Performance Modeling, Stochastic Networks, and Statistical Multiplexing, Second Edition

Ravi R. Mazumdar was born in 1955 in Bangalore, India. He was educated at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (B.Tech. 1977), Imperial College, London, UK (MSc, DC 1978), and received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1983. He was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, NY (1985-88); Associate and Full Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Montreal, Canada (1988-97). From 1996-2000 he held the Chair in Operational Research at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK, and from 1999-2005 was Professor of ECE at Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. Since Fall 2004 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada as a University Research Chair Professor. Dr. Mazumdar is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Royal Statistical Society. He was a recipient of the IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award in 2006 and was Runner-up for the Best Paper at the INFOCOM in 1998. His research interests are in stochastic modeling and analysis with applications to wireline and wireless networks; in game theory and its applications to networking; and in stochastic analysis and queueing theory.

• Introduction to Traffic Models and Analysis.- Queues and Performance Analysis.- Loss Models for Networks.- Stochastic Networks and Insensitivity.- Statistical Multiplexing.