Science and Engineering
Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Program (2007)
CONSULTING
ACTIVITIES (in 2007)
United States House of Representatives (pro bono) – network security
(2007)
United States Department of Justice (pro bono) – electronic voting
(2007)
United States Department of Justice National Institute of Justice (pro
bono) – wireless and spectrum issues (2007)
Australian Government – technical issues of radio frequency management
(2007)
Turkish Government – network technology including network security and
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) (2007)
FairPoint Communications – broadband technology deployment (2007)
UNIVERSITY
ACTIVITIES
Executive Committee – Computer Science (2007)
Computer Committee – Computer Science (2004 – 2007)
Graduate Committee – Computer Science (2003)
Executive Committee – Computer and Communications Security Center (2004
– 2007)
Adjunct Faculty – Center for Science and Technology Policy Research
(2003 – 2007)
Director – ITP Laboratory (2003 – 2007)
Executive Committee – ITP (2004 – 2007)
Technical Curriculum Committee – ITP (2003 – 2005)
AWARDS
IBM Faculty Partnership Award (2005)
Federal Communications Commission Outstanding Service in the Public
Interest Award (2000)
Federal Communications Commission Special Act Awards – two-time
recipient (1999, 2000)
GRANTS
DARPA
Douglas C. Sicker (PI), Tim Brown, Dale Hatfield, Tom Lookabaugh, Phil
Weiser; DARPA XG Phase III contract, $600,000 (9/05–9/08) (my part
$250,000)
Dirk Grunwald (PI) and Douglas C Sicker, WANN (Wireless Adaptable
Network Nodes, $25,0000 (2007) (my part $12,500)
National Science Foundation
Douglas C. Sicker (PI), NSF “DySPAN Conference Travel,” $32,000,
(1/06–9/07)
Grunwald, Sicker, Brown, Mathias, NSF NETS–FIND, “Wireless Wormholes,”
$600,000 (9/06–9/09) (my part $150,000)
Douglas C. Sicker (PI), NSF “Student Grant for DySPAN Conference,”
$20,000, (9/05–9/06)
Dirk Grunwald (PI), Tim Brown, Douglas C. Sicker; NSF CRI “Wireless
Building Blocks,” $600,000 (plus $120,000 matching) (8/05–8/09) (my
part $200,000)
Dirk Grunwald (PI), John Black, Douglas C. Sicker; NSF NETS “Adaptive
Routing with SDR,” $500,000 (6/05–6/08) (my part $168,000)
Tim Brown (PI), Dirk Grunwald, Dale Hatfield, Douglas C. Sicker, Phil
Weiser; NSF ITR “Spectrum Plenty,” $300,000 (11/04–11/07) (my part
$100,000)
IBM Faculty Partnership Award
Douglas C. Sicker (PI), Modeling Security Breaches,
$10,000 (2005)
Cisco Systems
Douglas C. Sicker (PI), Tom Lookabaugh, Scott Savage; Broadband Access
Study, $90,000 (9/02–9/03) (my part $30,000)
Microsoft
Patrick Ryan (PI), John Bennett, Tom Lookabaugh, Douglas C. Sicker,
Phil Weiser; Trusted Computing, $50,000 (12/04–12/05)
Internet2
Douglas C. Sicker (PI); SIP Client development, $6,000
(9/02–9/03)
NET Institute
Douglas C. Sicker (PI); “The Feasibility of a Certification
Process for VoIP Emergency Services,” $15,000 (6/04 – 9/04)
Colorado Institute of Technology (CIT)
Douglas C. Sicker (PI); “Remote Learning Laboratory” $49,600 (2004)
GIFTS (equipment) I have received over $400,000 in equipment
gifts over the last 5 years.
–Agilent - $58,000
–Avaya - $60,000
–Echostar -$24,000
–Finistar - $10,000
–Intel - $94,000
–SIPCOM - $100,000
–StillSecure -$50,000
–SUN - $6,000
–Xlinix - >$15,000
EDUCATIONAL
ACTIVITIES
I am very active in the American Society for Engineering Education
(ASEE). I began participating in ASEE four years ago with the
submission and publication of a paper concerning pedagogical issues for
remote laboratories. Over the years I have published five papers
in the area of engineering education and have gotten more involved with
leadership in the ASEE. I served as a reviewer for EPPD in 2004,
as program chair in 2005 and as division chair in 2006 and 2007.
I have participated in the NSF funded Leadership Education for
Advancement and Promotion (LEAP) program at CU Boulder. I took
the LEAP Leadership Workshop in 2004 and the Course Development
workshop in 2006. I also have attended a number of FTEP and ELP
workshops here at CU.
I have been active in curriculum develop in ITP and in CS. I have
served on the ITP Curriculum Committee and co-developed the IT track
for the CS Curriculum effort in 2007.
Fall 02 Telecommunications Systems
(Co–Taught) -
TLEN–5310
? students
Course ?, Instructor ?
Network Security - TLEN–5831
? students
Course ?, Instructor ?
Spring 03 Network Security -
TLEN–5831
? students
Course ?, Instructor ?
Fall 03 Telecommunications
Systems Lab - TLEN–5460
14 students
Course A-, Instructor B+
Applied Network Security - TLEN–5834
17 students
Course A-, Instructor A-
Spring 04 Telecommunications Systems Lab -
TLEN–5460
13 students
Course B+, Instructor A
Fall 04 Telecommunications
Systems Lab - TLEN–5460
14 students
Course B+, Instructor B+
Applied Network Security - TLEN–5830
70 students
Course A, Instructor A
Spring 05 Telecommunications Systems Lab - TLEN–5460
22 students
Course A, Instructor A
Software Defined Radios (Co–Taught with Brown and Grunwald) - CSCI–7000
15 students
Course B-, Instructor B+
Fall 05 Applied Network Security
- TLEN–5530
23 students
Course B+, Instructor A
Spring 06 Network Security Lab - TLEN–5540
10 students
Course A, Instructor A+
Fall 06 Applied Network Security
- TLEN–5530
36 students
Course 4.6/6.0, Instructor 5.3/6.0
Spring 07 Network Security Lab (Co–Taught) -
TLEN–5540
14 students
Course 5.5/6.0, Instructor 5.8/6.0
Software Defined Radios - TLEN–5832
18 students
Course 5.3/6.0, Instructor 5.8/6.0
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
1. Troy Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “Identifying
Opportunities for Exploiting Cross-Layer Interactions in Adaptive
Wireless Systems,” Journal on Advances in Multimedia, November 2007.
(12 pages)
2. Troy Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker, Dirk Grunwald, “A Statistical
Model for Configuring a Cognitive Radio Network,” IEEE Wireless
Networking, August 2007. (10 pages)
3. Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “Measuring the Network,”
International Journal of Communication (IJoC), University of Southern
California. August 2007. (INVITED PAPER) (14 pages)
4. Douglas C Sicker and Paul Ohm, DRM and the Analog Hole, Journal on
Telecommunications & High Technology Law, pp. 573 – 590, Spring
2007. (INVITED PAPER) (27 pages)
5. Hannes Tschofenig, Rainer Falk, Jon Peterson, Douglas Sicker, James
Polk, Jeff Hodges, “Using SAML to Protect the Session Initiation
Protocol,” IEEE Network, pp. 14-18, September 2006. (5 pages)
6. Jang Hyun Baek, Jae Young Seo, Seog Ku Lim, and Douglas C. Sicker,
“An Enhanced Location–Based Location Update Scheme in Mobile Cellular
Networks,” ETRI Journal, vol.27, no.4, Aug. 2005, pp.456–460. (5 pages)
7. Douglas C. Sicker, Tom Lookabaugh and Patrick S. Ryan, A Model for
Emergency Service of VoIP Through Certification and Labeling, Federal
Communications Law Journal, Vol. 58, pp. 146 – 200, 2005. (54 pages)
8. Sicker and Blumensaadt, “Misunderstanding the Layered Models,”
Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law, pp. 44 – 111,
Fall 2005. (INVITED PAPER) (67 pages)
9. Douglas C. Sicker, “The End of Federalism in Telecommunication
Regulations,” 3 North Western University, Journal of Technology &
Intellectual Property 130, pp.130–160, at
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njtip/v3/n2/3, 2005. (31
pages)
10. Sicker, D.C., Lookabaugh, T., “VoIP Security: Not an Afterthought,”
ACM Queue Magazine, Vol. 2 No 6, pp. 56–64, 2004. (8 pages)
11. T. Lookabaugh and D. C. Sicker, “Selective Encryption for Consumer
Applications,” IEEE Communications Magazine, v. 42, n. 5, pp. 124–129,
May 2004. (6 pages)
12. Sicker, D., and Stuka, M., “An Evaluation of VoIP Traversal of
Firewalls and NATs within an Enterprise Environment,” Information
Systems Frontiers Journal, V. 6, No. 3, pp. 219–228, 2004. (9 pages)
13. Sicker, D. and Mindel, J. “Refinements of a Layered Model for
Telecommunications Policy,” Journal on Telecommunications & High
Technology Law, V1, No. 1, pp. 101–130, 2002. (29 pages)
Books
1. Cameron Cooper, Joshua Mindel and Douglas C. Sicker, The Internet
Interconnection Conundrum, iUniverse Press, 2007. (116 pages)
Book Chapters
1. Lookabaugh, T. Sicker, D.C., “Security and Lock-in,” a chapter in
Economics of Information Security: Advances in Information Security
Series, Vol. 12, pp. 225 – 246, 2004. (22 pages)
2. Troy Weingart and Douglas C. Sicker, “Cognitive and Software Defined
Radio,” Handbook of Computer Networking, Prentice Hall, 2007. (20 pages)
Competitive Conferences
1. Douglas C. Sicker, Paul Ohm and Dirk Grunwald, “Issues Involving
Network Monitoring,” Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2007
(invited paper). (10 pages)
2. Christian Doerr, Douglas C. Sicker, Dirk Grunwald, “Toward a Model
for Characterizing Cognitive Radio Networks,” IEEE GlobeCom 2007. (6
pages)
3. Kevin Bauer, Damon McCoy, Dirk Grunwald, Tadayoshi Kohno, and
Douglas Sicker. Low–Resource Routing Attacks Against Tor. In
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic
Society (WPES 2007). October 29, 2007. (10 pages)
4. Jeff Fifield, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas C. Sicker, “Experiences With a
Platform for Frequency-Agility” IEEE/ACM DySPAN (Dynamic Spectrum
Access Networks) 2007. (6 pages)
5. Sheth, Doerr, Han, Grunwald and Sicker, “MoJo, A distributed
physical layer anomaly detection system for 802.11 wireless LANs,” the
Proceedings of ACM MobiSys 2006, pp. 191 - 204. (14 pages)
6. Safety and Certification for New Radio Technologies,” John Chapin
and Douglas C Sicker, IEEE Communications, pp. 29-31, September
2006. (3 pages)
7. “Examining the wireless commons,” Sicker, Grunwald, Anderson,
Munsinger and Sheth, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference
2006. (20 pages)
8. “Passive Data Link Layer 802.11 Wireless Device Driver
Fingerprinting,” Jason Franklin, Damon McCoy, Parisa Tabriz, Vicentiu
Neagoe, Jamie Van Randwyk, and Douglas Sicker, Proceedings of the 15th
USENIX Security Symposium, pp. 167 – 178, August 2006. (12 pages)
9. Doerr, Weingart, Sicker and Grunwald, “MultiMAC – An Adaptive MAC
Framework for Dynamic Radio Networking,” IEEE/ACM DySPAN (Dynamic
Spectrum Access Networks) 2005, pp. 548 – 555, 2005. (8 pages)
10. Sicker and Marcus, “Regulatory Models and VoIP,” 33rd annual
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference 2005. (20 pages)
11. Sicker, Tschofenig, and Peterson, “Trait–based Authorization
Mechanisms for SIP Based on SAML,” IEEE GlobeCom 2004, VoIP Security
Workshop, December 2004. (6 pages)
12. Rohrer, C. and Sicker, D., “Implications of DOCSIS–QoS on Cable
Broadband Service,” 32nd Telecommunications Policy Research Conference,
2004. (30 pages)
13. Sicker, D.C., Lookabaugh, T., “A Model for E911 VoIP
Certification,” 32nd Telecommunications Policy Research Conference,
2004. (31 pages)
14. Sicker, D., “Privacy and Anonymity Through Role Based
Authorization,” 31st Telecommunications Policy Research Conference,
2003. (14 pages)
15. Shah, Sicker and Hatfield, “Thinking About Openness in the
Telecommunications Context,” 31st Telecommunications Policy Research
Conference, 2003. (20 pages)
Peer Reviewed Conferences
1. Christian Doerr, Douglas Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “What a Cognitive
Radio Network Can Learn from a School of Fish,” Wireless Internet
Conference (WICON), 2007.
2. R. McTasney, D. Grunwald, and D. Sicker, “Low–Latency Multichannel
Wireless Mesh Networks,” IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh
and Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Communications Society, August 2007.
3. Christian Doerr, Douglas Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “Optimizing for
Sparse Training of Cognitive Radio Networks,” First International
Workshop on Cognitive Wireless Networks (CWNets), 2007.
4. Thomas W. Rondeau, Allen B. MacKenzie, Charles W. Bostian, Keith E.
Nolan, Linda Doyle, Douglas C. Sicker, Christian Doerr, Dirk Grunwald,
Gary J. Minden, Joseph B. Evans, “International Collaboration for a
Cognitive Radio Testbed,” Software–Defined Radio Technical Forum (SDR
Conference), 2007.
5. Michael Buettner, Eric Anderson, Gary Yee, Dola Saha, Douglas C
Sicker and Dirk Grunwald}, “A Phased Array Antenna Testbed for
Evaluating Directionality in Wireless Networks,” ACM MobiEval ’07, 2007.
6. Troy Weingart, Gary Yee, Douglas C. Sicker, Dirk Grunwald,
“Implementation of a Reconfiguration Algorithm for Cognitive Radio,”
IEEE CrownCom, 2007.
7. Douglas C. Sicker, “Perceptions Concerning The Inclusion Of Public
Policy Materials In Engineering Curriculum,” American Society for
Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Meeting, 2007.
8. Brad Bernthal, Douglas C. Sicker, Dale Hatfield, Phil Weiser and Tim
Brown, “ITP Trends and Precedents favoring Regulatory Embrace of Smart
Radio Technologies,” IEEE/ACM DySPAN (Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks)
2007.
9. Tim Brown and Douglas C. Sicker, “Can Cognitive Radios Enable
Broadband?,” IEEE/ACM DySPAN (Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks) 2007.
10. Douglas Sicker, Damon McCoy, Dirk Grunwald, “A Mechanism for
Detecting and Responding to Misbehaving Nodes in Wireless Networks,”
SDR Workshop, IEEE SECON, 2007.
11. “Evaluation of Cross–Layer Interactions for Reconfigurable Radio
Platforms” Troy Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, IEEE
Technology and Policy for Accessing Spectrum (TAPAS), August 2006.
12. “A Predictive Model for Cognitive Radio,” Troy Weingart, Douglas C.
Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, IEEE Military Communications (MILCOM),
October 2006.
13. “A Method for Dynamic Configuration of a Cognitive Radio,” Troy
Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, IEEE Networking
Technologies for Software Defined Radio Networks. September 2006.
14. “Multimedia Quality of Service and Net Neutrality on Wireless
Networks,” Douglas Sicker, Dirk Grunwald, Tom Lookabaugh, 9th Annual
International Symposium On Advanced Radio Technologies (ISART), 2006.
15. “Engineering Students and Law Conferences,” Douglas C. Sicker and
Tom Lookabaugh, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Annual Conference, 2006.
16. Giacomoni and Sicker, “Difficulties in Providing Certification and
Assurance for Non–Functional Requirements” IEEE/ACM DySPAN (Dynamic
Spectrum Access Networks), 2005.
17. Sur, A. and Sicker, D.C. “Multi Layer Rules Based Framework for
Vertical Handoff,” IEEE BroadNets, 2005. (Acceptance Rate = 38%)
18. Sicker, Lookabaugh, Santos and Barnes, “Assessing the Effectiveness
of Remote Networking Laboratories,” 35th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in
Education Conference, Indianapolis, IN, October 19–22, 2005.
19. S. McGann and D. Sicker, “An Analysis of Security Threats and Tools
in SIP–Based VoIP Systems,” 2nd Annual VoIP Security Workshop, 2005.
20. Weingart, Sicker, Grunwald and Neufeld, “Adverbs and Adjectives: An
Abstraction for Software Defined Radio,” International Symposium on
Advanced Radio Technology (ISART), 2005.
21. Jang Hyun Baek, Jae Young Seo, and Douglas C. Sicker, “Performance
Analysis and Optimization of an Improved Dynamic Movement–Based
Location Update Scheme in Mobile Cellular Networks,” International
Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), 2005.
22. Jang Hyun Baek, Jae Young Seo, and Douglas C. Sicker, “Optimization
of an Improved Dynamic Movement–Based Location Update Scheme in Mobile
Cellular Networks,” Lecture No