- Senior Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-3719
- Email: p-cantrell@tamu.edu
- Office: WEB 333D
- Research Website

Educational Background
- Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology – 1981
- M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology – 1971
- B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology – 1970
Research Interests
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- Computer communications and networking
- Multimedia networking
- Video conferencing over LANs and WANs with multilayer coding over multiple multicast groups
Awards & Honors
- Tenneco Meritorious Teaching Award – 1992
- Texas A&M Faculty Senate Speaker – 1995-96
Selected Publications
- T. B. Brown, P. E. Cantrell, and J. D. Gibson, "Multicast layered video teleconferencing: overcoming bandwidth heterogeneity,'' in Proceedings, First Annual Telecom. Conference, pp. 145-152, Austin, TX, October 1996.
- T. Brown, S. Sazzad, C. Schroeder, P. E. Cantrell, and J. D. Gibson, "Packet Video for Heterogeneous Networks using CU-SeeMe,'' in Proceedings, ICIP'96, pp. 9--12, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 1996.
- M. G. Kyeong, P. E. Cantrell, and T. A. Dowling, "The effect of discrete TOA randomization on capture phenomenon in DS/SS local radio communications,'' in Proceedings, IEEE ICCS '94, Singapore, November 1994.
- M. G. Kyeong, P. E. Cantrell, and T. A. Dowling, "DS/SS indoor wireless communications with near-perfect multi-packet capture,'' in Proceedings, IEEE ICUPC '94, San Diego, CA, September 1994.