| Professor Demetres D Kouvatsos |
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BIOGRAPHY
Professor Demetres Kouvatsos is the Head of the Networks and Performance Engineering (PERFORM) Research Group, Department of Computing, School of Informatics. Over the years he has pioneered new and cost-effective analytic methodologies, based on queueing theoretic concepts and the information theoretic principles of maximum entropy & minimum relative entropy, for the approximate analysis of arbitrary queueing network models (QNMs) as applied to the performance evaluation and engineering of computer telecommunication networks. He has directed several Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK), European Union (EU) and industrial research projects and he is the author or co-author of many papers as well as the editor of research books and special journal issues in the performance modelling field. His latest technical interests include traffic modelling based on batch renewal processes and advanced analytic techniques for the performance modelling, congestion control and optimisation of ad hoc wireless networks, 3G & 4G mobile switch architectures, all optical networks and the Internet.
Professor Kouvatsos was the Chairman of seven IFIP Working Conferences on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM & IP Networks (ATM & IP 93-98, 2000) and the Co-Chairman of the 3rd and 4th International Workshops on "Queueing Networks with Finite Capacity" (1995, 2000). He also served as the Technical Track Chairman of the "Analytical and Numerical Modelling Techniques" Conference of ESM '98 and as a program co-chair for the IFIP Working Conference ATM & IP 01. More recently, he acted as the General Chair of HET-NETs 03, the 1st International Working Conference on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks (2003) which was staged under the auspices of the EU Network of Excellence (NoE) Euro-NGi and the support of several industrial and academic organisations worldwide. Moreover, he is the co-leader of the WP.JRA.5.5 of Euro-NGi on Numerical, Simulation and Analytic Methodologies. His professional associations include memberships with the IFIP Working Group WG6.2 on Network and Inter-network Architectures and WG 6.3 on the Performance of Computer Networks. Moreover, he is a founder member of the UK Performance Engineering Specialist Group of British Computer Society (BCS). He is also an elected member of the EPSRC College and the Recipient of the IFIP Silver Core Award.
Professor Kouvatsos was the Chairman of seven IFIP Working Conferences on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM & IP Networks (ATM & IP 93-98, 2000) and the Co-Chairman of the 3rd and 4th International Workshops on "Queueing Networks with Finite Capacity" (1995, 2000). He also served as the Technical Track Chairman of the "Analytical and Numerical Modelling Techniques" Conference of ESM '98 and as a program co-chair for the IFIP Working Conference ATM & IP 01. More recently, he acted as the General Chair of HET-NETs 03, the 1st International Working Conference on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks (2003) which was staged under the auspices of the EU Network of Excellence (NoE) Euro-NGi and the support of several industrial and academic organisations worldwide. Moreover, he is the co-leader of the WP.JRA.5.5 of Euro-NGi on Numerical, Simulation and Analytic Methodologies. His professional associations include memberships with the IFIP Working Group WG6.2 on Network and Inter-network Architectures and WG 6.3 on the Performance of Computer Networks. Moreover, he is a founder member of the UK Performance Engineering Specialist Group of British Computer Society (BCS). He is also an elected member of the EPSRC College and the Recipient of the IFIP Silver Core Award.
GRANTS:
Current, and significant recent, funded projects
- Information Technologies Society "IST-2001-32392" EU Programme: "Generic Evaluation Platform for Services Inter-operability and Networks (IASON)", EU Consortium: SIEMENS AG, ALCATEL, 4PLUS Technologies, TELETEL Telecommunications & IT, SOLINET GmbH, VODAFONE and University of Bradford (UoB - Demetres Kouvatsos, Principal Investigator): ~ 2M Euros in total, ~ 100K to UoB (Feb. 2002 - Jan. 2004).
- EU Network of Excellence (NoE) : "Design and Dimensioning of the 3rd Generation Internet - Towards Convergent Multi-Service Networks (Euro-3Gi)". The NoE Euro-NGi consortium includes 57 of the very best EU academic and industrial research organisations in the field with a total grant of 5M Euros ~ 100 Euros to UoB. The PERFORM research group (Demetres Kouvatsos, Principal Investigator) plays a leading role in two main work-packages (WPs), namely WP.JRA.5.5: "Numerical, Simulation and Analytic Methodologies" and WP.SEA.6.1: "The HET-NETs International Conference" and a prominent role in several ,other WPs towards establishing EU-wide research integration and collaboration, dissemination and spreading of excellence worldwide. The NoE Consortium has been awarded 5M euros (initial budget for the Performance Modelling and Engineering (PME) Research Group, UoB: 87K Euros).
Awards and Recognition:
- Member of EPSRC College, UK
- Recipient of the IFIP Silver Core Award
- Member of IFIP Working Group WG6.2 on Network and Inter-network Architectures
- Member of IFIP Working Group WG6.3 on the Performance of Computer Networks
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES:
- General Chair of 1st IFIP Working Conference on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks (ATM 1993)
- General Chair of 2nd IFIP Working Conference on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks (ATM 1994)
- General Chair of 3rd IFIP Working Conference on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks (ATM 1995)
- General Chair of 4th IFIP Working Conference on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks (ATM 1996)
- General Chair of 5th IFIP Working Conference on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks (ATM 1997)
- General Chair of 6th IFIP Working Conference on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks (ATM 1998)
- Program Co-Chair of 7th IFIP Working Conference on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM&IP Networks (ATM&IP 1999)
- General Chair of 8th IFIP Working Conference on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM&IP Networks (ATM&IP 2000)
- Program Co-Chair of 9th IFIP Working Conference on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of ATM&IP Networks (ATM&IP 2001)
- General Chair of 1st International Working Conference on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks (HET-NETs '03)
- General Chair of 2nd International Working Conference on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks (HET-NETs '04)
- General Chair of 3rd International Working Conference on the Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks (HET-NETs '05)
- Co-Chair of 3rd International Workshop on "Queueing Networks with Finite Capacity" (QNETs 1995)
- Co-Chair of 4th International Workshop on "Queueing Networks with Finite Capacity" (QNETs 2000)
- Programme Co-Chair of the "Analytical and Numerical Modelling Techniques" Conference of ESM 1998
- Co-Chair of UK Performance Engineering Workshop (UKPEW 1997)
- Co-Leader of the Working Package WP.JRA.5.5 of the EU Network of Excellence (NoE) Euro-NGi on Numerical, Simulation and Analytic Methodologies
RESEARCH STAFF:
- Dr Is-Haka Mkwawa (Research into optimal broadcasting and multicasting in interconnection networks)
- Mr Kevin Smith (Research into analysis of queueing networks with blocking)
- Mr Athanasios Tsokanos (Research into the performance modelling and evaluation of optical networks)
RESEARCH STUDENTS:
- Mrs Salam Assi, PhD (Project: Performance of networks with wormhole routing)
- Miss Shafinaz Buruhanudeen, PhD (Project: Performance modelling of ad hoc
routing protocols (with Mr J.E. Mellor) - Mr Sundaramoorthy Kannan, MPhil (Project: Performance modelling of MAC contention in ad hoc wireless networks
- Miss Wie Li, MPhil (Project: Queueing systems and networks with batch renewal input (with Dr R.J. Fretwell)
- Mr Yue Li, MPhil (Project: Performance modelling of mobile networks (with Dr.I. Awan)
- Mr Constantinos Papadopoulos, PhD (Project: Queueing systems with self-similar traffic)
- Mr Neelkamal Paresh Shah, MPhil (Project: Hand-over mechanisms for mobile networks (with Dr I. Awan)
- Mr Sotiris Tantos, PhD (Project: QNMs with shared buffers and time-out mechanisms)
- Mr Karim Hammoud, MPhil (Project: Software Performance Engineering)
- Mr George Thanos, MPhil (Project: Performance Related Security in Heterogeneous N
