Dr. Harry Perros

Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, NC State University. Dr. Harry Perros is a retired NC State University Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor and an IEEE Fellow. He received the B.Sc. degree in Mathematics in 1970 from Athens University, Greece, the M.Sc. degree in Operational Research with Computing from Leeds University, England, in 1971, and the Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, in 1975. He held visiting faculty positions at INRIA, Rocquencourt, France (1979), NORTEL, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (1988-89 and 1995-96), University of Paris 6, France (1995-96, 2000, 2002, 2012), University of Paris 13, France (2005-2006), and Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (2006). He published 220 journal and conference papers primarily in queueing theory and performance modeling of communication systems, and also in software modelling, A.I., trust management, and security. Also, he published seven print books: Queueing Networks with Blocking: Exact and Approximate Solutions, Oxford University Press 1994, An Introduction to ATM Networks, Wiley 2001, Connection-Oriented Networks, Wiley 2005, Networking Services: QoS, Signaling, Processes, Amazon.com 2014, VBR Video Traffic Models (with S. Tanwir), Wiley-ISTE 2014, Bandwidth Allocation for Video under QoS Constraints (with B. Anjum), Wiley-ISTE 2015, An Introduction to IoT Analytics, CSC press 2021, and a free e- book Computer Simulation Techniques - The Definitive Introduction, 2002, revised in 2021. In 1995 he founded the IFIP Working Group 6.3 on the Performance of Communication Systems, and he was the chairman from 1995 to 2002. He served as an associate editor of several Journals, edited several special issues and conference proceedings, and organized many international conferences. He was also the co-founder and program coordinator of the Master of Science degree in Computer Networks at NC State University.