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 Resume of ORAN SHARON 

36 Hashoshanim Street 

K. Tivon 3605636, Israel 

Tel. 972-4-9831-406 

" [email protected] 

Education: 

D.Sc. degree in Computer Science ,1994 

Technion, IIT, Haifa, Israel 

Research subject: 

Protocols for Spatial and Slot Reuse in Bus Networks 

Research: Distributed algorithms, MAC protocols for wired and wireless networks. 

M.Sc. degree in Computer Science, 1988 

Technion, IIT, Haifa, Israel 

Research subject: 

Models for address distribution and session management in 

Broadcast networks with dynamic addresses. 

B.Sc. degree in Computer Science, with honors, 1986 

Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (IIT), Haifa, Israel 

mployment Record:E 

2008 – 2011 

Consultant : to an industrial company in issues related to the 

relation between the PHY and MAC layers in order to enable 

efficient transmission on a Wireless link. 

2001 – 

Senior lecture – Netanya Academic College 

Courses: 

1. Digital Systems 

2. Introduction to Computer Networks 

ARQ protocols, 802.3 – Ethernet, 802.11 – WLAN, 802.1d – Bridging 

Introduction to TCP/IP 

3. IP Networking 1 

DNS , Unicast routing ( RIP, OSPF, BGPv4) 

Multicast routing ( DVMRP, MOSPF, PIM-SM, PIM-DM, CBT ) 

TCP – reliability, performance ( NewReno, Limited transmit, SACK ) 

Sockets 

The Web 

4. IP Networking 2 

QoS – IntServ, DiffServ 

RSVP 

MPLS 2 

BGP/MPLS VPNs 

Network Security ( Symmetric, Public Key Crypt, Hash functions, 

IPSec, SSL ) 

IP Telephony : H.323, SIP 

IPv6 

Mobile IPv4, Mobile IPv6 

. Q etc. ) 2Scheduling policies ( WFQ, WF – Seminar5. 

1998-2001 

ECI Telecom – Datacom Scientist, advisor. 

The position included learning various new subjects in TCP/IP such 

as VPNs, MPLS, QoS and evaluating their relevance and importance to 

the company products. 

Another issue was to follow after the standardization process regarding 

the control plane ( GMPLS ) of optical networks ( OTN ) in order to 

eventually incorporate the standards into the optical products of the company. 

1995-1998 

Dr. Instructor – 

Haifa University; 

Tel Aviv University; 

Courses: 

1. Introduction to Computer Networks 

2. The Assembly language of the 80×86 processors 

3. High Speed Networks – Architecture and protocols 

1995 

Consultant – Network Technology Department, HP Labs, Bristol, England 

Involved in two projects: 

1. The design of a compatible CSMA/CD MAC protocol for a Home LAN. 

Included the specification of the protocol, proof of correctness and performance 

analysis by mathematical analysis and simulation ( by BONeS ). 

2. The design of a MAC protocol for a Wireless 

LAN ( WLAN ) for classrooms. The protocol is a novel variation of 

Polling schemes which enables simultaneous transmissions of control 

and data packets. Included the specification of the protocol, 

correctness proof and performance evaluation. 

1987 – 1994 

Teaching assistant – Computer Science Faculty 

Technion, IIT, Haifa, Israel 

Courses: 

1. Introduction to Programming 

2. Introduction to Optimization 

3. Introduction to Computer Networks 

1985 – 1986 

Nikuv Ltd. Software House 

Ha'atzmaut Road 112, Haifa, Israel 3 

Awards: 

The Gutwirth award for excellence in research – 1991 

Haifa University – Rector and Dean of the students award for excellence 

in teaching : 2003 , 2004 

Netanya Academic College – Award for excellence in teaching : 2015 

Patents: 

" A CSMA/CD compatible MAC for real-time transmissions 

based on varying collision intervals " 

Inventors: O. Sharon, M. Spratt; Applicant: Hewlett Packard company. 

Books: 

Co-author of the book ' Data Communications ' – serves as a text 

book for High Schools. Publisher – Ministry of Education, Israel. 

:eted theses ) ( Compl M.Sc. Students 

3. A. Liron, 

" Efficient coupled PHY and MAC use of Physical Bursts by ARQ-Enabled 

connections in WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e Networks" , 2014 

2. G. Tabajha, 

"Efficient Coupled PHY and MAC use of Physical Bursts in 

WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e Networks ", 2012 

1. A. Likholat, 

"On the relation between the throughput gain with slot reuse and the 

number of address bits in the Dual Bus configuration", 2001 4 

Publications in Journals: 

33. O. Sharon, Y. Alpert, 

" Advanced IEEE 802.11ax TCP aware scheduling under unreliable 

channels " 

International Journal on Communication Systems Vol.32, Issue14 (2019) 

32. O. Sharon, Y. Alpert, 

" Optimizing TCP Goodput and Delay in Next Generation IEEE 802.11 

(ax) Devices " 

Transactions on Networks and Communications Vol. 6 No. 4 (2018) pp. 14-40 

31. O. Sharon, Y. Alpert, 

" Scheduling strategies and throughput optimization for the Downlink 

for IEEE 802.11ax and IEEE 802.11ac based networks " 

Wireless Sensor Networks 9 (2017) pp. 355-383 

30. O. Sharon, Y. Alpert 

" Scheduling Strategies and Throughput optimization for the Uplink for 

IEEE 802.11ax and IEEE 802.11ac based networks " 

Wireless Sensor Networks 9 (2017) pp. 250-273 

29. O. Sharon, Y. Alpert, 

" Single User MAC level Throughput comparison: IEEE 802.11ax vs. 

IEEE 802.11 ac" 

Wireless Sensor Networks 9 (2017) pp. 166-177 

28. O. Sharon, Y. Alpert, 

" Comparison between TCP scheduling strategies in IEEE 802.11ac based 

Wireless networks " 

Ad Hoc Networks 61C(2017) pp. 95-113 

27. O. Sharon, Y. Alpert, 

" A New Aggregation based Scheduling method for rapidly changing 

802.11ac Wireless channels " 

Wireless Sensor Networks 8(8) (2016) 145-165 

26. O. Sharon, Y. Alpert, 

" Coupled IEEE 802.11ac and TCP Goodput improvement using 

Aggregation and Reverse Direction " 

Wireless Sensor Networks 8(7) (2016) 107-136 

25. O. Sharon, Y. Alpert, 

" Coupled IEEE 802.11ac and TCP performance evaluation in various 

aggregation schemes and Access Categories" 

Computer Networks 100 (2016) 141-156 

24. O. Sharon, Y. Alpert, 

" The combination of aggregation, ARQ, QoS guarantee and mapping of 

Application flows in Very High Throughput 802.11ac networks " 

Physical Communication 17 (2015) 15-36 

23. O. Sharon, Y. Alpert, 

" The combination of QoS , aggregation and RTS/CTS in 

Very High Throughput 802.11ac networks " 

Physical Communication 15 (2015) 25-45 

22. O. Sharon, Y. Alpert, 5 

" MAC level Throughput comparison: 802.11ac vs. 802.11n ", 

Physical Communication 12 (2014) 33-49 

21. O. Sharon, A. Liron, Y. Alpert, 

" Efficient coupled PHY and MAC use of physical bursts by ARQ-enabled 

connections in WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e networks" 

Physical Communication 10 (2014) 72-105 

20. O. Sharon, Y. Alpert, 

"Physical and Medium Access Control criteria for the optimal 

Medium Access Control protocol data unit size in Automatic Repeat 

Request-enabled connections in IEEE 802.16e/WiMAX systems", 

International Journal of Communication Systems 27(2014) 3292-3311 

19. O. Sharon, G. Tabajha, Y. Alpert, 

"Efficient coupled PHY and MAC use of physical Bursts in WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e networks", Physical Communication 7 (2013) 73-91 

18. Y. Alpert, J. Segev O. Sharon, 

"Towards an optimal transmission of SDUs in IEEE 802.16e/WiMAX 

systems", Physical Communication 7 (2013) 44-60 

17. Y. Alpert, J. Segev, O. Sharon, 

"Coupled PHY, MAC and repetition scheduling in IEEE 802.16 

WiMAX systems", 

Physical Communication 7 (2013) 14-29 

16. Y. Alpert, J. Segev, O. Sharon, 

"Advanced coupled PHY and MAC scheduling in IEEE 802.16e WiMAX systems", Physical Communication 3( 2010) 287-298 

15. A. Israeli, O. Sharon, 

"An approximation algorithm for sequential rectangle placement", 

Information Processing Letters 108 (2008) 407-411 

14. A. Israeli, D. Rawitz, O. Sharon, 

"On the Complexity of Sequential Rectangle Placement in IEEE 

802.16/WiMAX Systems", Information and Computation, 206(11) (2008) 

1334-1345 

13. O. Sharon, A. Vainstein, A. Likholat, 

"On the relation between the throughput gain with slot reuse and the 

number of address bits in the dual bus configuration, Part 2: Linear and 

equal throughputs", Computer Systems, Science & Engineering journal, 

17 ( 4) (2002) 237-251 

12. O. Sharon, A. Likholat, 

"On the relation between the throughput gain with slot reuse and the 

number of address bits in the dual bus configuration, Part 1: Maximum 

throughput", Computer Systems, Science & Engineering journal, 

17 (4) (2002) 223-236 

11. O. Sharon, E. Altman, 

"An Efficient Polling MAC for Wireless LANs", 

ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, 10( 4) (2001) 439-451 

10. O. Sharon, M. Spratt, 

"A CSMA/CD compatible MAC for real-time transmissions based on 

varying collision intervals", Computer Networks 35 (2-3) (2001) 117-142 

9. O. Sharon, 

"Dissemination of Routing Information in Broadcast Networks:OSPF 

versus IS-IS", IEEE Network journal 15( 1) (2001) 56-65 6 

8. O. Sharon, A. Segall, 

"Session management in broadcast networks with dynamic addresses", 

Computer Networks 31 (23-24) (1999) 2489-2503 

7. O. Sharon, 

"On the Relation Between Bit Delay for Slot Reuse and the Number of 

Address Bits in the Dual Bus Configuration", IEEE Transaction on 

Information Theory 45 (1) ( 1999) 356-365 

6. O. Sharon, 

"A Proof for Lack of Starvation in DQDB With and Without Slot Reuse", 

ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking 5(3) (1997) 410-419 

5. O. Sharon, A. Segall, 

"The Parallel D-Net", Computer Communication 18 (8) (1995) 552-562 

4. O. Sharon, A. Segall, 

"Schemes for Slot Reuse in a Dual Bus System with the CRMA II MAC", 

Journal of High Speed Networks 4 (3) (1995) 239-254 

3. O. Sharon, A. Segall, 

"Schemes for Slot Reuse in CRMA", ACM/IEEE Transactions on 

Networking 2 (3) (1994) 269-278 

2. O. Sharon, A. Segall, 

"On the Efficiency of Slot Reuse in the Dual Bus Configuration", 

ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking 2 (1) (1994) 89-100 

1. O. Sharon, A. Segall, 

"A Simple scheme for Slot Reuse Without latency for a Dual Bus 

Configuration ", 

ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, 1 (1) (1993) 96-104 

Publications in Conferences: 

11. O. Sharon, A. Liron, Y. Alpert, 

“ Efficient coupled PHY and MAC use of Physical Bursts by ARQ-Enabled 

connections in WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e Networks” , Proceedings of the 

Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WINSYS) (2013) 191-198 

10. O. Sharon, G. Tabajha, Y. Alpert, 

"Efficient Coupled PHY and MAC use of Physical Bursts in WiMAX/IEEE 802.16e Networks", Proceedings of the Wireless Information Networks and 

Systems (WINSYS) (2012) 343-348 

9. O. Sharon, Y. Alpert, 

"Optimal MAC PDU size in ARQ-Enabled connections in WiMAX/IEEE 

802.16e Networks", Proceedings of the Wireless Information Networks and 

Systems (WINSYS) (2012) 315-322 

8. A. Israeli, D. Rawitz, O. Sharon, 

"On the Complexity of Sequential Rectangle Packing in IEEE 

802.16/WiMax Systems", Proceedings of the Europian Symposium on 

Algorithms (ESA) ( 2007) 570-581 

7. O. Sharon, 

"A CSMA/CD compatible MAC for real-time transmissions based on 7 

varying collision intervals", Proceedings of the IEEE International 

Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) (1998) 1265-1272 

6. O. Sharon, 

"On the relation between bit delay for Slot Reuse and the number of 

address bits in the Dual Bus Configuration", Proceedings of the 16th Annual 

ACM Symposium on the Principles of Distributed Computing ( PODC) (1997) 

294-294 

5. O. Sharon, 

"An Efficient Polling MAC for Wireless LANs ", 

Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Systems Workshop 

(HPCS) (1997) 91-100 

4. O. Sharon, A. Segall, 

"A proof for lack of starvation in DQDB with and without Slot Reuse", 

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer 

Communications (INFOCOM ) (1995) 1880-1888 

3. O. Sharon, A. Segall, 

"On the efficiency of Slot Reuse in the Dual Bus configuration ", Proceedings 

of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications 

(INFOCOM) (1994) 758-765 

2. O. Sharon, A. Segall, 

" Schemes for Slot Reuse in a Dual Bus system with the CRMA II MAC ", 

Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area 

Networks (1993) 27-47 

1. O. Sharon, A. Segall, 

"A Simple scheme for Slot Reuse Without latency inDual Bus ", 

Proceedings of the IFIG WG6.1/WG6.4 Third International Workshop on 

Protocols for High Speed Networks III ( 1992) 103-118 

Reference: 

Available upon request. 

Personal: 

Born in Israel, 1961 

Single 

Citizenship: 

Israeli