[Nets-seminars] Talk, today 4:00pm GS/302

[Richard G. Clegg]

Don't forget about today's talk by Professor Erol Gelenbe of Imperial 
College DoC.

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Professor in the Dennis Gabor Chair, Imperial College London
http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/gelenbe

  Abstract:  We present the design of a packet network where paths are 
dynamically selected based on quality of service (QoS) metrics that can be 
specified by the users of the network or by the network's access points. 
The approach uses on-line measurement associated with the traffic itself, 
and reinforcement learning throughout the nodes of the network, to try to 
satisfy the users' QoS objectives. The talk will present numerous 
measurement studies of this approach on a large laboratory test-bed. The 
seminar is based on our recent paper in the Communications of the ACM (July 
2009), which integrates different aspects of our research including network 
design, performance evaluation models and methods, and probability models 
of neuronal networks.

About the speaker: Erol Gelenbe graduated from the Middle East Technical 
University (Ankara) and was elected to professorial chairs successively at 
the University of Liege (Belgium) at the age of 27, then the University of 
Paris Sud-Orsay, the University of Paris V, Duke University, University of 
Central Florida, and Imperial College. He has graduated some 50 PhD 
students, many of whom are quite prominent in France, Greece, China, 
Turkey, and North and South America. A Fellow of IEEE and ACM, he won the 
ACM SIGMETRICS Life-Time Achievement Award for his contributions to 
probability models of computer and network performance in 2008. He was the 
first Computer Scientist to win the Grand Prix France-Telecom of the French 
Academy of Sciences in 1996. He is a Commander of Merit of Italy, an 
Officer of Merit of France and has received several "honoris causa" 
doctorates. He is a member of the French National Academy of Engineering, 
the Turkish Academy of Sciences, and of Academia Europaea.
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Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/