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  Topics in Networking Research *

  Mon, May 12, 2008 @ 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM

  Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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  SPEAKER: Dr. Debasis Mitra
  Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent,
  Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USAABSTRACT: What are the big movements in networking that researchers should heed? A standout is the global spread of communities of interest (the networking analogue of the flat world) and their need for "dynamic virtual networks" that support rich applications requiring resources from several domains. There is a definite imperative for inter-networking, i.e., resource sharing across multiple domains. This challenge has many facets, ranging from the organizational, e.g., different, possibly competing, owners to the technical, e.g., different technologies. Yet another key characteristic of the emerging networking environment is that the service provider is required to handle ever-increasing uncertainty in demand, both in volume and time. Thus, inter-networking and uncertainty management are important challenges of emerging networking that deserve attention from the research community. We describe research that touch on both topics. In the first part, we consider a model of data-optical inter-networking. In the second part, we present a framework for stochastic traffic management in which traffic demands are uncertain. We consider various measures of risk in networking and, having selected one, we obtain results on the optimization of an objective which is a risk-adjusted measure of network revenue. *Joint work with Qiong Wang and Anwar Walid, Bell Labs, Murray HillBIOGRAPHY: Debasis Mitra is Vice President in the Chief Scientist's Office of Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent. He is responsible for global research partnerships and academic relations. From 1999-2007 as Vice President of the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Research Center he directed activities in fundamental mathematics, algorithms, complex systems analysis and optimization, statistics, learning theory, information and communications sciences, and industrial mathematics.Dr. Mitra is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Bell Labs Fellow and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is a recipient of the 1998 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award, the 1993 Steven O. Rice Prize Paper Award and the 1982 Guillemin-Cauer Prize Paper Award of the IEEE. He is also the recipient of awards from the 1995 ACM Sigmetrics/Performance Conference, the Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK) and the Bell System Technical Journal. He has been a member of the editorial boards of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, the IEEE Transactions of Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems and Queueing Systems (QUESTA). During 2002-2005 he served as the area editor responsible for Telecommunications and Networking for the journal Operations Research. He holds more than 15 patents. In 2003 he served as the Chair of the Telecom review panel of the N.J. Commission on Jobs Growth and Economic Development. He has been McKay Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Albert Winsemius Professor at the Nanyang Technical University in Singapore and in 2005 he was a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. During 2006 he chaired the Mathematics Advisory Committee of the Science Foundation of Ireland. He serves on the Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies.HOST: Professor Urbashi Mitra, ubli@usc.edu

  Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

  Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

  Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos