Harlan B. Russell

Harlan B. Russell serves as Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Graduate Program Coordinator at Clemson University's College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences. He joined the faculty in December 1999 after six years as a Senior Research Engineer at Techno-Sciences, Inc., where he collaborated with Clemson faculty and industry partners including ITT Industries and BBN Technologies on projects like the DARPA-funded GloMo initiative.

His educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (1993)
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (1989)
• B.S. in Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (1986)

Dr. Russell's research focuses on distributed protocols for wireless networks in military, emergency response, and inhospitable environments. His group develops:

• Link/network/transport layer protocols for multimedia QoS using link quality metrics
• Least-resistance routing for dynamic topologies adapting to interference and energy constraints
• Contention-based and scheduled spectrum access protocols for spectral efficiency
• Self-configuring protocols for frequency-agile software-defined radios

Scientific awards: None documented in source material.

As Graduate Program Coordinator, he oversees ECE graduate education. His DARPA-funded GloMo project produced the RAVEN protocol suite for ITT's Handheld Multimedia Terminal, enabling data/voice/video transmission via adaptive routing and virtual circuits. Collaborations include BBN Technologies and industrial partners on infrastructure-independent ad hoc networks.

Dr. Russell leads a research group developing protocols for reliable mobile wireless networks, with current work on spectrum utilization in congested bands and next-generation frequency-agile radio systems.