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From: Karen Deal <karend@isr.umd.edu>

                A MESSAGE FROM:  
                The Institute for Systems Research
                University of Maryland at College Park
                Advanced Networks Colloquium


*************** Advanced Networks Colloquium *****************

Sponsored by the Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks  

Title:  "The Fractal Nature of Data Traffic"

Speaker:  Walter Willinger
          Information Sciences Research Center
          AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ

Date:   Friday, October 9, 1998
Time:  11 a.m. 
Place: A.V. Williams Building, room 2460 
        University of Maryland, College Park

Abstract:  After a brief summary of what we have learned in the past 5+ years
about data networks and the traffic that they carry, I will discuss three
recent developments related to improving our still rather incomplete
understanding of data network traffic: structural modeling of fractal network
traffic, the emergence of wavelet techniques for analyzing network traffic
measurements, and finally the observed multifractal scaling behavior of
wide-area traffic traces.

Biography: Walter Willinger received the Diplom (Dipl. Math) from the ETH
Zurich, Switzerland, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of the
Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.  He is currently a member of the
Information Sciences Research Center at AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ. 
Before that, he was a Member of the Technical Staff at Bellcore (1986-1996). 
He has been a leader of the work on self-similar or fractal traffic modeling
and is co-recipient of the 1996 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Award and the 1994
W.R. Bennett Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society for the
paper titled "On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic."

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     send e-mail to karend@isr.umd.edu**