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About the Authors| Alberto Leon-Garcia is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto where he holds the Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Computer Networks and Innovation. He was also Chief Technical Officer and cofounder of AcceLight Networks Inc. where he led the development of a terabit multiservice optical switch. In 1999 Dr. Leon-Garcia became an IEEE fellow for "For contributions to multiplexing and switching of integrated services traffic".
At the University of Toronto, Dr. Leon-Garcia was the first holder of the Nortel Institute Chair in Network Architecture and Services. In 1998 he founded the Master of Engineering in Telecommunications program. Dr. Leon-Garcia has proudly supervised more than sixty graduate and postgraduate students.
Dr. Leon-Garcia is the author of the textbooks Probability and Random Processes for Electrical Engineering (Addison-Wesley), and Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures (McGraw-Hill), coauthored with Dr. Indra Widjaja.Indra Widjaja received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering on high-speed packet switching architectures from the University of Toronto in 1992. Since 2001, he has been a researcher at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies.
Dr. Widjaja's current research interests include traffic engineering, architectures for cost-effective transport networks, and high-speed packet switching. He has extensive publication in technical journals and conferences and holds several patents in switching architectures. He is also an active member of IETF and IEEE.
In 1993, Dr. Widjaja performed research on traffic management at the Teletraffic Research Center in Adelaide, Australia. From 1994 to 1997, he was Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona where he taught courses in Computer Networking, Computer Architecture, and Digital Telephony, and conducted research in communication networks. He was also a Technical Consultant to Motorola and Lucent Technologies. From 1997 to 2001, he was with Fujitsu Network Communications where he worked on the architecture definitions and requirements for core switch, access switch, and transport products. |
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