Advanced Internet Protocols, Services, and Applications

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Eiji Oki is an Associate Professor at the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. He received his Bachelor and Master of Engineering degrees in Instrumentation Engineering and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1991, 1993, and 1999, respectively. In 1993, he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) Communication Switching Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan. He has been researching network design and control, traffic-control methods, and high-speed switching systems. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, New York, where he was involved in designing terabit switch/router systems. He was engaged in researching and developing high-speed optical IP backbone networks with NTT Laboratories. He joined the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, in July 2008. He has been active in standardization of path computation element (PCE) and GMPLS in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). He wrote 11 IETF RFCs. He served as a guest co-editor for the special issue on “Multi-Domain Optical Networks: Issues and Challenges,” June 2008, in IEEE Communications Magazine; a guest co-editor for the special issue on Routing, “Path Computation and Traffic Engineering in Future Internet,” December 2007, in the Journal of Communications and Networks; a guest co-editor for the special section on “Photonic Network Technologies in ...