Professor

717A IS Building
412-624-9423

rat@tele.pitt.edu

Institution of highest degree:
PhD. University of Connecticut

Research Interests:
Communications switching systems. especially photonic switching; intelligent networks; terminals. user services. and the human interface; fault tolerance and cellular automata; probabilistic formal languages.

Recent Publications:

A. Rugachart and R. Thompson, "An analysis of time-synchronized optical burst switching." Proceedings IEEE High Performance Switching and Routing Workshop (HPSR’06),  June,  2006.

R. Thompson, D. Tipper, J.Kabara and P. Krishnamurthy, The Physical Layer of Communication Systems, Artech House,  2006.
Thompson, Richard, and B. Ngamwongwattana. April 2005. Variable Packetization for Reduced End-to-End Relay. IEEE CQR Workshop.