Douglas C. Sicker
Associate Professor
Department of Computer
Science and
Interdisciplinary
Telecommunications
Program
Boulder, Colorado 80309,
USA
+1-303-735-4949
http://spot.colorado.edu/~sicker
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
Associate Professor,
8/08 -
present, Department of Computer Science and the Interdisciplinary
Telecommunications Program, University of Colorado at Boulder
Assistant Professor, 1/02 –
8/08, 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) (first 18 months as Senior
Technologist in
Common Carrier Bureau and OET)
Teaching Fellow,
1/96 – 5/98,
Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh
Graduate Researcher,
(on a
Bell Atlantic Fellowship) 1995, Telecommunications, University of
Pittsburgh
Faculty Research
Scientist,
1993 – 1995, Dept of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of
Pittsburgh
Research Coordinator,
1990 –
1993, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of
Pittsburgh
File not up to date.
2010 (pending publication)
1.
Christian
Doerr, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker, Efficient Cross-Layer
Optimization in
Cognitive Radio Networks, in: Zhang, Zheng, and Chen (Eds.), Cognitive
Radio
Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Standards, Taylor &
Francis,
2010. Chapter
2.
Christian
Doerr, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker, Swarm Intelligence in
Heterogeneous
Cognitive Radio Networks, in: Zhang, Zheng, and Chen (Eds.), Cognitive
Radio
Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Standards, Taylor &
Francis, 2010.
Chapter
3.
“Channel
Assignment in Virtual Cut-Through Switching based Wireless Mesh
Networks,” Dola
Saha, Aveek Dutta, Dirk Grunwald and Douglas Sicker, ICDCN 2010,
Kolkata,
India, January 2010
2009
4.
Christian
Doerr, Douglas Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “Local Control of Cognitive
Radio
Networks”, Annals of Telecommunications, 2009. Journal
5.
Dola
Saha, Aveek Dutta, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker, SMACK- SMACK - A
SMart
ACKnowledgment Scheme for Broadcast Messages in Wireless Networks, ACM
SigComm,
2009. Comp_Conference
6.
Dola
Saha, Aveek Dutta, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker, PAMAC: A PHY
Aided MAC
for Wireless Networks”, InfoCom Mini-symposium, 2009.
Comp_Conference
7.
Caleb
Phillips, Suresh Singh, Douglas Sicker, Dirk Grunwald, Techniques for
Simulation of Realistic Infrastructure Wireless Network Traffic, 7th
International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc,
and
Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2009. Comp_Conference
8.
Eric
Anderson, Caleb Phillips, Douglas Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, Modeling
Environmental Effects on Directionality in Wireless Networks, 5th
International
workshop on Wireless Network Measurements (WiNMee), 2009.
Comp_Conference
9.
Eric
Anderson, Gary Yee, Caleb Phillips, Douglas Sicker, Dirk Grunwald, ”The
Impact
of Directional Antenna Models on Simulation Accuracy”, 7th
International
Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless
Networks
(WiOpt), 2009. Comp_Conference
10.
Kevin
Bauer, Damon McCoy, Ben Greenstein, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker, “Physical Layer Attacks on
Unlinkability in Wireless LANs”, Proceedings of the 9th Privacy
Enhancing
Technologies Symposium Seattle, WA (August 2009). [Our data is
available in
CRAWDAD] Comp_Conference
11.
Kevin
Bauer, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker, “The Challenges of Stopping
Illegal
Peer-to-peer File Sharing”, In Proceedings of National Cable &
Telecommunications Association Technical Papers, Washington, DC (April
2009).
Comp_Conference
12.
“The
Directional Attack on Wireless Localization - or - How to Spoof Your
Location
with a Tin Can,” Kevin Bauer, Damon McCoy, Eric Anderson, Markus
Breitenbach,
Greg Grudic, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker, To appear in
Proceedings of the
IEEE Global Communications Conference, Honolulu, HI (December 2009). [Our data is available in CRAWDAD]
Comp_Conference
13.
“The
Arms Race in P2P,” Kevin Bauer, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker, In
TPRC, the
Proceedings of the 37th Research Conference on Communication,
Information, and
Internet Policy Arlington, VA (September 2009). Comp_Conference
14.
“SniffMob:
Inferring Human Contact Patterns using Wireless Devices,” Eric
Anderson, Caleb
Phillips, Harold Gonzales, Kevin Bauer, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas
Sicker, In
Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics of
Planet-scale
Mobility Measurements, Krakow, Poland (June 2009),
15.
“Performing
Traffic Analysis on a Wireless Identifier-free Link Layer,” Kevin
Bauer, Damon
McCoy, Ben Greenstein, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker,
In Proceedings of the 5th Richard Tapia
Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference Portland, OR (April
2009).
2008
16.
R.
McTasney, D. Grunwald and D. Sicker, "Low Latency Wireless Mesh
Networks," Handbook of Wireless Mesh
Networks. London, England:
Springer, (Book Publication date
end of 2008). Chapter
17.
Tim
Brown and Douglas C. Sicker, "Examining the Viability of Cognitive
Radio-based Broadband Wireless Access”, EURASIP Journal on Wireless
Communications
and Networking, Jan. 2008. (12
pages) Journal
18.
Kevin
Bauer, Damon McCoy, Ben Greenstein, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker,
“Using
Wireless Physical Layer Information to Construct Implicit Identifiers”,
HOTPETS
2008. Comp_Conference
19.
Modeling
Directionality in Wireless Networks (Extended Abstract), Eric Anderson,
Caleb
Phillips, Kevin Bauer, Douglas Sicker, and Dirk Grunwald, In
Proceedings of the
ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of
Computer
Systems, Annapolis, MD (June 2008) Comp_Conference
20.
Christian
Doerr, Dirk Grunwald and Douglas Sicker, “Dynamic Control Channel
Assignment in
Cognitive Radio Networks using Swarm Intelligence”, IEEE Global
Communications
Conference (Globecom) 2008. Comp_Conference
21.
Christian
Doerr, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker, “Dynamic Channel Management
in
Presence of Spectrum Heterogeneity”, IEEE Military Communications
Conference
(Milcom) 2008. Comp_Conference
22.
Damon
McCoy, Kevin Bauer, Dirk Grunwald, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Douglas Sicker,
“Shining Light in Dark Places: Understanding the Tor Network”, 8th
Privacy
Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2008) Leuven, Belgium (July
2008).
Comp_Conference
23.
Eric
Anderson, Caleb Phillips, Kevin Bauer, Douglas Sicker, and Dirk
Grunwald, “Modeling
Directionality in Wireless Networks (Extended Abstract)”, ACM
SIGMETRICS
International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer
Systems,
Annapolis, MD (June 2008). Comp_Conference
24.
Christian
Doerr, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker, “Local Independent Control of
Cognitive Radio Networks”, International Conference on Cognitive Radio
Oriented
Wireless Networks and Communication (CROWNCOM) 2008. Comp_Conference
25.
R.
McTasney, D. Grunwald and D. Sicker, "Interference Mitigation In
Wireless
Mesh Networks Through STDMA Wormhole Switching," in Proceedings of the
Third International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless
Networks
and Communications CrownCom 2008. IEEE, 2008. Comp_Conference
26.
Douglas
C. Sicker and Christian Doerr, “The 700 MHz Auction”, Third IEEE
Workshop on
Networking Technologies for Software-Defined Radio Networks (SDR) 2008
(Invited
Paper). Comp_Conference
27.
Christian
Doerr, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas C. Sicker, “Enhancing Cognitive Radio
Algorithms through Efficient, Automated Adaptation Management”, IEEE
Vehicular
Technology Conference (VTC) 2008. Comp_Conference
28.
Christian
Doerr, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas C. Sicker, “Local Independent Control
of
Cognitive Radio Networks”, International Conference on Cognitive Radio
Oriented
Wireless Networks and Communication (CROWNCOM) 2008 (9 pages,
acceptance rate
25%). Comp_Conference
29.
Christian
Doerr, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas C. Sicker, “Algorithms in Cognitive
Radio
Networks”, US/DoD - Finland/TEKES collaborative workshop for Issues in
Wireless
Communication Networking 2008. Comp_Conference
30.
Kevin
Bauer, Damon McCoy, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker, “BitBlender:
Light-Weight Anonymity for BitTorrent”, In Proceedings of the Workshop
on
Applications of Private and Anonymous Communications (AlPACa 2008), In
conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Security and
Privacy for
Communication Networks (SecureComm 2008), Istanbul, Turkey (September
2008)
31.
Caleb
Phillips, Suresh Singh, Douglas Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “Applying
Models of
User Activity for Dynamic Power Management in Wireless Devices, ACM
MobileHCI,
2008.
32.
Caleb
Phillips, Russell Senior, Douglas Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “Robust
Coverage
and Performance Testing for Large Area Networks”, AccessNets, 2008.
33.
Christian
Doerr, Michael Colagrosso, Dirk Grunwald and Douglas Sicker,
“Scalability of
Cognitive Radio Control Algorithms”, IEEE International Symposium on
Wireless
Pervasive Computing (ISWPC) 2008.
34.
Christian
Doerr, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas C. Sicker, “Population Level
Performance
Analysis of Cognitive Radio Networks”, IEEE International Conference on
Computer Communication and Networks 2008.
35.
Christian
Doerr, Michael Colagrosso, Dirk Grunwald and Douglas C. Sicker,
“Scalability of
Cognitive Radio Control Algorithms”, IEEE International Symposium on
Wireless
Pervasive Computing (ISWPC) 2008
(8 pages).
2007
36.
Cameron
Cooper, Joshua Mindel and Douglas C. Sicker, The Internet
Interconnection
Conundrum, iUniverse Press, 2007. (116 pages) Book
37.
Troy
Weingart and Douglas C. Sicker, “Cognitive and Software Defined Radio,”
Handbook of Computer Networking, Prentice Hall, 2007. (20 pages) Chapter
38.
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) Journal
39.
Troy
Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker, Dirk Grunwald, “A Statistical Model for
Configuring a Cognitive Radio Network,” IEEE Wireless Networking,
August 2007.
(8 pages) Journal
40.
Jang-Hyun
Baek, Kyung-Hee Kim And Douglas C. Sicker, “Modeling And Optimization
Of
Zone-Based Registration For Mobile Communication Network”, Asia-Pacific
Journal
of Operational Research, Vol. 24, No. 5 (2007) 667–685.
(18 pages) Journal
41.
Douglas
C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “Measuring the Network,” International
Journal of
Communication (IJoC), University of Southern California. August 2007.
(14
pages) Journal
42.
Douglas
C Sicker and Paul Ohm, “The Analog Hole and The Price of Digital Music:
An Empirical
Study,” Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law, pp.
573 – 580,
Spring 2007. (17 pages) Journal
43.
Christian
Doerr, Douglas C. Sicker, and Dirk Grunwald, “Experiences Implementing
Cognitive Radio Control Algorithms”, IEEE Globecom 2007 Wireless
Communications
2007 (Invited Paper, 6 pages). Comp_Conference
44.
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 (6 pages).
Comp_Conference
45.
Paul
Ohm, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “Issues Involving Network
Monitoring,” Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2007 (invited
paper)
(Acceptance Rate = 25%) (10 pages)
Comp_Conference
46.
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.
(Acceptance Rate = 22%) (10 pages) Comp_Conference
47.
John
Giacomoni, John Bennett, Antonio Carzaniga, Douglas Sicker, Manish
Vachharajani, and Alexander L. Wolf, "Frame Shared Memory: Line-Rate
Networking on Commodity Hardware”, Symposium on Architectures for
Networking
and Communications Systems (ANCS), 2007. (Acceptance Rate = 28%) (10
pages)
Comp_Conference
48.
Jeff
Fifield, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas C. Sicker, “Experiences With a
Platform for
Frequency-Agility” IEEE/ACM DySPAN (Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks)
2007.
(Acceptance Rate = 25%) (6 pages) Comp_Conference
49.
R.
McTasney, D. Grunwald, and D. Sicker, “Multichannel Wormhole Switching
vs.
CSMA/CA for Wireless Mesh Networking,” IEEE WCNC, December 2007.
50.
Christian
Doerr, Douglas Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “What a Cognitive Radio
Network Can
Learn from a School of Fish,” Wireless Internet Conference (WICON),
2007.
(Acceptance Rate = 39%)
51.
Christian
Doerr, Douglas C. Sicker, and Dirk Grunwald, “Toward a Model for
Characterizing
Cognitive Radio Networks,” IEEE GlobeCom 2007, (Acceptance Rate = 40%).
(6
pages)
52.
R.
McTasney, D. Grunwald, and D. Sicker, "Low-Latency Multichannel
Wireless
Mesh Networks," in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on
Computer
Communications and Networks 2007
ICCCN 2007. New York, NY,
USA: IEEE, 2007, pp. 1082-1087.
53.
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.
54.
Christian
Doerr, Douglas Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “Optimizing for Sparse
Training of
Cognitive Radio Networks,” First International Workshop on Cognitive
Wireless
Networks (CWNets), 2007.
55.
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.
56.
Troy
Weingart, Gary Yee, Douglas C. Sicker, and Dirk Grunwald,
“Implementation of a
Reconfiguration Algorithm for Cognitive Radio,” IEEE CrownCom, 2007.
57.
Douglas
C. Sicker, “Perceptions Concerning The Inclusion Of Public Policy
Materials In
Engineering Curriculum,” American Society for Engineering Education
(ASEE)
Annual Meeting, 2007.
58.
Brad
Bernthal, Douglas C. Sicker, Dale Hatfield, Phil Weiser and Tim Brown,
“Trends
and Precedents Favoring Regulatory Embrace of Smart Radio
Technologies,”
IEEE/ACM DySPAN (Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks) 2007.
59.
Tim
Brown and Douglas C. Sicker, “Can Cognitive Radios Enable Broadband?,”
IEEE/ACM
DySPAN (Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks) 2007.
60.
Douglas
Sicker, Damon McCoy, and Dirk Grunwald, “A Mechanism for Detecting and
Responding to Misbehaving Nodes in Wireless Networks,” SDR Workshop,
IEEE
SECON, 2007.
2006
61.
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) Journal
62.
Mindel,
J.L. and Sicker, D.C., “Leveraging The EU Regulatory Framework To
Improve A
Layered Policy Model For US Telecommunications Markets”, Journal of
Telecommunications Policy, 30 (2), p.136-148, Mar 2006.
(13 pages) Journal
63.
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. (Acceptance Rate = 12%) (14 pages) Comp_Conference
64.
Sicker,
Grunwald, Anderson, Munsinger and Sheth, “Examining The Wireless
Commons,” Telecommunications Policy
Research
Conference 2006. (Acceptance Rate = 28%) (20 pages) Comp_Conference
65.
John
Chapin and Douglas C. Sicker, “Safety and Certification for New Radio
Technologies,” IEEE Communications, pp. 29-31, September 2006. (Acceptance Rate = 25%)
66.
Troy
Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “Evaluation of
Cross–Layer
Interactions for Reconfigurable Radio Platforms,” IEEE Technology and
Policy
for Accessing Spectrum (TAPAS), August 2006.
67.
Troy
Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “A Predictive Model for
Cognitive Radio,” IEEE Military Communications (MILCOM), October 2006.
68.
Troy
Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker and Dirk Grunwald, “A Method for Dynamic
Configuration of a Cognitive Radio,” IEEE Networking Technologies for
Software
Defined Radio Networks. September 2006.
69.
Douglas
Sicker, Dirk Grunwald, and Tom Lookabaugh, “Multimedia Quality of
Service and
Net Neutrality on Wireless Networks,” 9th Annual International
Symposium On
Advanced Radio Technologies (ISART), 2006.
70.
Douglas
C. Sicker and Tom Lookabaugh, “Engineering Students and Law
Conferences,”
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference,
2006.
2005
71.
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) Journal
72.
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) Journal
73.
Sicker
and Blumensaadt, “Misunderstanding the Layered Models,” Journal on
Telecommunications & High Technology Law, pp. 44 – 111, Fall 2005.
(67
pages) Journal
74.
Douglas
C. Sicker, “The End of Federalism in Telecommunication Regulations,”
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) Journal
75.
Jason
Franklin, Damon McCoy, Parisa Tabriz, Vicentiu Neagoe, Jamie Van
Randwyk, and
Douglas Sicker, “Passive Data Link Layer 802.11 Wireless Device Driver
Fingerprinting,” Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Security Symposium, pp.
167 –
178, August 2006. (Acceptance Rate = 12%)
(12 pages) Comp_Conference
76.
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.
(Acceptance Rate = 25%) (8 pages) Comp_Conference
77.
Sicker
and Marcus, “Regulatory Models and VoIP,” 33rd Annual
Telecommunications Policy
Research Conference, 2005. (Acceptance Rate = 25%) (20 pages)
Comp_Conference
78.
Giacomoni
and Sicker, “Difficulties in Providing Certification and Assurance for
Non–Functional Requirements” IEEE/ACM DySPAN (Dynamic Spectrum Access
Networks), 2005.
79.
Sur, A.
and Sicker, D.C. “Multi-Layer Rules-Based Framework for Vertical
Handoff,” IEEE
BroadNets, 2005. (Acceptance Rate = 38%)
80.
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.
81.
S.
McGann and D. Sicker, “An Analysis of Security Threats and Tools in
SIP–Based
VoIP Systems,” 2nd Annual VoIP Security Workshop, 2005.
82.
Weingart,
Sicker, Grunwald and Neufeld, “Adverbs and Adjectives: An Abstraction
for
Software Defined Radio,” International Symposium on Advanced Radio
Technology
(ISART), 2005.
83.
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.
84.
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 Notes in Computer Science 3483, pp.528–537, 2005.
85.
T.
Lookabaugh and D. C. Sicker, “Self–Regulation of E911 For VoIP: Lessons
or the
Cable Industry from Environmental Voluntary Agreements,” 2005 Magness
Institute
Academic Seminar, National Cable Television Association, 2005.
2004
86.
Lookabaugh,
T. and 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) Chapter
87.
Sicker,
D.C., Lookabaugh, T., “VoIP Security: Not an Afterthought,” ACM Queue
Magazine,
Vol. 2 No 6, pp. 56–64, 2004. (8 pages) Journal
88.
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)
Journal
89.
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) Journal
90.
Rohrer,
C. and Sicker, D., “Implications of DOCSIS–QoS on Cable Broadband
Service,”
32nd Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, 2004.
(Acceptance
Rate = 25%) (30 pages) Comp_Conference
91.
Sicker,
D.C., Lookabaugh, T., “A Model for E911 VoIP Certification,” 32nd
Annual
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, 2004. (Acceptance Rate =
25%)
(31 pages) Comp_Conference
92.
Sicker,
Tschofenig, and Peterson, “Trait–based Authorization Mechanisms for SIP
Based
on SAML,” IEEE GlobeCom 2004, VoIP Security Workshop, December 2004.
(Acceptance Rate = 35%) (6 pages)
93.
Barnes,
Fuchs, Silverstein, Ko, Lookabaugh, Brown and Sicker, “Integrate
Utilities
Engineering Management MS Program” 37th Annual IEEE Frontiers of Power
Conference
Proceedings, 2004.
94.
Sicker,
Douglas and Lookabaugh, Tom, “A Model for Emergency Service of VoIP
Through
Certification and Labeling” NET Institute Conference,
http://ssrn.com/abstract=621724,
2004.
95.
T. Lookabaugh
and D.C. Sicker, “Information Technology Mediated Education –
Revolution not
Evolution,” 34th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2004.
96.
T.
Lookabaugh and D.C. Sicker, “Topics in Cable and Security,” NCTA
Academic
Seminar, 2004.
97.
T. Lookabaugh
and D. C. Sicker, “Selective Encryption for Consumer Applications,”
IEEE
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2004.
2003
98.
Sicker,
D., “Privacy and Anonymity Through Role Based Authorization,” 31st
Annual
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, 2003. (Acceptance Rate =
25%)
(14 pages) Comp_Conference
99.
Shah,
Sicker and Hatfield, “Thinking About Openness in the Telecommunications
Context,” 31st Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference,
2003.
(Acceptance Rate = 25%) (20 pages) Comp_Conference
100.
Sicker, D., “A Federated
Model for
Secure Web–Based Videoconferencing,” IEEE Computer Society Press
Proceedings of
the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and
Computing,
2003.
101.
Sicker, D., “Public Safety
and
Emergency Services in Future Wireless Communications,” Fifth Annual
International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies, 2003.
102.
Savage, Lookabaugh, and
Sicker,
“Broadband Internet Access: Awareness and Use,” 25th Annual Pacific
Telecommunications Council, 2003.
103.
Lookabaugh and Sicker,
“Security
Analysis of Selectively Encrypted MPEG–2 Streams,” Multimedia Systems
and
Applications VI, International Symposium on ITCom, 2003.
104.
Sicker, D.C. and Chavali,
A. and
Kalkarni, A., “SAML-SIP Profiles for Inter-domain Role-Based
Authorization”,
IASTED International Conference on Communication, Network and
Information
Security, 2003.
105.
Lookabaugh, Sicker, and
Savage,
“Broadband Demand and Wireless,” 5th Annual International Symposium on
Advanced
Radio Research, 2003.
106.
Sicker, D.C., “A Layered
Model for
VoIP,” 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS),
2003.
107.
Lookabaugh and Sicker,
“Security and
Lock–In: The Case of the U. S. Cable Industry,” 2nd Annual Economics
and
Information Security Workshop, 2003.
2002
108.
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) Journal
2001 and before
109.
Sicker, D.C., “A
Multidimensional
Scaling Analysis of Emerging Signaling Protocols,” Telecommunications
Policy
Research Conference, 2000. (Acceptance Rate = 25%)
110.
Sicker, D.C., and Kende,
M.,
“Real–time Services and the Fragmentation of the Internet,”
Telecommunications
Policy Research Conference, 2000. (Acceptance Rate = 25%)
111.
Sicker, D.C., and Weiss,
M., “Funding
Models for AIN–based LNP,” Telecommunications Policy Research
Conference, 1998.
(Acceptance Rate = 25%)
112.
Sicker, D.C., Weiss, M.,
“Performance
Issues of AIN–based Local Number Portability Solutions,” 6th Intl.
Telecommunication Systems Performance and Modeling Conference,
Vanderbilt
University, 1998. (Acceptance Rate = 30%)
113.
Sicker, D.C., “Active and
Intelligent
Networks,” 12th Annual IEEE Workshop on Computer Communications
Proceedings,
Phoenix, AZ, 1997.
114.
Salup, R.R., Sicker D.C.,
Finley,
G.G. and Wolmark, N.: Estrogen receptor positive breast cancer cell
lines
express neu, ndf and CD54. Proceedings of the 85th Annual Meeting of
the
American Association for Cancer Research 35: 211, 1994.
115.
Salup, R.R., Sicker, D.C.,
Wolmark,
N., Finley, G.G.: Expression and function of the ndf/neu
ligand/receptor
complex in prostate cancer cell lines. Proceedings of the 85th Annual
Meeting
of the American Association of Cancer Research 35: 1668, 1994.
116.
Corral, D.A., Sicker,
D.C., Salup,
R.R.: Stimulation of osteoblast by growth factors from human prostate
cancer
cells supernatants. Proceedings of the 85th Annual Meeting of the
American
Association for Cancer Research 35: 1669, 1994.
117.
Salup, R.R., Corral, D.A.,
Sicker,
D.C., Wolmark, N.:Peptide– induced augmentation of renal cell cancer
lysis by
natural killer and cytotoxic lymphocytes. Proceedings of the 85th
Annual
Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research 35: 2930, 1994.
118.
Salup, R.R., Sicker, D.C.,
Wolmark,
N., Finley, G.G.:Presence and biological implications of the HER2/neu
receptor
and its ligand NDF in prostate cancer cells. Proceedings
of the 89th Annual Meeting of the American
Urological Association, May 14 – 19, 1994, San Francisco, California.
119.
Salup, R.R., Sicker, D.C.,
Ballou,
B.T., Flack, C.E., Wolmark, N. and Hakala, T.R.: Improved Lymphocyte
Cytotoxicity Against Murine Renal Cell Carcinoma .J. Immunology. 147:
491 –
495, 1992.
120.
Salup, R.R., Sicker, D.C.,
Wolmark,
N., Herberman, R.B. and Hakala,T.R.: Chemoimmunotherapy of Metastatic
Murine
Renal Carcinoma Using Flavonic Acetic Acid and Interleukin 2 .J.
Urology, Vol.
147, 1120 – 1123, April, 1992.
121.
Salup, R.R., Sicker, D.C.,
Gaines,
T.P., Langheinrich, C.,Hakala, T.R. and Wolmark, N.: CD54 expression by
tumor
cells affects lysis by natural killer cells and response to biological
response
modifiers therapy. Proceedings of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the
American
Association for Cancer Research 33: 1770, 1992.
122.
Salup, R.R., Sicker, D.C.,
Wolmark,
N., Herberman, R.B. and Hakala, T.R.: Chemoimmunotherapy of metastatic
murine
renal cell carcinoma using flavonic acetic acid and interleukin 2.
Proceedings
of the 86th Annual Meeting of the American Urological Association, June
2 – 6,
1991, Toronto, Ontario,Canada.
123.
Salup, R.R., Sicker, D.C.
and
Wolmark, N.: Modulation of lymphocyte cytotoxicity using anti–CD3,
interleukin
4.Proceedings of the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Association
for Cancer
Research 32: 1369, 1991.
124.
Salup, R.R., Ballou, B.T.,
Sicker,
D., Hakala, T.R. and Wolmark, N.: Improved lymphocytecytotoxicity
against
murine renal carcinoma. Proceedings of the 81st Annual Meeting of the
American
Association for Cancer Research 31: 265, 1990.
125.
Wolmark, N., Sicker, D.,
Yee, L.,
Hiserodt, J.C. and Salup, R.R.: Successful Chemoimmunotherapy of murine
mammary
adenocarcinoma using human recombinant interleukin 2 and doxorubicin
hydrochloride. Proceedings of the 81st Annual Meeting of the American
Association
for Cancer Research 31:268, 1990.
126.
Salup, R.R., Sicker, D.C.
and
Wolmark, N: Verapamil enhances the cytotoxicity of doxorubicin against
three
solid tumors. Proceeding of the 81st Annual Meeting of the American
Association
for Cancer Research 31: 402, 1990.
127.
Salup, R.R., Toth, J.A.,
Sicker, D.
and Wolmark, N.: Chemoimmunotherapy of Metastatic Mammary
Adenocarcinoma using
Flavonic Acetic Acid, Doxorubicin hydrochloride and Human Recombinant
Interleukin–6. Proceeding of the 80th Annual Meeting of the American
Association for Cancer Research 30: 1460, 1989.
Technical Reports
1.
IETF
Draft, “SIP for SAML”, 2008.
2.
IEEE
SCC41 P.1900.1 Standard, IEEE 1900.1 Working Group on Terminology and
Concepts
for Next Generation Radio Systems and Spectrum Management, 2008.
3.
White
paper for the Turkish government on emerging technology issues, 2007.
4.
Technical
Report for the Australian government on radio frequency spectrum
management,
2007.
5.
IETF
RFC 4484, “Trait–based Authorization Requirements for the Session
Initiation
Protocol,” Peterson, Polk, Sicker and Tschofenig, 2006.
6.
“Bandwidth
Demand Analysis,” D. C. Sicker, Level 3 architecture document, 2000.
7.
“Bandwidth
Supply Analysis,” D. C. Sicker, Level 3 architecture document, 2000.
8.
“An
Analysis of the N2 Effect and Network Design,” D. C. Sicker,
Level 3
architecture document, 2000.
9.
“Modeling
Telecommunication Outages Using the Bayesian Approach of Collective
Risk,”
Andre Rausch and Douglas C. Sicker, submitted and presented to the
Network
Reliability Steering Committee through Committee T1, 1999.
10.
“Telecommunications
Education and Research Network – Architecture, Devices and Protocols,”
D.C.
Sicker, technical report provided to investors and users of TERN, 1993.
11.
“Telecommunications
Education and Research Network (TERN) – Laboratory Manual,” D.C.
Sicker, Lab
manual developed for TERN, 1993.
12.
Tom
Lookabaugh and I have written a number of other technical reports
addressing
the conflicts between technology and public policy.
These are available at
http://spot.colorado.edu/~sicker/policylab
Government Publications
I co–authored numerous Notice of Inquires,
Congressional responses, merger reviews, Notice of Proposed
Rulemakings, and
Orders while at the FCC. While
these tasks preempted my academic research and publishing, I was able
to gain
considerable insight into the Federal policy making process. As an example of this work, the cite
below is the last document that I co–authored while at the FCC:
1.
Notice
of Inquiry Regarding High Speed Access to the Internet over Cable and
Other
Facilities, October, 2000.
See http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Miscellaneous/Notices/2000/fcc00355.pdf
Other
1.
Contributor
on Digital Age Communications Act (DACA) Framework, available at www.pff.org/DACA,
2005.
2.
Contributor
on DACA Federal–State Framework, available at www.pff.org/DACA,
2005.
3.
Tschofenig,
H., Peterson, J., Polk, J., Sicker, D. and M. Tegnander, “Using SAML
for SIP,”
<draft–tschofenig–sip–saml–03.txt>, IETF Internet Draft,
(work–in–progress), 2005 - 2007.
4.
Weiser,
P. and Sicker, D.C., “Governmental Responses to Cybersecurity
Breaches,”
Ogmius, January 2004, available at http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/ogmius.
5.
Sicker,
D.C., “Delocalization in Telecommunications Networks,” Progress and
Freedom
Foundation, Progress on Point Report, January 2004, available at www.pff.org.
6.
Peterson,
Polk and Sicker, “Trait–based Authorization Requirements for the
Session
Initiation Protocol (SIP),” (Work in Progress),
draft–peterson–sipping–trait–authz–00,
January 2004.
7.
Sicker,
D. and Pies, S., “The Future of Our Nation's Communications
Infrastructure,” A
Federal Advisory Committee Report to the Nation,
Network Reliability and
Interoperability Council, 2002.
8.
Sicker,
D.C., “The Effects of Emerging Signaling Protocols on Future
Telephony,” CCH
Telecom Journal, March 1999.
9.
Sicker,
D.C., Newman, S., “Evolving Regulatory Perspectives on Telephone
Network
Reliability,” CCH Telecom Journal, December 1998.
Provost faculty
Achievement Award,
University of Colorado, 2009.
Outstanding Junior
Faculty, College
of Engineering and Applied Science, 2008.
IBM Faculty Partnership
Award (2009)
IBM Faculty Partnership
Award (2008)
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)
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA)
Tim Brown (PI) and Douglas
C. Sicker
(co-PI), The Role of Cognitive Radio in Remote Operation of UAS,
Federal
Aviation Administration Cooperative Agreement 08-G-004
$189,620, July 2008 -
July 2010.
DARPA
Douglas C. Sicker (PI),
Tim Brown,
Dale Hatfield, Tom Lookabaugh, Phil Weiser; DARPA XG Phase III
contract,
$526,679 (2/06–9/08)
(my part $250,000)
Dirk Grunwald (PI) and
Douglas C
Sicker, WANN (Wireless Adaptable Network Nodes, $25,000 (2007) (my part
$12,500)
National
Science Foundation
Leysia Palen (PI), Douglas
Sicker,
Ken Anderson and Jim Martin, Crisis Informatics, 9/09-9/14, $2,400,000.
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 “DySPAN
Travel 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)
Gorgon Stare Project (DOD)
Douglas C. Sicker (PI),
Feasibility
analsysi of Cogntive Radios in Gorgon Stare, 2009, $26,000.
IBM Faculty Partnership
Award
Douglas
C. Sicker (PI), Wireless Location Technology, $10,000 (2008)
Douglas
C. Sicker (PI), Modeling Security Breaches, $10,000 (2005)
Cisco Systems
Douglas C. Sicker (PI),
Tom
Lookabaugh, Scott Savage; Broadband Technology 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
- 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
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, Society
Board of Directors –
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (2009, 2010)
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)
Invited participant at the
Conference
Board, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
(NARUC),
the Federal Communications Bar Association and the KMB Conference.
Chair, Telecommunications
Policy
Research Conference (TPRC), 2009.
Co-chair, IEEE Dynamic
Spectrum
Access Networks (DySPAN) 2010
Vice Chair, IEEE Dynamic
Spectrum
Access Networks (DySPAN) 2008
Technical Program
Committee – IEEE
Software Defined Radio Workshop (2008)
Co–Chair, Technical
Program
Committee, IEEE Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless
Networks and
Communications (CrownCom) (2008)
Technical Program
Committee – IEEE
CrownCom Workshop (2007)
Technical Program
Committee – IEEE
Software Defined Radio Workshop (2006)
Technical Program
Committee – IEEE
Technology and Policy for Accessing Spectrum (TAPAS) Workshop (2006)
Technical Program
Committee – IEEE
DYSPAN (2007)
Policy Program Committee –
IEEE
DYSPAN (2007) (This is a separate PC that addresses public policy
papers for
DySPAN.)
Organizing Committee –
IEEE DYSPAN
(2007)
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)
Technical Program
Committee – DYSPAN
(2005)
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 Board – IEEE
Transaction on
Wireless Communications Journal (2007 – 2008)
Guest Editor – IEEE
Communications,
Radio Series (March 2009)
Guest Editor – IEEE
Communications,
Radio Series (July 2007)
Co-editor – Special TPRC
Edition,
Journal of Telecommunications Policy (September 2005)
Network Advisory Board –
DARPA
M/A–Com team radio design (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 Dynamic Spectrum Access (2006-2007)
Member – IEEE P1900.2
Working Group
of Radio Frequency Interference (2005-2007)
Panel Participant – 8 NSF
CISE panels
(2003–2007)
Panel Participant – ASEE
National Defense
Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Program (2007)
NSF GENI – Invited
participant in
GENI workshops and co-authored a white paper on cognitive radio for the
National Science Foundation (2007)
Advised Marteleron on
their VOIP
peering product (2008)
Advisory Board of Shared
Spectrum
Company (2008)
Consulted to TIA (2008)
Advised US Cellular
Cooperation on
the 700 MHz D block auction (2008)
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)
Marteleron – network
technology
including network security and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
(2007)
FairPoint Communications –
broadband
technology deployment (2007)
Chair
Computer Committee – Computer Science (2008, 2009)
Chair Colloquium Committee
- Computer
Science (2009)
Executive Committee –
Computer
Science (2007-2009)
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)