Ph.D., 1993 - University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Electrical Engineering
M.S., 1989 - University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Electrical Engineering
B.S., 1986 - University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Computer Engineering
Contact Information
Office: 316 Fluor Daniel EIB
Office Phone: 864.656.7214
Fax: 864.656.7220
Email: harlanr@clemson.edu
Professional
From 1993 to 1999, Dr. Russell was a Senior Research Engineer for Techno-Sciences, Inc., Pendleton, SC. While at Techno-Sciences he worked on a number of joint projects with faculty at Clemson University and industrial partners ITT Industries and BBN Technologies. A GloMo project funded by DARPA is one such example, and consisted of adding advanced link and network layer protocols to ITT's Handheld Multimedia Terminal (HMT). The network protocol suite, called RAVEN, combines an adaptive routing protocol with a virtual circuit protocol to support data, voice, and video traffic in ITT's radio. He joined the faculty at Clemson University in December 1999 as an Assistant Professor.
Research
Dr. Russell's research interests are in distributed protocols for wireless networks. Highly mobile communication networks are needed for applications such a military operations, emergency search-and-rescue, and data collection in inhospitable environments. These self-configuring networks are formed by the ad hoc collection of radios that are available at the time and location communication is required, and these networks should not depend on an existing infrastructure. His group is conducting research on link, network, and transport layer protocols that provide different quality-of-service levels for multimedia traffic in ad hoc networks.