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John J. Metzner

  • Professor
346J IST Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-1264

Education:

  1. Eng.Sc.D., New York University

Biography:

Dr. John J. Metzner is a professor of computer engineering with appointments in both the Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering Departments. He received the B.E.E., M.E.E., and Eng.Sc.D. degrees from New York University. Prior to joining Penn State in 1986, he held faculty and research appointments at New York University, Polytechnic University, Wayne State University, Oakland University. He served a year as acting dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan; and two years as acting director of the Computer Engineering Program at Penn State.
In research, Dr. Metzner has devised various ARQ protocols for reliable and efficient data communication, techniques for efficient comparison of remote replicated data files, efficient acknowledgement protocols for slotted ring networks, improved broadcast retransmission protocols, methods for improved utilization of ALOHA and spread spectrum multiaccess, and techniques for simpler and more effective error correction. NSF has been the primary source of his research funding. He is the author of Reliable Data Communications, Academic Press, 1998.

Research Interests:

Reliable Data Communications Including Multicasting, Error-correcting Codes, Multi-access Wireless Network Protocols, Efficient Replicated File Comparison, Information Theory

Selected Publications:

  1. Metzner, J. J. June 2007. Packet-symbol Decoding for Reliable Multipath Reception with no Sequence Numbers. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007). Glasgow, Scotland.
  2. Metzner,J. March 2003. Vector Symbol Decoding with List Inner Symbol Decisions. IEEE Transactions on Communications 51(3):371-380.
  3. Tuntoolavest, U., J. Metzner. 2002. Vector Symbol Convolutional Decoding with List Symbol Decisions. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering 9(2):101-116.
  4. Park, C., J. J. Metzner. June 2002. Efficient Location of Discrepancies in Multiple Replicated Large Files. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 13(6):597-610.
  5. Metzner, J. December 2000. Majority-logic-like Vector Symbol Decoding with Alternative Symbol Value Lists. IEEE Transactions on Communications 48:2005-2013.