Dr. Aráuz is currently the Graduate Director of the School of Emerging Communication Technologies at Ohio University. His areas of research are wireless networks, wireless communications, information networking, IoT, energy harvesting and passive radar. He teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in the field of information networking.
Courses Taught (partial list)
- Understanding Internet Technology
- Internet of Things
- Foundations of Communication Systems
- Research Methods
- Communication Systems & Applications
- Data Networking
- Information and Telecommunications Policy
- Internet Applications and Network Systems
- Broadband Access Networks
- Wireless Telecommunications
- Practicum in Communication Systems
- Information Networks
- Emerging Topics in Networking
Education
- PhD, Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
- MS, Telecommunications, University of Pittsburgh
- BS, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Nat’l Polytechnic School, Quito, Ecuador
Teaching Experience
- Faculty, J. Warren McClure School of Emerging Communication Technologies
- Full-Time Teaching Appointment, School of Sciences and Engineering, Universidad San Francisco de Quito – Ecuador
- Teaching Appointment as Graduate Student Researcher, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Professional Experience
- Research Scientist, Mobile Wireless Network Division, NEC Network Laboratories, Heidelberg, Germany
- Project Leader, Banco Popular Outsourcing Project – Services Division; Telecommunications Manager, Customs Systems Integration Project, Solutions and Services Division a company of IBM of Ecuador.
- Network Manager Abaco Constructors
Research Interests
- Wireless communications and system level evaluations
- Applied cooperative control
- Passive radar for drone detection in urban environments
- Applied machine learning
- Energy harvesting for batteryless IoT devices
Publications
J. Aráuz “Estimating Hidden Information for Self-Organization and Self-Healing in Modern Wireless Networks,” Missouri University of Science and Technology, Complex Adaptive Systems 2013 Conference, Baltimore, MD, November, 2013.
Aráuz J., “Self-Organizing Evolving Education,” Missouri University of Science and Technology, Complex Adaptive Systems 2013 Conference, Baltimore, MD, November, 2013.
J. Aráuz and T. Fynn-Cudjoe, “Actuator Quality in the Internet of Things,” IEEE Workshop on Internet-of-Things Networking and Control (IoT-NC), in conjunction with IEEE SECON 2013, New Orleans, LA.
Z. Miller and J. Aráuz, “Self-Coexistence with Autonomous Target Variable Selection for White Space Devices,” ITERA 2013, Cincinnati, OH.
J. Arauz, J. W. McClure, Z. Miller, and A. Sanchez, “Self-organized distributed cooperative control of interference in femtocell networks,” 2012 International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Networking (iCOST), Avignon, France, July, 2012.
J. Arauz, and W. McClure, W., “PGM structures in self-organized healing for small cell networks,” 2013 International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Networking (MoWNeT), pp.7, 12, August, 2013.
J. Aráuz, “Estimating Hidden Information for Self-organization and Self-healing in Modern Wireless Networks.”
J. Aráuz and Z. Miller Z., “Self-coexistence in the Dense Case for White Spaces,” Proceedings of the Wireless Days 2012 Conference, 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
A. Snow, J. Aráuz, G. Weckman, and A. Shyirambere, “A Reliability and Survivability Analysis of Local Transmission Switches Suffering Frequent Outages,” approved for publication in the proceedings of the International Conference on Networks, ICN 2013, Seville, Spain.
X. Costa, M. Mezzavilla, J. De Marca, and J. Aráuz, “E-Diophantine, An Admission Control Algorithm for WiMAX Networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Sydney, Australia, April, 2010.
X. Costa, P. Favaro, A. Zubow, and J. Aráuz, “On the Challenges for the Maximization of Radio Resources Usage in WiMAX Networks,” Proceedings of the 2nd. IEEE Broadband and Wireless Access Workshop, February, 2008.
J. Aráuz, P. Favaro, D Camps-Mur, and X. Costa, “Research Challenges in Multimedia WiMAX, in Handbook of Research in Mobile Multimedia , I. K. Ibrahim, Ed. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, December, 2007, pp. 36–50.
J. Aráuz and P. Krishnamurthy, “Discrete Rayleigh Fading Channel Modeling,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal , Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 413–425, 2004.
J. Aráuz and P. Krishnamurthy, “Markov Modeling of 802.11Channels,” presented at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Fall, 2003, Orlando, FL.
J. Aráuz and P. Krishnamurthy, “A Study of the Performance of Different Partitioning Schemes in First Order Markovian Models for Rayleigh Fading Channels,” presented at IEEE Personal Multimedia Communications Symposium October, 2002, Honolulu, HI.
J. Aráuz, S. Banerjee, and P. Krishnamurthy, “MAITE: A Scheme for Improving the Performance of TCP over Wireless Channels,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference – VTC Fall, 2001, Atlantic City, NJ.
Patents
- Method for Processing of Downlink Data Frames at Base Stations of WiMAX Systems, X. Costa, J. Aráuz, D. Camps-Mur, applied in several countries, 2007, granted in Japan, 2012.
- Method for Assembling Frames in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)-Based Communication System, A. Zubow, J. Aráuz, X. Costa, P. Favaro, D. Camps-Mur, applied in several countries, 2007.