Oscar Somarriba Jarquín, received his title of Electronic engineer from the National University of Engineering (UNI), Managua, Nicaragua, in 1989, and the Technical Licentiate of Engineering degree in wireless digital systems from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1996. He also founded and headed the Telecommunications department at UNI from 1989-1992. His professional experience includes, the position as chief of staff and maintenance supervisor of the INTELSAT earth’s station in Managua, consultant work and training courses for several national and international agencies, among them: The National Telecomm Company (ENITEL), The National Power Utility (ENEL), The Nicaraguan Geophysical Institute (INETER), COCESNA, BELLSOUTH, LIO/UN, and the World Bank. His main research interest is in the area of data and computer communication networks with especial emphasis on autonomous radio networks and wireless ad hoc networks. He has conducted research on multihop ad hoc networks for rural-area networks. He is currently a PhD. Candidate at KTH.

 Somarriba, O., "Packet Delay in multihop radio nerworks in rough terrain", TRITA-IT-R 95-13, Dept. of Teleinformatics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockolm, Sweden. April 1995.

Somarriba, O.,"Multihop Packet Radio Systems in Rough Terrain", Licentiate thesis, TRITA-S3-RST-9506. ISSN 1400-9137. Radio Communication Systems, Department S3. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. October 95.

Somarriba, O.,”Redes de Radiopaquetes multihop”, CONCAPAN XVI (IEEE Regional Conference). Panama city, Panama. November 96

Somarriba O.,”Wireless Data Networks”, CONCAPAN XIX (IEEE Regional Conference). Managua, Nicaragua. November 1999

  Somarriba, O., “Multi-hop Radio Networks in Rough Terrain: Some Traffic Sensitive MAC Protocols”. Swedish workshop on Wireless Ad hoc Networks 2001, Stockholm, Sweden. March 2001

  Somarriba, O., “Multi-hop Radio Networks in Rough Terrain”, IEEE CONCAPAN XXI. Guatemala city, Guatemala. November 2001.

  Somarriba, O., “Traffic Sensitive MAC Algorithms for Multi-hop Radio Networks in Rough Terrain”, GlobeCom 2001. San Antonio, Texas, USA. November 2001.

  Somarriba, O., “On constrained Power Control in S-TDMA in Multi-hop Ad Hoc Radio Networks ”. Second Swedish workshop on Wireless Ad hoc Networks 2002, Stockholm, Sweden. March 2002.

Somarriba, O., Giles, T., “Transmission Power Control for Spatial TDMA in Wireless Radio Networks ”. 4th IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks 2002. Stockholm, Sweden. September 2002.

Somarriba, O., “Transmisión Power and Rate Control for Spatial TDMA in Wireless Radio Networks ”. Third Scandinavian Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc Networks 2003, Stockholm, Sweden. May 6-7, 2003.

Somarriba, O., Giles, T., “Scheduling for Variable Power and Rate Control for Spatial TDMA in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”. 2003 Wireless Networking Symposium (WNCG). Austin, Texas, USA. October 22-24, 2003.