Handbook of Optimization in Telecommunications








Contributing Author

Philippe Nain

Handbook of Optimization in Telecommununications
Philippe Nain received the Maîtrise Es-Sciences in Mathematics in 1978, the Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies in Statistics in 1979, and the Doctorat de 3éme Cycle, specializing in Modeling of Computer Systems in 1981 from the University of Paris XI, Orsay, France.  In 1987, he received the Doctorat d'Etat in Applied Mathematics from the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France. Since December 1981, he has been with INRIA where he is currently the head of the research project  Maestro devoted to the modeling of computer systems  and telecommunications networks. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Massachusetts (1993-94), at the University of Maryland (1987), and at North Carolina State University (1988). His research interests include modeling and performance evaluation of communication networks. He is an Associate Editor of Performance Evaluation and Operations Research Letters,  and was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He was a co-program chair of the ACM Sigmetrics 2000 conference, the general chair of Performance 2005, and he is a member of  IFIP WG 7.3.