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DR. MILOSH V. IVANOVICH Melbourne - September 2002 |
Dr. Milosh Vladimir Ivanovich Date
of Birth:
15th April, 1975. Professional
Memberships:
Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Citizenship:
Australian Hobbies
and Interests: Basketball, Tennis,
Web surfing and Computer Networking. Family: Wife Gordana, sons Dushan (4), Milan (1 mth).
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Ultimately, my career goal is to become an expert in one or more of the abovementioned fields, and lecture at a university while managing my own R&D consulting company in the field of network performance analysis. |
** At the age of 15 years and 9 months enrolled at Monash University, as the youngest full-time student at the Faculty of Engineering in 1991. ** In 1991, the Engineering Department's First Year Prize for outstanding students, "The Dean's Scholarship", valued at $3200. ** In 1993, the Engineering Department's SECV FARADAY Prize for the most outstanding second year's student valued at $500. ** In 1993/1994, during the vacation experience between third and fourth years of study, at Telecom Research Laboratories, investigated a newly proposed queueing theory model for the Broadband ISDN / ATM based services. This work was submitted, accepted and published in the proceedings of the1994 ATNAC - Australian Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference, resulting in the first paper publication at age 19. ** In 1994, upon completing the BE course, achieved the highest overall Honours Weighted Average in the Department, and was subsequently awarded the prestigious Graeme Beard Memorial prize, valued at $1000. Received in May, 1995. ** Nominated to also receive the Institute of Engineers Australia, Ian Langlands medal. After consultations with the Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, and an interview with an I.E.Australia panel, was awarded this prestigious prize, also in May, 1995. ** In collaboration with part-time employer, Telstra Research Laboratories, enrolled on 1/3/95 as a full-time student for the Master of Computing (by100% Research) degree, at the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Monash University. With special permission from the head of the Department of Computer Science, the Masters Thesis was submitted in record time, only 7 months after commencement of candidature. Graduated as MComp in March, 1996. ** In December 1995, awarded the Australian Postgraduate Award, and consequently in March 1996, commenced a full-time PhD in Computing degree at the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Monash University. ** In May 1996, submitted a successful contribution to the world's telecommunications standards making body, the ITU-T (see List of Publications). ** In 1996, attained the place of Semi-Finalist in the Young Australian of the Year award in the Victorian Division, category of "Science & Technology". ** In June 1997, promoted within Telstra Research Laboratories to the post of Senior Research Engineer (P2 classification) for Broadband Strategy, at the age of 22 years one month. ** In June 1997, notified of the acceptance of article (stemming from Masters thesis) for publication in the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology journal. It is usual for those researchers achieving this honour, to do so much later in their careers. ** In July 1997, awarded the prestigious "ACM/SIGCOMM PhD student Travel Grant" covering travel expenses and registration to the 1997ACM/SIGCOMM conference being held in September, in Cannes, France. Previously, awarded conference trips to ICC 96 (held in Dallas, funded wholly by Monash University) as well as ATNAC 95 and 96 (held in Sydney and Melbourne, funded wholly by Telstra). ** In October, 1997, attained the place of Semi-Finalist in the Young Australian of the Year award in the Victorian Division, category of "Career and Achievement". ** In November, 1997, attained the place of Finalist in the Young Australian of the Year award in the Victorian Division, category of "Science & Technology". ** In December, 1997, (at the age of 22) submitted PhD thesis for examination at Monash University. Examination was successful, leading to the Doctorate of Philosophy in Information Technology being awarded at a ceremony on April 29, 1998. ** In September 1998, became an Honorary/Visiting Lecturer for a subject
(ATM Network Design) offered as part of the Master of Engineering degree, at
Monash University's Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and
Computer Systems Engineering. ** In December 1999, named the Young Achiever of the Year 2000 for Victoria. ** In December 1999, announced the Young Australian of the Year 2000, category "Science and Technology" for Victoria. ** In December 1999, announced a National Finalist in the Young Australian of the Year award, category "Science and Technology".
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** In Nov. 1997, submitted thesis for award of the Ph.D in Information Technology degree. Formally awarded the doctorate in ceremony on April 29th, 1998. This brought the total time of candidature to just over two years - an entire year less than the usual time for PhD completion. The focus of the Ph.D thesis was teletraffic modelling and analysis of cable modem and wireless access protocols, while at the same time evaluating existing and new traffic models for self-similar traffic, which exists in the modern and emerging high speed telecommunications environment. ** In 1995, completed the Master of Computing degree by 100% research, with a thesis entitled "Performance Analysis of Channel Allocation Schemes for Half and Full Rate Calls in GSM" . The work was carried out and documented in record time, with candidature commencing on 1/3/95 and the submission of the thesis on 27/10/95. Graduated with the degree in March, 1996. ** In 1994, completed the final year of the Bachelor of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering degree, with eleven subjects undertaken together with the honours thesis project. Graduated with First Class Honours as Dux with the degree in May, 1995. The results obtained in the eleven 4TH year
subjects
plus thesis were:
Completed in 1990 at University High School, after four years in the
Gifted Children's Acceleration Programme, at the age of 15. The results
obtained were as follows:
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1. Principal Research Engineer and Project Leader - Wireless NetworkingDate: Jan-00 - present With responsibility for 7 team members, my role is to plan, design, implement and supervise the Radio Networks Section's suite of Wireless Internet Performance Analysis and Monitoring activities, including but not restricted to : automated performance monitoring solutions for wireless and fixed networks, TCP optimisation and analysis on wireless networks, QoS and SLAs in wireless networks, wireless traffic modelling, Medium Access Control performance, Radio Resource Management and Packet Scheduling algorithms. 2. Senior Communications Consultant - AARNet Corporate AccountDate: Oct-98 - Oct 99 With a direct responsibility for 4 team members, my role was to plan, design, and supervise all technical activities related to the AARNet corporate account at Cable & Wireless Optus (now SingTel Optus). This was a commercially-focussed and high internal and external profile role, with direct reporting to the Optus board, due to the sensitivity and financial value of the AARNet account. This provided me with an excellent and very steep learning curve in the world of business, interaction with the board of a very large organisation (such as the country's No. 2 telco), selling/negotiation skills and customer focus. 3. Project Leader for (a) Internet Performance Project and (b) International Traffic Dispersion ProjectDate: Sep-98 - Oct 98 With a direct responsibility for 5 team members, my role is to plan, design, implement and supervise the Broadband Networks Section's complete Internet Performance Analysis activities, which are divided into two distinct projects under my leadership. The first, entitled the Internet Performance and Capacity Planning Project, entails client requirements analysis and subsequent development of various solutions (hardware/software implementations) for IP performance measurement, application benchmarking / diagnostics, as well as models for link dimensioning in the backbone and access networks. The second of the projects, entitled the International Traffic Dispersion Project, entails customer requirements analysis and the continued use of (and improvements to) an in-house-developed software tool used for associating the IP traffic flowing into and out of Telstra's IP backbone network, with particular geographic locations (i.e. countries or continents). This is extremely useful in facilitating the work of Telstra's International Capacity Planning and Provisioning business units. 4. Internet Capacity Planning and QoS ProjectDate: Feb-98 - Aug-98 This project required me to: (a) Perform quantitative analysis and experimental evaluation, for different proposed architectures of Telstra's routed IP networks (TMM, TIB), including the study of end-to-end performance / throughput / capacity and their relationship to capital and operational cost. (b) Plan and carry out performance measurements on Telstra's routed IP networks (TMM, TIB) clearly identifying what, when and how to measure; and, (c) Provide recommendation to clients on the merits of network strategies and product strategies, for Telstra's routed IP networks. 5. Internetworking Infrastructure ProjectDate: 97 - Feb-98This project involves the planning, design and costing of a proposal to simplify and make more efficient Telstra’s national routed (IP) network infrastructure, by integrating today’s multitude of IP networks (Big Pond family of products) onto a common ATM backbone infrastructure. My work here encompasses everything from engineering evaluation of equipment (routers, switches) to financial evaluation of network proposals, to investigation of security issues of a merged infrastructure. In particular, IP on ATM carriage technologies such as PVCs, Classical IP over ATM, SVCs and cut-trough (IP and TAG switching) methods are all considered. 6. ADSL Business Data Evolution ProjectDate: 96-97Participated in the planning of a potential new ADSL-based architecture for a dedicated line business data product and contributed significantly in requirement specifications, as well as calculation of the financial details of the proposal. 7. ATM Migration ProjectDate: 95-97In line with Telstra's plan to migrate existing Fastpac customers to its new High Speed Data Service (HSDS), the aim of this project was to aid in the task of dimensioning, by using existing Fastpac customer profiles, and adapt them accordingly. The main focus was on the performance of Nortel's "Passport" ATM switches when loaded by various combinations of user traffic, as well as the Peak and Sustainable Information rates, and Intrinsic Burst Tolerances which are applicable for different scenarios (tariff, traffic types etc.). An Excel/Visual Basic software tool was developed. The application used an approximate algorithm to identify a Fastpac traffic stream's peak rate, and then given a particular burst tolerance, it suggested the minimum sustainable rate required in order to adhere to the burst tolerance specified. The value of this work to Telstra was that it provided the marketers of the HSDS Passport product with a "first cut" description ofthe users' likely needs, as interpolated from their current Fastpac measurements. 8. FASTPAC ProjectDate: 95-95The original focus of the project was to evaluate as 'the best available', one of the MMPP, M/Pareto, Gaussian and Mean Only traffic models for the Fastpac data we had. This study was undertaken, and for reasons of complexity, inaccuracy in prediction, or failure to provide "deep insight" into traffic behaviour, all of these models were shown to be unwieldy, except for the Gaussian. When the combined approach of using the Gamma function model with the Critical Windows was examined, it was shown to be performing better than all of these other models, including the Gaussian, in predicting packet loss probability. An appropriate application based on Excel and Visual Basic was developed, which using the Gamma function model at its core, provided cell loss estimates given sample ATM cell traffic streams. The overall value of this work was significant to Telstra. It was a clear example of a detailed, methodical approach to the planning and development of firstly, equipment and traffic models respectively, secondly the careful verification and validation of these models, and lastly the development, delivery and successful field implementation of a software tool based on these models. 9. Contribution to ITU Standard Rec. E.716, SG2Date: 1/6/96The critical windows approach, which is based on Reich's method for calculating virtual work remaining in a single server queueing system, and that formed the basis of our model in the Fastpac project (in 3. above) was used as the foundation to make a contribution to ITU Study Group 2, Recommendation E.716 "User Demand Modelling in B-ISDN". The contribution was accepted in part; a significant modification was agreed to by the membersof SG2, incorporating our model (Ivanovich and Zukerman) descriptions in an Annex/Appendix. 10. ATM Standards Update ProjectDate: 96An urgent update of the current status of ATM standards both in the ITU and ATM Forum arenas was requested by a number of important clients in capacity planning and data platforms areas. The project was divided into smaller research tasks, whereby I was charged with updating the relevant Network Dimensioning and Traffic Management standards from the two abovementioned bodies. 11. Half Rate Channels in GSM: Traffic Analysis ProjectDate: 95Improving voice codec technology warranted that a full performance analysis be planned and carried out to investigate the effects of introducing a half rate channel service in GSM, to co-exist with the current full rate channel structure. The most important issues were to propose channel allocation schemes which manufacturers might consider, and evaluate the effect of such schemes on network efficiency (utilisation subject to Grade of Service constraints), call blocking probability fairness, hardware implementation complexity, as well as transmitted voice quality. The study (which was based around my Master of Computing thesis) was completed at the end of 1995, with results pointing to advantages in the use of resource efficient schemes such as Best Fit and Repacking (variations). 12. MCS Customer Service Calls Forecasting ProjectDate: 95The aim was to create a forecasting tool which would predict the numberof expected calls coming in to a Telstra Customer Service Centre, to facilitate better decisions about staffing levels. The project involved first gathering large quantities of relevant mobile network metrics, such as Services in Operation, Total Connections Churn In/Out. Using statistical analysis tools (Excel and Stat. Add-Ins) we sought the network metrics which were themost strongly correlated to the number of weekly calls having to be answered by MCS Customer Service Representatives. A semi-automated Excel Spreadsheet was created, which contains areas for data storage, model calculations, trend forecasting and graphical display of expected call levels. |
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