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David
Tipper
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Telecommunications and Networking
Spring 2008
Schedule:
TELCOM 2720 Cellular and Wireless Networks: Wednesday PM
TELCOM 2921
Independent Study: Queueing
Theory: Friday 1-3
Office Hours:
Tuesday 1:30 – 3:00 PM, Wednesday
1:30-3:00 PM or by appointment
Current
and Recent Ph.D. Students
Biographical Sketch
David Tipper is an Associate Professor of Telecommunications in the Department of Information Science and
Telecommunications at the University
of Pittsburgh. At Pitt, Dr. Tipper regularly teaches
courses on communication systems, wireless networks and network performance
modeling and analysis. In addition to his duties at Pitt, Dr. Tipper holds the
position of Professor II of Informatics at Molde College in
Prior to joining Pitt in the Fall of 1994, he was a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department at Clemson University
(Assistant Professor 1987-1993, tenured
Associate Professor 1993 - 1994). At Clemson, he taught
courses on signal processing, control theory, and network performance modeling
and received the NCR Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, as
well as an Outstanding Honors Professor citation. While at Clemson he
also served as the Associate Director of the Center for Computer
Communication Systems being responsible for external relations for the research
center and organizing an annual conference. During the Summer of 1993, he was a
member of technical staff in the
Professor Tipper is a graduate of the University of Arizona (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 1988, M.S. Systems Engineering 1984) and Virginia Tech (B.S. Electrical Engineering 1980). His current research interests include network design, virtual network design, methods for improving network survivability, the development of efficient algorithms for nonstationary/transient queueing analysis, and the design and analysis of network controls (e.g. routing, admission control, scheduling, etc.) His research has been supported by grants from various government and corporate sources such as the National Science Foundation, IBM, DARPA and MCI. He is a member of INFORMS, Sigma Xi, and a Senior member of IEEE.
Professional activities include serving as the co-guest editor of two special issues
of the Journal of Network and Systems Management
one on Fault Management in
Communication Networks which appeared in June, 1997 and one on Designing and Managing Optical Networks and Service Reliability, which
appeared March, 2005. He has served on
the technical program committee for several major conferences such as, IEEE INFOCOM (seven
times most recently in 2003), ACM/IEEE
MWSIM , IEEE Globecom, etcetera.
Currently he is on the following conference committees IEEE ISCC 2007 , IEEE DRCN 2007, NGI 2007 and IEEE IPCCC 2007, . He was a member of the
editorial board of the Journal of
Network and Systems Management from
2000 to 2005. He was the technical program chair of the Design of Reliable Communication Networks 2003
Workshop held in
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