INDUSTRIAL, ACADEMIC,
AND RESEARCH
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
PUBLICATIONS, INVITED PRESENTATIONS
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ATM FORUM
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Patent 1:
"Management of ATM Virtual Circuits with Resource Reservation Protocol
(RSVP)", United States Patent 6,021,263 issued on
2000-02-01, and US/16.02.96/
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Patent 2:
"Method of establishing a redundant mesh network using minimum number of
links," US/12.05.98/USA 76444, provides network redundancy with minimum
link costs in an ATM network against failures.
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Patent 3:
"Automatic Router Configuration Based on Real-Time Traffic Measurements
and Service Level Agreement (SLA)," United States Patent 7,145,871 issued
on, 12/5/2006, and US/02.03.02/USA 90138, allows automatic configuration of
network elements based on real-time traffic measurements and
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Patent 4:
"End-to-End Prioritized Data Delivery on Networks Using IP over Frame
Relay," United States Patent number 6,993,043 issued on 2006-01-31, allows a Frame Relay service provider
and an enterprise network manager to provide end-to-end QOS for critical
applications. http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6993043.html.
Also European Patent # 071093249-1244, July 24, 2007.
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Patent 5:
"Integration of Gateway Functions in Access Systems," submitted to US
Patent Office in 10/2002, integrates the access Media Gateway (MG) functions in
a DLC Central Office/Remote Terminal for Class 5 replacement in Next Generation
Network.
+ “IEEE Life Senior Member,” 2008.
+ “IEEE Millennium Award for contributions to IEEE, 2000”.
+ “IEEE Section awards for contributions to IEEE” for 1996, 7, 8, 9, and 2000.
+ “AT&T Standards Recognition Award,” one of the ten award recipients at AT&T, 1997.
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“Fellowship Award,
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“IBM Service
Award”,
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“Full Scholarship from US for the
undergraduate work at the
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“AUB Honor List” during the
undergraduate study at the
DEGREES
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Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering,
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M.S. in Electrical Engineering,
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B.S. in Electrical Engineering, American
INDUSTRIAL, ACADEMIC, AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
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2006-Presesnt
– Consultant with Detecon in
– “Toward a Unified DT IdM/AAA Strategy” Developed the strategy for Identity Management and Authentication, Authorization, & Accounting for Deutsche Telecom national and international single-sign-on e-commerce and online services. Also provided a set of recommendations and plan of work.
– “Improving
Access Networks for IPTV” Addressed the state of broadband access,
provisioning concepts, and deployment of Ethernet and passive optical network and
in-house cabling used in
– “Increasing
the Reach of VDSL2” Addressed the state of dynamic spectrum management,
VDSL2 DSLAMS, VDSL2 planning principles for in-house cabling in
– "SIP
& IMS Fundamentals for Cingular Wireless" Developed a training slide
set on the Session Initiation Protocol - IP Multimedia Subsystem targeted for
Cingular in
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2003-present
– Adjunct Professor at the
– Graduate courses: "Data Communications + lab”, “Network Architecture and Protocols + lab”, and “Linear Systems Theory” covering the technologies for the physical layer, wireless, Ethernet/IEEE802.3, switching and routing algorithms, IPv4/v6, TCP/UDP, DNS, FTP, SNMP, SNMP, web/HTTP, and security.
– Undergraduate courses “Digital Circuit & Logic Design”, “Introduction to Electronics”, “Linear Systems Theory”, and “Introduction to Engineering”.
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2000-2003,
Lead Systems Architect, Alcatel
- Lead a group to do the market research & feasibility study for the Alcatel access product (Litespan) to provide VOIP, and developed a comprehensive report. Compared the available chips for VOIP and designed a gateway card for Litespan. Analyzed the scalability issues for Litespan to replace the local PSTN switch.
- Developed the architecture for IPTV (broadcast and video on demand).
- Did the feasibility study for BPONs and GPON for their implementation in Litespan.
- Did the reliability model and calculated the reliability for major components and Litespan.
- Presented Litespan with VOIP capability for Class 5 replacement with the VOIP-capable-Litespans together with a softswitch and discussed the scalability issues to the customer (SBC).
- Wrote the responses to the customers’ RFIs and RFPs for service-provider clients.
- Developed/presented many technical presentations/tutorials on the BPON, GPON, VOIP, GFP technologies.
- Developed/presented many technical presentations/tutorials on Generic Frame Procedure (GFP), Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS), and Virtual Concatenation (VC) technologies.
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1984-2000,
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff / Principal
Technical Staff Member, AT&T Bell Laboratories,
– Developed the prototype enterprise network to provide IP QOS for real-time applications against bursty non-critical data, independent of the underlying link technology using packet labeling, differentiation/prioritization techniques, and reservation request protocol.
– Developed the prototype for Enterprise Frame Relay Network QOS Management to guarantee the response time of critical applications at network access links. This project needed performance analysis and bandwidth measurements.
– Used of router queuing and bandwidth manager to provide QOS for Internet packets transport network.
– Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Traffic Engineering.
– Use of Request Reservation Protocol to control QOS for Multimedia Conferencing applications.
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AT&T Principal Representative to the ATM
Forum for ATM/Broadband ISDN Standardization.
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Developed ten technical short courses on
different areas of Data Networking and taught the courses to the AT&T
software and hardware developers, systems engineers, data network designers,
account executives.
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1993-2000
- Adjunct Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science,
ACADEMIC & INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO MY WORK AT
+ Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, taught “Microprocessors + lab” and “Logic Design and Digital Electronics + lab” undergraduate courses.
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Associate
Professor (with tenure), Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
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Invited
scholar, Institute fur Physikalische Elektronik,
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IBM Field Engineer (after
undergraduate work), maintained and troubleshooting the IBM Main Frame System
360 Models 2065 and 2030 and all their many I/O devices. Received the
“IBM Service Award” for my outstanding work.
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPERIENCE
+ AT&T Principal Representative to the ATM Forum, an international standards body, 1995-2000.
+ AT&T Delegation Manager of the ATM/BISDN Strategy Group at AT&T Bell Labs, 1995-2000.
+ Chaired the "Computer Communications Societies Joint Chapter" of the NJ Coast Section (1995-2000).
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Designed the Data Communication curriculum for
the Singapore Telecommunications Institute, 1987-90, that trained the computer
and electrical engineers in
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Was one of the 3 board members of the Shiraz
Technical School, 1974-78. This organization operated under the
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Developed and headed the Electronic Center of
Shiraz University, 1980-83, to maintain and partly design the electronic and
electrical equipment of the
+ Designed and operated several laboratories in the areas of analog and digital electronics, microprocessors, 1974-78.
AFFILIATIONS
– Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Life Senior Member (since January 2008).
PUBLICATIONS, INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Note - Proprietary technical papers written at Alcatel and AT&T Bell Labs are not included.
1. “VoIP - Implementing the New Phone System,”
Depts., of EE & COEN, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara,
CA, March 2, 2006.
2.
“VoIP - Implementing the New Phone System,”
IEEE SF ComSoc Chapter,
3.
“Voice
over IP – An Overview,” Dept. of
4. “Voice Over IP (VOIP) – An Overview,“ ECE Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, September, 12, 2005.
5. "Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Networks (GPON) - Overview,” a half-day presentation to the R&D Group, Alcatel USA, Petaluma, CA, June 24, 2003.
6.
"Video Services over DSL," a half-day
presentation to the R&D Group, Alcatel
7. "Enterprise - Frame Relay Network Quality of Service (QOS) Management," an invited technical talk presented to the AT&T Global Network Services Organization, January 24, 2000, Harrison, NY.
8.
"IP QOS - Related to AT&T Network
Services," a half a day invited talk presented to the AT&T Network and
Computing Services Organization, October 7, 1999,
9. "IP QOS - An Overview," a half-day invited tutorial presented at the IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communications '99 Conference (ISCC '99), July 5-8, 1999, Red Sea Egypt.
10. "Technologies
and QOS Techniques for the Internet Protocol," a 1-day invited tutorial
presented at the 7th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE99),
11. "Trends
in Internet Protocol Data Networking," an invited talk presented at the
7th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE99),
12. "Multiprotocol over ATM Scenarios for an Enterprise Network," presented at CCC98 (Conference on Computer Communications), The City University of New York, Sept. 19, 1998.
13. "IP
over ATM with QOS," a half a day invited tutorial presented at the IEEE
Symposium on Computer and Communications'98 Conference, June 29, 1998,
14. "Scenarios
for control and data flows in Multi-protocol over ATM," an invited paper,
presented at the "Broadband Networking Technologies program of the
"Voice, Video, and Data Communications," Conference, sponsored by
SPIE, November 2-5, 1997,
15. "IP over ATM," a 1-day invited tutorial presented to the Korean Telecom engineers on October 19, 1997.
16. "IP
over ATM," a half-day invited tutorial presented at the IEEE Symposium on
Computer and Communications'97 Conference, June 28, 1997,
17. "A
Review on OSI Connection- and Connectionless-mode," Proceeding of the 2nd
International Conference on Communication Systems' 90,
18. "A Review of OSI - The New Data Communication Architecture, "Proceeding of the International Conference on Control and Modeling, Tehran, Iran, July 17-20, 1990.
19. "Digital
Electronics and Its Applications,” book published by
20. "Real-time
range and elevation finder,” Proc. IEEE, Vol. 72, No.12, Dec. 1984, pp 1821-22.
21. "Imaging with rotating slit aperture,” Medical Physics, 9 (3), May/June 1982, pp 324-339.
22. "Computed tomographic analysis of renal function in rats with myoglobinuric acute renal failure,” Nephron 28, 1981, pp 255-257.
23. "Coded-aperture imaging of Gamma-ray sources with an off-axis rotating slit,” Applied Optics, Dec. 15, 1980, pp 4186-4195.
24. "
25. "High resolution computed tomography of the normal rat nephrogram,” Investigative Radiology, March 1980, pp 148-154.
26. "Film
recorded magnification CAT assessment of nephrogram in normal rats,”
presented at the 27th Annual meeting of Association of University Radiologists,
27. "Imaging
of buried objects using microwave holograph,” a technical presentation to
the EE Dept.,
28. "Format generation for double circular scanners used in long-wave holography,” Journal of Acoustical Holography, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1979, pp 133-142.
29. "Microwave holographic subtraction for imaging of buried objects,” Proc. IEEE, Vol. 66, No. 1, Jan. 1978, pp. 94-96.
30. "Electronic wavefront subtraction in long-wave holography,” Proc. IEEE, Aug. 1975, pp 1258-60.
31. "Proceeding
of the Fifth Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering,” Oct. 27-30,
1975,
32. "Microwave
holography employing circularly-scanned synthetic aperture,” Ph.D.
Dissertation.,
33. "Focus-assist device for a flying-spot microscope,” IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. BME-20, No. 2, March 1973, pp 120-132.
34. "A focus-assist device for image analysis,” presented at Engineering in Medicine-Automatic Cytology,” VT, August 6-11, 1972.
35. "Engineering
in Medicine-Automatic Cytology,”
36. "Video
display and focus-assist device of CYDAC, a flying-spot scanning
microscope,” M.S. Thesis,
CONTRIBUTIONS TO
THE ATM FORUM
The following contributions were presented to the MPOA (Multi-Protocol over ATM) Working Group at the ATM Forum and were accepted:
1. ATMF96-1263 (based on my earlier contribution ATMF96-0977) - tilted "MPOA System Architecture Diagrams" proposes the diagrams for architecture and control/data interactions between components of MPOA v1.
2. ATMF96-1264 (based on my earlier contribution ATMF96-0711) - tilted "Scenarios for Control/Data Flows in MPOA" presents the data flow scenarios between pairs of End Systems using an example network configuration.
3. ATMF98-0299 - titled "QOS Extensions to MPOA" introduces IP QOS support to the MPOA implementation guide, i.e., mapping between IP QOS parameters and ATM QOS parameters for QOS-based Internet integrated services.
4. ATMF98-0329 - titled "Baseline Proposal of MPOAv1 Addendum for Frame Relay Links" extends MPOA capabilities to provide shortcuts between Frame Relay access nodes.
5. ATMF98-0366 - titled "QOS guaranteed Virtual Private Network (VPN) support by MPOA for Frame Relay" proposes to add VPN and QOS extensions to the MPOA for Frame Relay Links.
6. ATMF98-0474 - titled "Use of UNI B-HLI IE for Associating MPOA Shortcut VC with VPN ID" uses shortcuts for VPNs.
7. ATMF98-0633 - titled "Use of Interface ID encapsulation for Multiplexing FR connections on Frame Relay/ATM PVC Service Interworking model" helps IP/FR and IP/ATM interworking.
8. ATMF98-0634 - titled "Use of VPN ID encapsulation for Identifying and Multiplexing VPN's packets" allows multiplexing VPNs packets over an IP public Network.
9. ATMF98-0854 - titled "MPOA Enhancements for Supporting IP Differentiated Services" introduces DiffServ for MPOA QOS support.