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CQR 2010 CHAIRMAN’S AWARD
The Technical Committee on Communications Quality & Reliability (CQR) is an IEEE Communications Society international professional organization that is unique in its service to the quality, reliability and security professionals of the global communications industry. The IEEE Communications Society President Byeong Gi Lee and CQR Chair Hiromi Ueda, honored Kenichi Mase, Kevin Peters and Andres Servida with the 2010 CQR Chairman’s Award at an awards ceremony during the annual CQR International Workshop in Vancouver, Canada on June 9, 2010.
Criteria upon which recipients were selected include:
sustained contributions in the field of Quality, Reliability & Security of communications services, networks or systems;
a demonstration of the core value of a professional society- adding value to others; and
integrity consistent with that of a role model.
For contributions to the research and development of communications network traffic control and QoS management.
Prof. Kenichi Mase has made significant long-lasting contributions in the field of telecommunications traffic engineering and network control and QoS from their inception to practical usage.
He started his research on network issues in mid ’70s, when this research arena was in its very early stage worldwide. He proposed a traffic database around 1980, which was quite a remarkable idea in those days. His ideas showed the way to drastically innovate network control architecture to achieve high performance under focused overload and traffic variation. His subsequent life-long research activities stem from these pioneering works of nearly 25 years ago.
He was then promoted to a group leader at NTT Laboratories, where he exhibited his extraordinary skills in realizing the traffic routing control systems, which he advocated based on his preceding research. Under his strong and foreseeing leadership, a dynamic routing system called STR (Space and Time dependent Routing) was successfully developed and deployed in NTT’s huge toll network in 1992. He also served as co-guest editor for the Special issue on Dynamic Routing, IEEE Communications Magazine, 1990.
In 1999, he turned to academia as a university professor. He began to widen his activities on network traffic control, opening up new areas in communications technologies. Two of these areas are Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Internet Traffic Measurement and Control, which require the most highly advanced and sophisticated traffic control technologies. In 2003, he has founded the Ad Hoc Network Consortium for cooperation between academia and industries and now serves as its Chair.
He served as a co-head referee for the Quality of Service in Computer Networks Track of GLOBECOM 2001, Technical Program Chair of the 2002 CQR Workshop, with the IEEE Communication Quality and Reliability Technical Committee as co-sponsor, General Chair, 7-th Asia Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2003), co-supported by IEEE CNOM and IEEE APB, and Chair, IEEE Communication Quality and Reliability Technical Committee in 2006 and 2007. During his term as the CQR Chair, he proposed to hold a technical program composed of the selected open-call based papers in addition to the traditional strategic program based on invited speakers in the anual CQR workshops, which has contributed to widen the participation to the succeeding workshops. These activities have contributed to promoting research and development in the field of QoS and traffic management worldwide.
Kenichi Mase received the B. E., M. E., and Dr. Eng. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1970, 1972, and 1983, respectively. He joined Musashino Electrical Communication Laboratories of NTT Public Corporation in 1972. He was Executive Manager, Communications Quality Laboratory, NTT Telecommunications Networks Laboratories from 1994 to 1996 and Communications Assessment Laboratory, NTT Multimedia Networks Laboratories from 1996 to 1998. He moved to Niigata University in 1999 and is now Professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan. He received IEICE best paper award for the year of 1993 and the Telecommunications Advanced Foundation award in 1998. His research interests include communications network design and traffic control, quality of service, mobile ad hoc networks and wireless mesh networks. He was President of IEICE-CS in 2008. Prof. Mase is an IEEE and IEICE Fellow.
For driving relentless innovation, systems automation excellence, and operational discipline to deliver unprecedented reliability and performance on the world's largest network.
Kevin Peters, Chief Marketing Officer, AT&T
Kevin Peters, Chief Marketing Officer of AT&T Business Solutions, is responsible for delivering leading-edge network, application, and telecommunication solutions to all of AT&T’s business customers. He is also championing the “One AT&T” movement, identifying and implementing strategic changes toward improving the company’s speed, flexibility, and innovation.
Before being appointed to his current position, Peters was the Executive Vice President of Global Network Operations for AT&T, with responsibility for the health and maintenance of AT&T’s worldwide network across the company’s full suite of local, national, and global wireline and wireless services. The AT&T global IP backbone network provides wireless and wireline services to customers worldwide, including 100 percent of Fortune 1000 companies, and under the leadership of Peters, the network achieved – and continues to achieve – 99.999 percent reliability.
Since joining AT&T in 1986, Peters has held a variety of key executive positions within the company, including Senior Vice President of Enterprise Systems and Software, where he was responsible for managing convergence of network and business systems and their related IT infrastructure; and Vice President and Chief Engineer, where he was responsible for the transformation of the company’s global IP/MPLS network. His wide range of experience gives him broad experience and knowledge of communication networks and technologies, and their corresponding business and network operations. During his time with AT&T, Peters has been responsible for driving innovation throughout AT&T’s worldwide network.
Peters received his B.S from Fairfield University, M.S. in Information and Technology Management from the Stevens Institute of Technology, M.B.A. from Columbia University, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University. He is currently a board member for the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) and the Howe School Alliance for Technology Management at the Stevens Institute of Technology.
Andres Servida, Head of Internet, Network and Information Security Unit, European Commission
For visionary leadership, guidance & facilitation for both the private & public sector that is resulting in breakthrough initiatives in partnerships affecting the availability & robustness of electronic communications infrastructure through adoption of the precedent-setting ARECI Study guidance; for his encouragement to others to take initiatives that are positive toward meaningful collaboration; and for applying his intellectual faculties with an intensity to technical policy problem solving that has gone beyond the call of duty and serves as a role model for public sector policy stewards.
Andrea Servida joined the European Commission in 1993 and since January 2006 he is Deputy Head of the Unit "Internet; Network and Information Security" in the Information Society and Media Directorate-General. Besides co-managing the Unit, he is in charge of defining and implementing the strategies and policies on network and information security, critical information infrastructure protection and electronic signature. In this regard, he conceived and developed new mechanisms to engage, at the European level, public and private sector in partnership to enhance the robustness and resilience of ICT infrastructures. He also coordinates the team responsible for the European network and Information Agency (ENISA).
Until 2005, he worked in the Information Society Technologies Thematic Priority of FP6 with management responsibilities for the research activities on security and dependability technologies and applications. In the 5th Framework Programme, he has been in charge of shaping up and co-ordinating at the Programme level the initiative on Dependability in Information Society (called DEPPY), including the preparation and management of related Cross Programme Actions calls for proposals and evaluation. This initiative focused on large scale information infrastructures and on extensively deployed networked embedded systems. Before joining the European Commission he has worked in industry for nearly eight years as a project manager of a number of international R&D projects on decision support systems for environmental, civil and industrial emergency and risk management. He graduated with Laude in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and carried out PhD studies on fuzzy sets and artificial intelligence at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
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