Dear IEEE Member
You are invited to attend the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) talk organized by the IEEE joint NZ North, South and Central ComSoc Chapter, and School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
Presenter: Professor Emeritus Richard Harris, Massey University Palmerston North
Title: Unlocking the IP Network Planning Puzzle
Date: Thursday 27 April 2017
Time: 11am - 12pm Venue: WT121, AUT Tower (WT Building), AUT Wellesley Campus, 2-14 Wakefield Street, Auckland CBD
Contact: Dr William Liu (william.liu@aut.ac.nz) or A/Professor Nurul Sarkar (nurul.sarkar@aut.ac.nz) for more details
Abstract Recent developments in networking have seen the emergence of "Software Defined Networks (SDN)" and "Network Function Virtualisation (NFV)". These two new concepts represent significant challenges to network planners around the world. The rapid pace of the Internet and raised expectations by consumers concerning applications and bandwidth have fuelled the need for rapid growth in the network, its facilities and services. Tools are required for network planners in order to cope with these new developments. The talk will provide an introduction to SDN and NFV and the challenges that they pose to planners and then a software tool designed to assist in meeting these challenges will be demonstrated to illustrate some solutions that have been developed to address these issues.
Bio: Richard Harris graduated with a B.Sc.(Hons) from the University of Adelaide in 1971 and this was followed by a Ph.D. (in the area of optimal design of telephone networks) under the supervision of Professor R.B. Potts in 1974. Upon completion of his thesis, he joined the Headquarters Traffic Engineering Section of the Australian Post Office and he moved to the Telecom Research Labs in 1980 and became Deputy Head of the Network Analysis Section in the Switched Networks Research Branch in 1987. In April 1989, he took up an appointment with Bond University as an Associate Professor in the School of Information and Computing Sciences and was Deputy Director of the Centre for Telecommunication Network Research. He moved to RMIT in early 1993 as Director of the Centre for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) and Professor of Communication Systems. He remained at RMIT University for 11 years. In 2005, he took up an appointment as Chair in Telecommunications and Network Engineering at Massey University in New Zealand. He was appointed as Professor Emeritus at Massey upon his retirement in 2013. He has participated in many consultancy projects and R & D contracts related to Call Centre design, telephone, ATM and IP network design, management and optimization. He has been part of several groups involved in building network planning tools including MINDER (Telecom Australia) and network-planning tools for advanced networks such as ATM (Telekom Malaysia - APTNet) and IP network-planning for reliability (Telecom New Zealand - now Spark). In recent years, he has been involved in the analysis of routing methods for IP networks including methods for optimal routing in OSPF and MPLS networks. He was also interested in Quality of Experience modelling and routing in Wireless Sensor Networks and recently supervised PhD students in these topics. Although recently retired, he still takes a keen interest in areas of network planning and performance for the Internet and specifically focusing on network service resiliency for Next Generation Networks, Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualisation.
