- Work being done by 802.11n and DLS SG to enable video transmission in the home
- Work being done by 802.11s and 802.16j to standardize mesh networking for municipal coverage and first responder applications; positioning of Wi-Fi and WiMAX with respect to one another and with respect to 3G/4G in the outdoors wireless networking market
- Work being done by 802.16 and 802.11 with ITU-T on the ITU-T/IEEE International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) Advanced Interfaces for next generation networking framework, including the new 1 Gbps Very High Speed wireless standard

Mathilde Benveniste has worked on wireless systems, including wireless LANs and cellular systems, for the past sixteen years, and holds over thirty patents in this field. She is presently a research scientist at Avaya Labs, having held research positions previously at AT&T Labs and AT&T Bell Labs. She has been active in the QoS and Mesh Networking 802.11 standards task groups, and has made numerous contributions to the 802.11 standard. Her graduate training was in operations research, and her undergraduate major was physics. She received Ph.D. and M.S.E. degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, MD, and a B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA.

Fanny is President and Principal Consultant at octoScope, Inc.
(www.octoscope.com), focusing on wireless communications product
architecture, advocacy and intellectual property development. In 2001
Fanny founded Azimuth Systems, the leading provider of wireless test
equipment, and was the company’s Chief Technical Officer for 5 years.
She spent 24 years in senior and executive R&D positions at
companies including Agilent, HP, Scope Communications, Concord
Communications, Chipcom and Teradyne. She has been active in the
development of industry standards at IEEE, ISO, TIA and 3GPP. For
the last 5 years she has been focusing on wireless data
communications technologies including Wi-Fi, WiMAX and the Fixed-
Mobile Convergence (FMC) / Internet Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
protocols being developed at 3GPP. Fanny has extensive experience
with intellectual property strategy and patenting process. She has
been awarded 4 patents.
Fanny holds a BA/CS and BS/EE from Columbia University.