The IEEE North Jersey Communication Chapter sponsors the talk
"Provisioning Quality of Service in Next-generation ATM Switches."
The speaker will be Fabio M. Chiussi from Bell Laboratories, Lucent
Technologies.

Provisioning Quality of Service in Next-generation ATM Switches

About the Talk: 

The new generation of ATM switches that is reaching the market
introduces a new level of sophistication in providing Quality-of-Service
(QoS) guarantees to individual Virtual Connections (VCs) with
widely-different characteristics. To assure that real-time applications
and best-effort traffic can coexist on the same network infrastructure,
the new switches feature per-VC queueing and elaborate packet scheduling
structures. In this talk, we give an overview of the recent advances in
scheduling algorithms and implementation techiques that have made it
economically possible to integrate these capabilities in the new
systems. We will also describe a number of other new powerful features
that these switches will provide in the areas of traffic management,
congestion control, and network management.

About the Speaker: 

Fabio M. Chiussi is a distinguished member of technical staff at Bell
Laboratories, Lucent Technologies in Holmdel, New Jersey, in the
High-Speed Networks Research Department. He holds a Degree in Electrical
Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Padua, Italy, and
M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
University; in addition, he holds an M. S. in Engineering Management
from Stanford University and a Ph. D. in Computer Science from the
University of Padua, Italy.

At Bell Laboratories, he has been conducting fundamental research in the
area of broadband telecommunication networks and has been leading the
architectural design and development of two generations of an
industry-leading chipset for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switches,
called the ATLANTA chipset. This chipset captures some of the advances
resulting from his research in the areas of ATM switch architectures,
congestion control (in particular, Available Bit Rate service in ATM
networks), traffic management (in particular, packet scheduling and
quality-of-service provisioning), and performance characterization of
ATM switches.

Dr. Chiussi has written more than 50 technical papers and holds 6
patents, with 14 more pending. He was named the 1997 Eta Kappa Nu
Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer.  His current research interests
include ATM switching, IP switching and routing, traffic management and
scheduling, congestion control, and integrated circuit design.

Time: 5:30pm (pizza and pop start at 5:00pm), Monday, May 4, 1998.
Place: NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark.
Information: Hongya Ge (973) 642-4990 or Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670.
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