Bio
Jim Roberts has a BSc in mathematics from the University of Surrey, UK and a PhD from the University of Paris.
He has been with the France Telecom research labs since 1978 where he has
performed research on the performance evaluation and design of traffic controls
for multiservice networks including ISDN, ATM and the
Internet. He was chairman of three successive European COST projects on the
performance of multiservice networks, this activity
culminating in the publication of the book "Broadband Network Teletraffic" (Springer 1996). He has published
extensively in journals and conferences gaining a best paper award at Infocom 1999. He has been a member of several journal
editorial boards, including Computer Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking and IEEE JSAC, and many conference programme committees in the
networking field, including Infocom and SIGCOMM. He
was TPC co-chair for Infocom 2003. His current
research is focused on the definition and evaluation of traffic control and
transport mechanisms for a future Internet, notably in the European project
4WARD.
Research group
Research interests
Traffic theory
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