Dr. Harry Perros
Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor
2299 EB II Phone: 919-515-2041
Fax: 919-515-7925
Email: perros AT csc.ncsu.edu
Web Site: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hp/
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Harry G. Perros is a Professor of Computer Science, an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor, and the Program Coordinator of the Master of Science degree in Computer Networks at NC State University. He received the B.Sc. degree in Mathematics in 1970 from Athens University, Greece, the M.Sc. degree in Operational Research with Computing from Leeds University, England, in 1971, and the Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, in 1975. He has held visiting faculty positions at INRIA, Rocquencourt, France (1979), NORTEL, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (1988-89 and 1995-96) and University of Paris 6, France (1995-96, 2000, and 2002). He has published extensively in the area of performance modelling of computer and communication systems, and he has organized several national and international conferences. He has also published three print books: Queueing Networks with Blocking: Exact and Approximate Solutions, Oxford University Press 1994, An Introduction to ATM Networks, Wiley 2001, Connection-Oriented Networks, Wiley 2005, and an e-book Computer Simulation Techniques - The Definitive Introduction, 2002. In 1995 he founded the IFIP Working Group 6.3 on the Performance of Communication Systems, and he was the chairman from 1995 to 2002. Since 2004, he is the chairman of the IFIP Working Group 6.10 on Optical Networks. He is also a member of IFIP Working Groups 6.2 and 7.3, a member of the National Lambda Rail Network Research Council, and an IEEE Senior Member. He is also an associate Editor for the Performance Evaluation Journal, and the Telecommunications Systems Journal. His current research interests are in the areas of optical networks, grids, autonomic computing, and service engineering.
