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/ US 602428, allows a
service provider to support certain customer needs based on network-based
services. http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6021263/fulltext.html,
also Canadian Patent Number 2,196,006, March 20, 2001.
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Patent 2: 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 SLA. http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7145871/fulltext.html
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Patent 3: 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/fulltext.html.
Also see United States Patent number 7,760,759, issued on 2010-07-20. http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7760759/fulltext.html,
and European Patent # 071093249-1244, July 24, 2007.
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Patent 4: Integration of Gateway Functions in Access
Systems, filed on 05/09/2002, (Priority US/02.11.01/USA 52846) European
Patent Office Patent no. 02019946.9 on 29/10/2002, integrates the access Media
Gateway (MG) functions in a DLC Central Office/Remote Terminal for Class 5
replacement in Next Generation Network.
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Patent 5:
"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, in progress.
The URL listing a table for the above & references
is: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6021263/fulltext.html
AWARDS
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IEEE Life
Senior Member, 2008.
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IEEE
Millennium Award for contributions to IEEE, 2000.
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IEEE Section
awards for contributions to IEEE for
1996, 7, 8, 9, and 2000.
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AT&T
Standards Recognition Award, one of
the ten award recipients at AT&T, 1997.
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Fellowship
Award, University of Pennsylvania.
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IBM
Service Award, Lausanne,
Switzerland, 1969.
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Full
Scholarship from US for the undergraduate work at the American University of
Beirut.
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AUB Honor List during the undergraduate study at the American
University of Beirut.
DEGREES
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Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, August
1974.
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M.S. in
Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, December
1971.
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B.S. in
Electrical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, June 1966.
INDUSTRIAL,
ACADEMIC, AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
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2003-present -
Adjunct Professor at the Sonoma State University, Engineering Sciences Dept., Rohnert Park, CA,
teaching
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2008-present -
Metroserv Communications, CA
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2006-2008 – Consultant with Detecon in
U.S.A. for T-Com/Deutsche Telecom (DT). Developed comprehensive documents and
an extensive set of slides on the following topics:
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2000-2003,
Lead Systems Architect, Alcatel USA,
Petaluma, CA – Did systems engineering and forward looking work in the
following areas:
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1984-2000,
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff / Principal
Technical Staff Member, AT&T
Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ – Did forward looking work and analysis
on the following projects and lead the teams for the AT&T network
implementations:
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1993-2000 -
Adjunct Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, Hoboken, NJ, taught Information Networks I & II graduate
courses.
ACADEMIC
& INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO MY WORK AT BELL LABS
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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, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, taught the
undergraduate courses including Electronics Systems and Devices + lab, Logic
Design and Digital Electronics + lab and Switching Theory.
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Invited
scholar, Institute fur Physikalische Elektronik, Universitat Stuttgart, West Germany (Summer 1976), research on Coded apertures for 3-dimentional imaging
and computed tomography for medical diagnostics. German DAAD
organization funded the project.
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IBM
Field Engineer (before
graduate studies), 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
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AT&T
Principal Representative to the ATM Forum, an international standards body,
1995-2000.
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AT&T
Delegation Manager of the ATM/BISDN Strategy Group at AT&T Bell Labs,
1995-2000.
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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 Singapore.
AT&T Bell Laboratories owned the project and the graduates were trained to
bring up the datacom/telecom software industries that
started in Singapore then.
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Was one of the 3
board members of the Shiraz Technical School, 1974-78.
This organization operated under the School of Engineering of Shiraz
University, Iran, and trained the electronic and computer technicians for the
industrial and military organizations in Iran. The organization worked
hand-in-hand with the industry to let the students get hands-on experience and
make sure that the students get the proper training/education.
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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 Shiraz University
departments and its five hospitals in Shiraz, Iran.
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Designed and
operated several laboratories in the areas of analog and digital electronics,
microprocessors, 1974-78.
AFFILIATIONS
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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, San Francisco, CA, Feb 21,
2006.
3. Voice
over IP – An Overview, Dept. of Math & CS, Cal State, East Bay, January
16, 2006.
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 USA, Petaluma, CA, February 13, 2003.
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, Middletown, NJ.
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),
Iran Telecom Research Center & Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, May 16-19,
1999.
11. Trends
in Internet Protocol Data Networking, an invited talk presented at the 7th
Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE99), Iran Telecom Research
Center & Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, May
16-19, 1999.
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, Athens,
Greece.
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, Dallas, TX.
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, Alexandria, Egypt.
17. A
Review on OSI Connection- and Connectionless-mode, Proceeding of the 2nd
International Conference on Communication Systems' 90, Singapore, November 5-9,
1990.
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 University of Tehran
Press (in Persian), 1990.
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. Film-recorded
CT analysis of contrast excretion in rats with myoglobinuric
acute renal failure, presented at the 28th Annual of Association of University
Radiologist, Tucson, AZ, March 25-28, 1980.
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, Rochester, NY, May 6-10,
1979.
27. Imaging
of buried objects using microwave holograph, a technical presentation to
the EE Dept., University of Sydney, Australia, April, 1981.
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, Shiraz, Iran, on Editorial Board.
32. Microwave
holography employing circularly-scanned synthetic aperture, Ph.D.
Dissertation., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Aug.
1974.
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, Vermont Academy, Saxtons
Rivers, VT, August 6-11, 1972.
36. Video
display and focus-assist device of CYDAC, a flying-spot scanning microscope,
M.S. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 1971.
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.