ARMAND M. MAKOWSKI (armand@isr.umd.edu)

• Professor, Electrical Engineering
• Associated with the Institute for Systems Research

• Traffic characterization and modeling in communication networks
  (e.g., TCP modeling and web caching)
• Resource allocation issues in wireless networks
• Queueing systems and asymptotic methods for performance evaluation in communication networks
• Stochastic systems and adpative algorithms (e.g., swarm intelligence)

Armand M. Makowski received the Licence en Sciences Mathematiques from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 1975, the M.S. degree in Engineering-Systems Science from U.C.L.A. in 1976 and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Kentucky in 1981. In August 1981, he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland at College Park, where he is presently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

He has held a joint appointment with the Institute for Systems Research since its establishment in 1985, and was its Associate Director for Research during 1995--1996. He is also a co--founder of and active participant in the Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks, a NASA center for the development and commercialization of space.

He has held visiting positions at the Technion (Israel), INRIA (France), IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (Hawthorne), AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill) and AT&T Research Labs (Florham Park). Armand Makowski was a C.R.B. Graduate Fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation for the academic year 1975-76; he is also a 1984 recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award.

Relevant publications

M. Parulekar and A.M. Makowski, "Tail probabilities for a multiplexer driven by $M|G|\infty$ input processes (I): Preliminary Asymptotics," Queueing Systems - Theory & Applications {\bf 27} (1997), pp. 271--296.

A.M. Makowski, "Long-range dependence does not necessarily imply non-exponential tails," IEEE Communications Letters {\bf ICLEF 6} (2002), pp. 550-552.

P. Tinnakornsrisuphap and A. M. Makowski, "Limit behavior of ECN/RED gateways under a large number of TCP flows," in Proceedings of Infocom'03, San Francisco (CA), April 2003.

O. Bahat and A. M. Makowski, "Optimal replacement policies for non-uniform cache objects with optional eviction," in Proceedings of Infocom'03, San Francisco (CA), April 2003.

P. Tinnakornsrisuphap, R. La and A. M. Makowski, "Modeling TCP traffic with session dynamics - Many sources asymptotics under ECN/RED gateways," in Proceedings of the 18th International Teletraffic Congress, Berlin (Germany), August 2003.

J.-H. Yoo, R. J. La and A. M. Makowski, "Convergence properties For uniform ant routing," IEEE Communications Letters, submitted.