The Internet from a Teletraffic Perspective:Future Directions and Challenges

The Internet from a Teletraffic Perspective:

Future Directions and Challenges

16 January 2009 (Friday) 10.30 am – 11.30 am

Lecture Theatre 25, South Spine, Basement 2, between S1 and S2

Nanyang Technological University

Speaker: Professor Moshe Zukerman

Visiting NTU as a Michael Fam Endowed Professor from the Electronic Engineering Department, City University of Hong Kong

Abstracts

This talk begins with a general overview on the growth of Internet traffic and a short tutorial on fundamental principles underpinning the effects of traffic behaviour on network performance, quality of service provision and efficiency. Considering the power constraint on Internet growth, the profile of Internet traffic and the high utilization achievable by dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), conclusion can be drawn about efficient design of telecommunications network based on increasing the role of circuit switching in the future Internet.

Biography

Professor Moshe Zukerman received his B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management and his M.Sc. in Operation Research from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of California Los Angeles in 1985. Dr. Zukerman was an independent consultant with IRI Corporation and a post-doctoral fellow at UCLA during 1985-1986. During 1986-1997 he served in Telstra Research Laboratories (TRL), first as a research engineer and between 1988-1997 as a project leader managing a team of researchers providing expert advice to Telstra on network design and traffic engineering. During 1997-2008 he was with The University of Melbourne responsible for promoting and expanding telecommunications research and teaching, first as a senior research fellow and between 2001-2008 as a professor. In Dec 2008, he joined City University of Hong Kong where he is a Chair Professor of Information Engineering and a Group Leader. He has served on the editorial boards of various journals such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE Communications Magazine. Prof. Zukerman has over 200 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings, has been awarded several national and international patents, two conference best paper awards and honorary Professorships at CCNU, Wuhan; CityU, Hong Kong; and BJTU, Beijing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has served as a member and Chair of the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award Committee.

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