Rolando Menchaca-Mendez University of California Santa Cruz School of Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz CA 95064 Phone: +1-831-459-5436 Fax: +1-831-459-4829 E-mail: menchaca"at"soe.ucsc.edu

I am a graduate student at the Computer Engineering Ph.D. program at the beautiful UCSC. I am proud to belong to the Computer Communication Research Group that is leaded by my advisor Professor J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. I am here thanks to the support provided by the Mexican National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) and the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT).