Prof. Muriel Medard-MIT-Speaks Monday-13th
Carolyn A Patterson
See: http://amp.ece.cmu.edu/ECESeminar
ECE Seminar Series
NOTE LOCATION/DAY AND TIME CHANGES
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Monday, November 13, 2000
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Hamerschlag Hall, Rm. 1112
Refreshments 2:30 PM
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``Robustness and Recovery in Optical Networks''
Prof. Muriel Medard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Cambridge, MA
Abstract
Robustness of optical networks and the ability to perform recovery in a
rapid and capacity-efficient manner are central to the development of a
large integrated optical infrastructure. I overview different methods of path
and link recovery for optical networks and detail some recent
developments in that area. In particular, I concentrate on migrating away
from ring-centric approaches to optical network recovery, which either
build networks from rings or attempt to create ring-based networks atop
mesh topologies. These new results have several consequences for
capacity-efficient recovery and implications for network management.
Bio
Muriel Medard received the B.S. degrees in 1989, the M.S. degree in 1991,
and the Sc.D. degree in 1995, all from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), Cambridge. She is currently an Assistant Professor
in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. She
was previously an Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department and the Coordinated Science Laboratory,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. From 1995 to 1998 she was a
Staff Member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Optical Communications and
the Advanced Networking Groups.