Jean Walrand
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Research Areas
Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences (IDNCS), Performance evaluationGame theory
Research Centers
Berkeley Laboratory for Information and System Sciences (BLISS)Tsinghua-UC Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI)
Biography
He received his Ph.D. in EECS from UC Berkeley. He is the co-author of "Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction" (Morgan-Claypool 2010), "Scheduling and Congestion Control for Communication and Processing Networks" (Morgan-Claypool, 2010), "High-Performance Communication Networks" (2nd ed, Morgan Kaufman, 2000) and "Sharing Network Resources (Morgan-Claypool, 2014), and the author of An Introduction to Queueing Networks (Prentice Hall, 1988) and Probability in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Amazon, 2014). Prof. Walrand is a Fellow of the Belgian American Education Foundation and of the IEEE and a recipient of the INFORMS Lanchester Prize, the IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2012 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award and the 2013 ACM Sigmetrics Achievement Award.Selected Publications
P. Maille, S. Parekh, and J. Walrand, "Overlaying Delay-Tolerant Service using SDN," July 2015.D. Lee, J. Mo, J. Walrand, and J. Park, "A Token Pricing Scheme for Internet Services," in ICQT, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6995, Springer, 2011, pp. 26-37.
J. Musacchio, J. Walrand, R. Myers, S. Parekh, J. Mo, and G. Agarwal, "Backpressure Mechanism for Switch Fabric," U.S. Patent 7,983,287. July 2011.
L. Jiang and J. Walrand, "Approaching throughput-optimality in distributed CSMA scheduling algorithms with collisions," IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 816-829, June 2011.
D. Hausheer, A. Parekh, J. Walrand, and G. Schwartz, "Towards a compelling new Internet platform," in Proceedings of the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2011, IEEE, 2011, pp. 1224-1227.
L. Jiang, V. Anantharam, and J. Walrand, "How bad are selfish investments in network security?," IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 549-560, April 2011.
L. Jiang, M. Leconte, J. Ni, R. Srikant, and J. Walrand, "Fast mixing of parallel Glauber dynamics and low-delay CSMA scheduling," in INFOCOM, 2011, pp. 371-375.
J. Lee and J. Walrand, "Optimism in games with non-probabilistic uncertainty," in Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2010, IEEE, 2010, pp. 4347-4352.
L. Jiang, D. Shah, J. Shin, and J. Walrand, "Distributed Random Access Algorithm: Scheduling and Congestion Control," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 6182-6207, Nov. 2010.
A. Gueye, J. Walrand, and V. Anantharam, "Design of Network Topology in an Adversarial Environment," in GameSec, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6442, Springer, 2010, pp. 1-20.
R. Jain and J. Walrand, "An efficient Nash-implementation mechanism for network resource allocation," Automatica, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 1276-1283, Oct. 2010.
N. Shetty, G. Schwartz, and J. Walrand, "Can Competitive Insurers Improve Network Security?," in TRUST, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6101, Springer, 2010, pp. 308-322.
L. Jiang and J. Walrand, Scheduling and Congestion Control for Wireless and Processing Networks, Synthesis Lectures on Communication Networks, citeKey, Morgan {\&} Claypool Publishers, 2010.
J. Walrand and S. Parekh, Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction, Synthesis Lectures on Communication Networks, citeKey, Morgan {\&} Claypool Publishers, 2010.
J. Walrand and S. Parekh, Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction, Morgan & Claypool, 2010.
N. Shetty, S. Parekh, and J. Walrand, "Economics of Femtocells," in IEEE Globecom, 2009.
L. Jiang, V. Anantharam, and J. Walrand, "Efficiency of selfish investments in network security," in Proc. 3rd Intl. Workshop on Economics of Networked Systems (NetEcon '08), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2008, pp. 31-36.
L. Jiang, S. Parekh, and J. Walrand, "Time-Dependent Network Pricing and Bandwidth Trading," in IEEE International Workshop on Bandwidth on Demand (BoD), 2008.
R. Jain and J. Walrand, "An efficient mechanism for network bandwidth auction," in Proc. 2nd IEEE Intl. Workshop on Bandwidth on Demand (BoD 2008), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2008, pp. 227-234.
N. Shetty, A. Gieue, and J. Walrand, "A novel approach to bottleneck analysis in networks," in Proc. 20th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Managment Symp. (NOMS 2008), M. Brunner, C. B. Westphall, and L. Z. Granville, Eds., Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2008, pp. 65-72.
Awards, Memberships and Fellowships
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, 2012ComSoc Stephen O. Rice Prize, 2000
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, 1993
INFORMS Frederick W. Lanchester Prize, 1989