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Thursday 6 February 2014

Computer networking a top down Approach 5th Edition by KUROSE ROSS

Computer networking a top down Approach 5th Edition by KUROSE ROSS
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Jim Kurose received a B.A. degree in physics from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Columbia University. He is currently Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Professor Kurose has been a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research, INRIA, Institut EURECOM , the University of Paris, the Laboaratory for Information, Network and Communication Sciences, andTechnicolor Research Labs. He has previously served in a number of campus administrative roles including Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Interim Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Executive Associate Dean of the College of Natural Sciences , and senior faculty advisor for science and engineering for the Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement.

His research interests include network protocols and architecture, network measurement, sensor networks, multimedia communication, and modeling and performance evaluation. Dr. Kurose has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has been active in the program committees for IEEE Infocom, ACM SIGCOMM, and ACM SIGMETRICS conferences for a number of years, and has served as Technical Program Co-Chair for these conferences. He has won several conference best paper awards and received the IEEE InfocomAchievement Award and the ACM Sigcomm Test of Time Award.

He is the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the National Technological University (8 times), the Outstanding Teacher Award from the UMass College of Natural Science and Mathematics, the Outstanding Teaching Award of the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools, and the IEEE Taylor Booth Education Medal. He was one of the founders of the Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative (CITI). He has twice received an IBM Faculty Development Award, and a Lilly Teaching Fellowship. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, the advisory council of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate at the National Science Foundation. He serves in the scientific advisory boards of Technicolor, IMDEA Networks in Madrid, and Laboaratory for Information, Network and Communication Sciences in Paris. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM.



Keith Ross is the Leonard J. Shustek Chair Professor in Computer Science at Polytechnic Institute of NYU. Before joining NYU-Poly in 2003, he was a professor at University of Pennsylvania (13 years) and a professor at Eurecom Institute (5 years). He was the Department Head of the CSE Department fromm 2008 to 2013. He received a B.S.E.E from Tufts University, a M.S.E.E. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Computer and Control Engineering from The University of Michigan.

Professor Ross has worked in security and privacy, peer-to-peer networking, Internet measurement, video streaming, multi-service loss networks, content distribution networks, queuing theory, and Markov decision processes. He is an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, recipient of the Infocom 2009 Best Paper Award (1,435 papers submitted), and recipient of 2008 and the 2011 Best Paper Awards for Multimedia Communications (awarded by IEEE Communications Society). His work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Bloomberg Television, Huffington Post, Fast Company, Ars Technia, and the New Scientist.

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