Will Leland
What I do
I am the Director of the Computer Communications Research Group
of the Computer Networking Research Department at
Telcordia Technologies. I came to Telcordia in February, 1984.
My current work interests include:
- Internet performance measurement, including
Felix and
the IETF's
IP
Performance Metrics Working Group.
- Research interests currently on the back-burner
- Resilient networks.
- IP security.
- Connection control and session management in the Internet world.
- Understanding broadband network traffic.
- Using simulated annealing for network design,
such as PCS cell assignment.
- Next generation Internet Protocol (IPv6), especially the new
address and routing modes it enables. For example,
- Provider selection
- Portable addresses
- Geographic addresses
- Renumbering for enterprise-scale IP addresses
(
PIER).
What I've done
- Highly data-driven infrastructure support for multimedia connection
management (Touring Machine versions 2 and 3).
- Integration of Touring 3 and INA connection management.
- Simulated annealing for survivable network design.
- Congestion avoidance and control for high-speed packet networks.
- Models of Unix process behavior
(implications of heavy-tailed distributions).
- Process migration in multiprocessor computer systems.
- Retransmission policies for TCP.
- One of the first IP, TCP, FTP, and TELNET implementations for IBM systems.
I've also served on the Program Committee for ACM SIGCOMM'95,
ACM SIGMETRICS'96,
ACM SIGCOMM'96,
and
ACM SIGCOMM'97.
I was a Session Chair at Interface'98.
I'm a Senior Member of
IEEE,
and a member of
ACM,
ACM SIGCOMM,
AAAS,
IEEE Communications Society,
and Sigma Xi.
I am Co-Chair of the IETF's
IP
Performance Metrics Working Group, along with Matt Zekauskas.
Education
- I got my MS (23 December 1978) and PhD (23 May 1982)
in Computer Sciences at the
University of Wisconsin -- Madison,
with Marv Solomon
for my advisor. After finishing my thesis, I did postdoctoral work
implementing TCP/IP, FTP, and TELNET for
Larry Landweber
from June, 1982 until January, 1984, when I left
Wisconsin for New Jersey and Telcordia.
- My undergraduate days were spent at MIT,
where I found a BS in physics (12 September 1973)
and a BS in math (20 February 1974) ... and
my wife (31 July 1971).
Hobbies
- Modern Western Square Dance (http://www.dosado.com)
(all levels, from Mainstream to Mars).
- Any excuse to go for long walks: birds, flowers, geology, local history....
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