Publications

Co-Guest-Editor for IEEE Communication Magazine

• IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on "Advances in Virtual Private Networks,” co-guest-editor, Vol. 45, No. 4, April 2007.

Journal Papers (Authored/Co-authored)

• “The Evolution of Carrier Ethernet Services - Requirements and Deployment Case Studies,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 69-76, March 2008.
• “Inter-provider Quality of Services,” MIT white paper, November 2006.
• “Inter-provider IP-MPLS Services: Requirements, Implementations, and Challenges,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 119-128, June 2005.
• “LDP Failure Detection and Recovery,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 42, No.10, pp.117-123, Oct. 2004.
• "A structure-parameter-adaptive (SPA) neural network for the recognition of large character set,” Pattern Recognition, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 315-329, 1995.
• "Hierarchical classification and vector quantization with neural trees,” Neurocomputing Jour., pp. 119-139, 1993.
• "Competition based neural networks for assignment problems,” J. Comp. Sci. and Tech., Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 305-315, 1991.
• "Design of competition based neural networks for combinatorial optimization,” Int. Journal of Neural Systems, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 221-235,1990.
• "Running rule-based expert systems on parallel processors,” Knowledge-based Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 27-36, March 1989.
• "CODAR: General purpose design tool for rule-based engineering expert systems,” Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Eng., Vol. 2, pp. 76-82, April 1987.

Conference Papers and Presentations

• Hierarchical SDN for the Hyper-Scale, Hyper-Elastic Data Center and Cloud,” SOSR’15, Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on Software Defined Networking Research, Article No. 7, ISBN: 978-1-4503-3451-8, Santa Clara, CA, June 17, 2015. ACM digital library: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2775009.
• “HSDN - A New SDN-based Paradigm for Hyper-Scale Cloud/DC at Low Cost,” MPLS/SDN World Congress 2015, Paris, March 2015.
• “SDN and MPLS for DC,” SDN/MPLS 2014, Washington DC, to appear, Nov. 2014.
• “A Pragmatic View of SDN for Data Center Fabric and Data Center Interconnect,” NFV/SDN Summit 2014 and MPLS/SDN World Congress 2014, Paris, March, 2014.
• “SDN BGP Data Center Fabric,” SDN/MPLS 2013, Washington DC, Nov. 2013.
• “SDN Approach for L3VPN Enabled Virtual Private Cloud,” SDN Summit 2013, Paris, March 2013.
• “Scaling Multi-tenant Data Centers with BGP/MPLS VPNs,” MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2013, Paris, March 2013.
• “Data Center Architecture Design,” MPLS 2012, Washington DC, October 2012.
• “iOverlay – A Multi-Layer Architecture for IP/Optical Integration,” MPLS 2012, Washington DC, October 2012.
• “Cloud Networking with L3 VPNs,” Carrier Cloud Summit and SDN Workshop, Paris, June 2012.
• “Is MPLS-TP a Reality?” MPLS & Ethernet World Congress, Paris, Feb. 2012.
• “Packet Transport Network Design with MPLS-TP”, MPLS 2010, Washington D.C., October 2011.
• “New Transport Architecture Enabled by MPLS-TP”, Packet Optical Transport Networking, Paris, May 2011.
• “Bridging the Gaps of IP and Transport - Use Case Studies,” MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2011, Paris, Feb. 2011.
• “Packet Optical Transport Networks and MPLS-TP,” Packet-Optical Transport Networking Conference, Berlin, November 2010.
• “MPLS-TP Deployment Scenarios and Design Considerations,” MPLS 2010, Washington D.C., October 2010.
• “Evolving Transport to Packet,” Future-Net 2010, Boston, May 2010.
• “A Practical View of MPLS-TP,” MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2010, Paris, France, Feb. 2010.
• “Why MPLS-TP?” MPLS 2009, Washington D.C., October 2009.
• “Building Carrier Ethernet,” FutureNet 2009, Boston, May 2009.
• “NGN Ethernet Services and MPLS Transport,” MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2009, Paris, Feb. 2009.
• “Scalability, Resiliency, and OAM for MPLS + 802.1ah Solutions,” MPLS 2008, October 2008.
• “MPLS + 802.1ah,” FutureNet 2008, Boston, April 2008.
• “Solving the Carrier Ethernet Puzzle,” MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2008, Paris, France, Feb. 2008.
• “Carrier Ethernet Solutions,” MPLS 2007, Washington D.C., October 2007.
• “IPv6 - Design, Deployment and Challenges,” FutureNet 2007: MPLS, Ethernet and Beyond, NYC, May 2007.
• “IPv6 over MPLS - Deployment and Challenges,” MPLS World Congress 2007, Paris, France, Feb. 2007.
• “MPLS and IPv6 VPN,” MPLS 2006, Washington D.C. October 2006.
• “Implementing IPv6 and IPv6 VPN in MPLS networks,” MPLSCon 2006, New York City, May 2006.
• “IPv6 VPNs Over MPLS Networks,” MPLS World Congress 2006, Paris, France, Feb. 2006.
• “Advanced MPLS L3 VPN Deployment and Challenges - Inter-provider VPNs, VoIP support, and MVPNs,” MPLS 2005, Washington, D.C., October 2005.
• “MPLS L3 VPN Supporting VoIP, Multicast, and Inter-provider Solutions,” MPLSCon 2005, NYC, May 2005.
• “MPLS L3 VPN – Advanced Deployment and Challenges,” MPLS World Congress 2005, Paris, Feb. 2005.
• “BGP/MPLS VPN Deployment Experiences and Challenges,” MPLS 2004, Washington, D.C., October 2004.
• “MPLS/BGP VPN Design - Meeting the Customer Needs,” SUPERCOMM 2004, Chicago, IL, June 2004.
• “Designing MPLS VPN Networks to Meet Customers’ Needs,” MPLS World Congress 2004, Paris, Feb. 2004.
• “MPLS VPN Technologies,” 3rd Emerging Information Technology Conf. 2003, Princeton Univ., NJ, Nov. 2003.
• “Design and Deployment of Scalable Inter-AS MPLS VPNs,” MPLS 2003, Washington, D.C., October 2003.
• “Design and Deploy Scalable MPLS VPN Solutions in Large IP Networks,” MPLSCon 2003, NYC, May 2003.
• “Scalable MPLS VPN Network Design,” MPLS World Congress 2003, Paris, Feb. 2003.
• “Network Design for MPLS VPN and IP VPN,” IP and MPLS VPN Conference, London, UK, September 2002.
• “Deployment of MPLS VPN: Enterprise VPN and Carrier's Carrier VPN,” MPLS World Congress 2002, Paris, France, February 2002.
• “Identifying and Overcoming the Technical Challenges of Implementing MPLS VPNs,” MPLS and GMPLS Conference, London, UK, September 2001.
• “Migrating MPLS onto Large IP Networks,” Deploying MPLS, Boston, MA, July 2001.
• “MPLS VPN Deployment in a Large IP Backbone,” MPLS: Reality vs. Hype, Barcelona, Spain, April 2001.
• “Deployment of MPLS VPN in Large ISP Networks,” NANOG 21, Atlanta, GA, Feb. 2001.
• “Incremental Deployment of MPLS VPN in Large ISP Networks,” MPLS World Congress 2001, Paris, Feb. 2001.

Tutorials

• “MPLS-TP in Multi-Service Packet Network Deployments Tutorial”, Broadband Forum Tutorial, co-author and co-presenter, MPLS 2010, Washington DC October, 2010, MPLS&Ethernet World Congress, Paris, Feb. 2011.
• “MPLS-TP - Technologies and Standards”, co-author and co-presenter, Future-Net 2010, Boston, May 2010.
• “MPLS-TP,” co-author and co-presenter, MPLS & Ethernet World Congress, Paris, Feb. 2010.
• “IP/MPLS in the Mobile Radio Access Network (RAN),” IP/MPLS Sponsored tutorial, co-author and presenter, FutureNet 2009, New York City, May 2009.
• “MPLS in the Access,” IP/MPLS Sponsored tutorial, co-author and presenter, MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2009, Paris, Feb. 2009.
• “MPLS Security,” IP/MPLS Sponsored tutorial, co-author and presenter, FutureNet 2007, NYC, May 2007.
• “Deploying MPLS-Based Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks: Technologies and Challenges,” IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications 2002, Beijing, China, June 2002.
• “MPLS Technology and its Applications to Virtual Private Networks, Traffic Engineering, and Quality of Service: From Theory to Deployment,” IEEE GLOBECOM 2001, San Antonio, TX, November 2001.
• “Deploying Network Based IP VPN's,” Marcus Evans IP VPN Workshop, San Jose, CA, August 2001.
• “MPLS Technology and its Applications to Virtual Private Networks, Traffic Engineering, and Quality of Service: From Theory to Deployment,” IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications 2001, Bucharest, Romania, June 2001.

Conference Papers on Artificial Intelligence Topics

• "A multimedia-based intelligent configurator for network access equipment,” IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 98, New Orleans, LA, Feb. 1998, pp. 805-814, Vol. 3.
• “Predicting exchange rates using a fuzzy learning system,” Proc. of Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering (CIFEr), New York City, April, 1995, pp. 103-107.
• "A classifier using Parzen windows on decision trees,” Proc. of PRICAI'94 (3rd Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence), Beijing, China, Aug. 1994, Vol. 2, pp. 833-839.
• "Pattern classification based on adaptive self-organizing neural network,” Proc. of 3rd ASDAIR (3rd Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval), Las Vegas, April, 1994, pp. 103-114.
• "A structurally adaptive neural tree for recognizing large character set,” Proc. of IAPR 11th Int. Conference Pattern Recognition, Aug. 1992.
• "A self-organizing neural tree architecture,” Proc. ACNN'92, Canberra, Australia, Jan. 1992.
• "Hierarchical classification with self-organizing neural trees,” Proc. Int. Joint. Conf. Neural Networks (IJCNN 91), Singapore, Nov. 18-20, 1991, pp. 2707-2716.
• "Isolated words, multi-speaker speech recognition with multilayer perceptrons with applications,” Proc. of 3rd Australian Int. Conf. on Speech Science and Tech, Melbourne, Nov. 1990.
• "Randomized globally optimal learning algorithms for multilayer perceptrons,” Proc. of IASTED Int. Conf. Machine Learning and Neural Networks, New York City, Oct. 1990.
• "A comparative study of competition based and mean field networks using Quadratic Assignment,” Proc. of IASTED Int. Symposium, Expert Systems and Neural Networks, Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 1990, pp. 23-27.
• "Neural networks for generalized assignment,” Proc. of IASTED Int. Conf. Expert Systems and Neural Networks, Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 1990, pp. 78-81.
• "Mean field annealing neural net for quadratic assignment,” Proc. of Int. Neural Network Conference (INNC'90), Paris, July 1990, pp. 282-286.
• "Experiments on sequential pattern processing with neural networks,” Proc. of PPCC-3 (the 3rd Pan Pacific Computer Conference), Beijing, China, Aug. 1989, pp.164-170.
• "A study of sequential pattern processing on neural networks,” Proc. of IJCNN '89 (Int. Joint Conf. Neural Networks '89), Washington, DC, 1989, pp. 559.
• "A computational neural network for recognizing character patterns,” Proc. of Internat. Computer Science Conference '88, Hong Kong, Dec. 19-21, 1988, pp. 401-406.
• "Recognition of deformed character patterns in computational neural networks,” Proc. of AI'88, Adelaide, Australia, 1988, pp. 431-438.
• "Storing semantic information in stochastic neural nets,” Proc. of Australian Computer Science Communications, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1988, pp. 68-78.
• "Computer assisted examination for fundamental programming courses,” Proc. of CALITE-87, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Dec. 1987.
• "An expert system design tool for engineering diagnostics,” Proc. of IEEE 2nd Int. Conf. Computers and Applications, Beijing, China, June 1987, pp. 650-655.
• "Two way diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine,” Proc. of 3rd Int. Conf. Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Orlando, FL, April 1986, pp. 164-167.
• "The improvement of performance and parallelism in expert systems through abductive hypothesizing,” Proc. of 1986 Conf. Intelligent Systems and Machines, Rochester, Michigan, USA, April 1986.

Book Inclusions

• "A Globally Optimal Annealed Learning Algorithm for Multilayer Perceptrons with Applications to Diagnosis,” in AI'90, World Scientific, Nov. 1990, pp. 201-207.
• "Competition based neural network for job sequencing with deadlines,” Parallel Computing in Neural Networks, (ed. R. Eckmiler), pp. 253-256, North-Holland, March 1990.
• "Approximate Solution to the 0/1 Knapsack Optimization Problem on Competitive Neural Networks,” Advances in Parallel Computing, Vol. 2, North-Holland, 1990, pp. 281-286.
• "Character pattern recognition on computational neural networks,” AI'88, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 406, Springer-Verlag, 1990.
• "Implementing Semantic Networks in Stochastic Neural Nets,” in Artificial Intelligence Developments and Applications, North-Holland, 1988, pp. 351-361.

Thesis

• Ph.D. Thesis, "The Design of Computational Neural Networks," Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
• M..S. Thesis, "Codar: A General Purpose Design Tool for Diagnostic Expert Systems," Bringham Young University, Provo, Utah.

Conference Committee Member (recent activities)

• NFV/SDN Summit, Paris, France, 2014 - 2015. Scientific Committee member.
• MPLS/SDN World Congress, Paris, France, 2014 - 2015. Scientific Committee member.
• SDN Summit 2013, Paris, France, 2013. Scientific Committee member.
• Carrier Cloud Summit and SDN Workshop 2012, Paris, France, 2012. Scientific Committee member.
• MPLS & Ethernet World Congress, Paris, France, 2002 – 2014. Scientific Committee member.
• SDN/MPLS International Conference, Washington, D.C., 2014- 2015. Technical Committee member.
• MPLS, Washington, D.C., 2003 – 2013. Technical Committee member.
• MPLSCon/Future-Net, New York City, 2003 – 2007. Advisory Board member.
• The International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS). Co-Chair (2005). Advisory Committee member and TPC member (2006).
• IPS-MoMe: Internet Performance, Simulation, Monitoring and Measurements, Salzburg, Austria, 2006. TPC member.