Tutorial Lecturers Biographies

Tutorial #4 - QoS Within the Network: Service Differentiation and Other Issues
Jim Roberts, CNET, France-Telecom
Jim Roberts received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Surrey, UK in 1970 and was awarded a Doctorate by the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France in 1987. Since graduating, he has worked in the field of teletraffic engineering and performance evaluation, with the British Post Office from 1971 to 1975, with the French company SOCOTEL from 1975 to 1977, and with the Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications since 1978. His current research interests are mainly concerned with performance evaluation and the design of traffic controls for multi-service networks. This research is conducted with the objective of defining cost effective procedures for multi-service network engineering using ATM, IP or other technologies.
He was chairman of successive European COST collaborative projects on multi-service network design and performance evaluation from 1985 to 1996. The final report of the latest project COST 257 has been published by Springer-Verlag under the title ``Broadband Network Teletraffic" (LNCS Vol 1155). Jim Roberts is an active participant in events of the International Teletraffic Congress and was chairman of the Technical Programme Committee of ITC 14. He was also programme chair of the IEEE Workshop ATM'97 and is a programme committee member of many international conferences. He is a member of the editorial team of the journals Computer Networks and ISDN Systems and Annals of Performance Analysis and is a past editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has published numerous papers in the fields of teletraffic and multi-service networking.
He is an associate rapporteur for ITU Study Group 2 activities on traffic engineering standards for B-ISDN with particular responsibility for a recommendations on traffic control and dimensioning methods.

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