Computer Networking, eBook, Global Edition

Jim Kurose is a DistinguishedUniversity Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has been on the faculty sincereceiving his PhD in computer science from Columbia University. He received aBA in physics from Wesleyan University. He has held a number of visitingscientist positions in the US and abroad, including IBM Research, INRIA and theSorbonne University in France. He recently completed a five-year term asAssistant Director at the US National Science Foundation, where he led theDirectorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering in its missionis to uphold the nation's leadership in scientific discovery and engineeringinnovation. Jim is proud tohave mentored and taught an amazing group of students, and to have received anumber of awards for his research, teaching and service, including the IEEEInfocom Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award, the ACM Sigcomm Testof Time Award, and the IEEE Computer Society Taylor Booth Education Medal. Dr.Kurose is a former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Communications andof IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has served as Technical Programco-Chair for IEEE Infocom, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM Internet Measurement Conference, andACM SIGMETRICS. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. His research interestsinclude network protocols and architecture, network measurement, multimediacommunication, and modeling and performance evaluation. Keith Ross is the Dean ofEngineering and Computer Science at NYU Shanghai and the Leonard J. ShustekChair Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at NYU.Previously he was at University of Pennsylvania (13 years), Eurecom Institute(5 years) and NYU-Poly (10 years). He received a B.S.E.E from Tufts University,a M.S.E.E. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Computer and ControlEngineering from The University of Michigan. Keith Ross is also the co-founderand original CEO of Wimba, which develops online multimedia applications fore-learning and was acquired by Blackboard in 2010. Professor Ross'sresearch interests have been in modeling and measurement of computer networks,peer-to-peer systems, content distribution networks, social networks, andprivacy. He is currently working in deep reinforcement learning. He is an ACMFellow, an IEEE Fellow, recipient of the Infocom 2009 Best Paper Award, andrecipient of 2011 and 2008 Best Paper Awards for Multimedia Communications(awarded by IEEE Communications Society). He has served on numerous journaleditorial boards and conference program committees, including IEEE/ACMTransactions on Networking, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNext, and ACM InternetMeasurement Conference. He also has served as an advisor to the Federal TradeCommission on P2P file sharing.