Krishan Sabnani

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Krishan K. Sabnani (* 1954 in New Delhi ) is an Indian-American network engineer.

Sabnani studied electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi in Kanpur with a bachelor's degree in 1971, received his master's degree in the Netherlands (1977) and received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1981. He then went to Bell Laboratories , where he headed mobile communications research from 1993 and is Senior Vice President of the Network Research Laboratory.

He made important contributions to WLAN technology and network protocols. His research found application both on the Internet and cellular networks. He created the SNR protocol, AirMail and the Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol (RMTP).

In 2005 he received the W. Wallace McDowell Award and the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE , the Association for Computing Machinery, and a Bell Labs Fellow.

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