The Kluwer International Series In Engineering and Computer Science

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For Meyeon and Kyunja.

About the Author

Dr. Kun I. Park is Technical Manager at The MITRE Corporation. ^[*] Previously, he worked at Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Lucent. He held technical management positions of Supervisor at Bell Labs and District Manager and Director at Bellcore. At Bell Labs, he developed stochastic models of "crosstalk" intelligibility between telephone channels and end-to-end voice and voiceband data performance. He supervised a group responsible for digital communications performance, the pre-divestiture Bell System end-to-end voice and voiceband data performance characterization and development of a hardware/software-based ISDN protocol verification system. Through his career, he also worked on wireless, IP, ATM, optical networks, and network performance management. At Lucent, he worked on QoS and congestion control for packet networks. He holds two patents on IP and ATM congestion control methods.

Since 1986, he has been Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering with the rank of Full Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology and...