Charles E. Perkins, with 30 years experience in computer systems, networking, and telecommunications research, currently serves as Nokia Fellow. Perkins is responsible for innovative leadership and research into wireless networking at Palo Alto. Most recently, Perkins has been spearheading efforts into ad hoc research, and is deeply involved with creation and standardization of a Proposed Standard routing protocol for ad hoc networks in the IETF.

At Nokia, Perkins was first instrumental in developing, creating, and facilitating research into Mobile IP, Mobile IPv6, and several related technologies for wireless networking. In addition, he has been awarded or received recognition as the inventor of one of the most important patented technologies of the 1990s by the European Patent Office, has published a book on Ad Hoc networks and several important RFCs within the IETF.

Prior to joining Nokia, Perkins held positions at Sun Microsystems, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Tektronix Laboratories, and TRW Systems. He earned a MSEE at Rice University, MA in mathematics from Columbia University, and BA in mathematics and applied mathematics (computer science) at Rice University. Perkins is an active member in the IETF, as well as ACM and IEEE. He has spoken at industry conferences and given numerous tutorials on Mobile IP, ad hoc networking, IPv6, and the future of the Internet.

Presentation Title: IPv6 From the Ground Up [True Autonomous Networking

Abstract:

The last couple of years have seen a marked increase in the deployment of wireless mesh networks.  Many of the most widely publicized networks have been in municipal settings.  However, in the developing world, there are an increasing number of deployments in rural communities.  For many such communities, there are several well-known requirements:

- Battery or solar powered operation,- Low maintenance

- Automatic configuration and setup,  it seems that IPv6-based mesh and ad-hoc networks are

able to meet these requirements.  Recent efforts in subequatorial Africa have shed light on new best practices

and also have served to validate the engineering approaches involved in these technologies.  On the other hand, some needs are still unmet, including:

- User-friendly security, - Remote administration, - Delay-tolerant networking

-Enabling these features will, no doubt, serve to benefit the Internet at large in addition to providing crucial support for the rural communities that are making the needs clear already today.

In my talk, I will describe some of the existing deployment experience and also our recent advances in experimenting with our wireless mesh testbed.

There is a very active community of researchers making use of programmable 802.11 access points, and creating new software for them to operate as a very inexpensive wireless mesh.  We are building

on the experience of this research community to progress towards new products to serve the emerging markets.  As the emerging markets mature, the role of IPv6 may grow continually in importance as the local

population benefits from improved economy and better interconnection between neighboring villages.

IPv6 may also be instrumental in enabling applications that help to create the "Internet of Things" as the people in the local wireless mesh learn to deploy sensor networks and other network elements in new

ways.  We are also likely to see a redefinition of the term "social networking" as it begins to have application in societies significantly different from our daily experience.  How these concepts will