Michael Zink is currently Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Previously, he was
a Research Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of
Massachusetts in Amherst. He got his PhD in 2003 from the Multimedia Communications
Laboratory at Darmstadt University of Technology. He works in the fields of
sense-and-response sensor networks, distribution of high-bandwidth, high-volume data, and
the design and analysis of long-distance wireless networks and Systems Engineering.
Further research interests are in wide-area multimedia distribution for wired and
wireless environments and network protocols. He is one of the developers of the KOMSSYS
streaming platform. He received his Diploma (M.Sc.) from Darmstadt University of
Technology in 1997. From 1997 to 1998 he was employed as a guest researcher at the
National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he developed an MPLS
testbed. In 2003 he received his Ph.D. degree (Dr.-Ing) from Darmstadt University of
Technology; his thesis was on Scalable Internet Video-on-Demand Systems.

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FloorNet: Deployment and Evaluation of aMultihop Wireless 802.11 Testbed (with Pablo Serrano, Carlos J. Bernardos, Antonio de la Oliva, Albert Banchs, and Ignacio Soto), EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2010)

A lot of attention has been given to multihop wireless networks lately, but further research—in...