The IEEE North Jersey Communications and Signal Processing
Chapters together with NJIT's ECE Graduate Student Club
jointly sponsor the talk "TCP over ATM."
The speaker will be Nirwan Ansari from NJIT.


TITLE: TCP over ATM

About the Talk: 

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) has been the predominant choice
in today's Local Area Networks (LANs), and is essentially the standard
in data communications. While the industry is debating over several
emerging technologies in providing various looming services, it is
imminent that ATM must provide backward compatibility in accommodating
TCP traffic efficiently in order to be considered as a viable
competitive option in the LAN arena. During the pursuit for technical
and marketing supremacy among various technologies, this talk attempts
to shed some light on various issues in TCP over ATM: TCP over UBR, and
TCP over ABR. Performance comparison of TCP traffic running on
different rate based ABR flow control is also presented.

About the Speaker
Nirwan Ansari received the B.S.E.E. (summa cum laude) from NJIT in 1982,
the M.S.E.E. from the University of Michigan in 1983, and the Ph.D. degree
from Purdue University in 1988 upon which he joined the ECE Department of NJIT,
where he is a Professor and the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. His
current research interests include broadband networks, distributed and
adaptive detection in CDMA, computational intelligence, and nonlinear
signal processing. He is the chair of the North Jersey Chapter of the
IEEE Communications Society which received the 1996 Chapter of the Year
Award. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a special feature editor and
an associate technical editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine, and
he serves in several IEEE committees. He authored with E. Hou
Computational Intelligence for Optimization, 1997, and edited with
B. Yuhas Neural Networks in Telecommunications, 1994,
both published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Time: 7:15pm (pizza and pop start at 6:45pm), Thursday, April 2, 1998.
Place: NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark.
Information: Hongya Ge (973) 642-4990 or Yunqing Shi (973) 596-3510.
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