[RPRWG] Charter and candidacy for the Performance adhoc committee for 802.17

[Sanjay Agrawal <sanjay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Charter and candidacy for the Performance adhoc committee for 802.17

To help 802.17 move forward I would like to announce my candidature for
the chairmanship of performance ad-hoc committee. As the chair of the
simulation ad-hoc group I will first work with 802.17 working group in
establishing a clear charter, list of deliverables and the timeline.

I think first the objectives and the charter of the simulation group must
be endorsed by the 802.17 working group. The working must be aware of
what the ad-hoc group is trying to accomplish and there should be
consensus built in the working group on the deliverables from the
simulation ad-hoc group. After this understanding is in place the ad-hoc
group must organize themselves to focus and deliver.

I would like to suggest the following charter for the simulation ad-hoc
group:
 
The purpose of the ad-hoc group is to provide the 802.17 working group a
set of parameters, the definition of these parameters, and the simulation
constraints in terms of traffic conditions and ring configurations to
compare various proposals.

I am sure this objective requires more refinement and I will work with
the working group and the simulation team members to ensure we have a
clear charter for the ad-hoc group.

Here are my list of qualifications that makes me feel confident in being
proactive, resolve decisions in the ad-hoc group and ensure that the ad-
hoc team is successful.

Industry Experience
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I have worked in several companies including Cisco Systems, Luminous
Networks, and Nuko Information Systems where I have done tremendous work
in implementing High speed IP switching in platforms like Catalyst 8500.
I have been a recognized expert on system level queuing, and scheduling
area. I have architected systems and chips for classification, traffic
shaping, and congestion control. I have driven several performance
modeling and simulation activities in the company to make architectural
tradeoffs.

Education
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I received my PH.D. in Optical Communications laboratory in Stanford
University.  My Ph.D. thesis was on queuing, scheduling and traffic
Modeling in Metro Optical networks. We developed and implemented 1.2gbps
Metro Optical Network in our lab. I have performed intensive performance
modeling and simulations in highspeed networking systems. I have used
several simulation packages including Opnet, NS2 etc.

Intellectual Achievement
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I have list of publications on QoS issues in IEEE journals and
conferences. I have written several successful proposals for research in
the area of QoS, including joint Cisco-University of California research
sponsored by ARPA with 5 million dollar funding. While at Cisco I was the
Principal Investigator for this research. In latter part of my work at
Cisco, I worked in the Office of CTO under Van Jacobson (designed and
implemented TCP/IP flow control) and Kathy Nichols (IETF chair of
Differentiated Service Committee). I learned a great deal about the
characteristics and limitations of data traffic in metro and core
networks.

I think that with my performance modeling experience, metro optical
packet switching architecture and implementation experience, I would be
able to lead the performance modeling group in taking proactive role in
identifying the objectives and deliver results in short period of time.

I ask for your vote to serve as the chairman of the Perf. Adhoc
committee.

Sanjay K. Agrawal
Technical Architect
Luminous Networks
Phone: (408) 342-6314
sanjay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx