Networking Services: QoS, Signaling, Processes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781495437489)

Harry G. Perros is a Professor of Computer Science at NC State University, an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor, and a Fellow of IEEE. He is also the Program Coordinator of the Master of Science degree in Computer Networks at NC State University. He received the B.Sc. degree in Mathematics in 1970 from Athens University, Greece, the M.Sc. degree in Operational Research with Computing from Leeds University, England, in 1971, and the Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, in 1975. He has held visiting faculty positions at INRIA, Rocquencourt, France, NORTEL, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, University of Paris 6, France, Victoria University, New Zealand, and Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications., Beijing, China. He has published over 200 papers in the area of performance modeling of computer and communication systems, and he has organized several national and international conferences. He has also published three print books (Queueing Networks with Blocking: Exact and Approximate Solutions, Oxford Press 1994, An Introduction to ATM Networks, Wiley 2001, and Connection-Oriented Networks: SONET/SDH, ATM, MPLS, and Optical Networks, Wiley, 2005), and an e-book (Computer Simulation Techniques - The Definitive Introduction, 2009) that can be download from his web site free of charge. In 1995, he founded the IFIP Working Group 6.3 on the Performance of Communication Systems, and he was the chairman from 1995 to 2002. He is currently an associate Editor of several Journals including the Performance Evaluation Journal, and the Telecommunications Systems Journal. His current research interests are in the area of networking services, QoS, and queueing theory. In his free time he likes to play the bouzouki and also go sailing on his beloved Aegean, a Pearson 31.