Daniel Obi Awduche, MBA, Ph.D. Daniel Awduche has worked in various technical leadership and management positions over the past decade. Presently, he is employed by Verizon Business. Employment Dr. Awduche is a Fellow/PMTS in the Network Technology Organization at Verizon where he provides architecture and design oversight for Verizon's global public and private IP networks. Prior to his current appointment, he led the Internet Network Engineering organization for Verizon Business (a subsidiary of Verizon), responsible for network engineering of Verizon's public IP network, which is one of the largest IP networks in the world (previously known as UUNET). Prior to the acquisition of MCI by Verizon, Dr. Awduche managed the Internet Engineering organization for MCI. His previous appointments have included Chief Scientist at Marconi Broadband Routing and Switching, Vice President of Architecture and Educational Services at Movaz Networks, and 'Distinguished Technical Member' and acting Director of Global Network Architecture at UUNET. During his employment at UUNET, Daniel led a team of engineers engaged in architecture, design, and development activities aimed at UUNET's global IP network. He played a significant role in the architecture, design, and implementation of UUNET's backbone network, which was the largest Internet backbone in the world in the 1990's, conveying a substantial proportion of global Internet traffic. Among his many accomplishments at UUNET, Dr. Awduche orchestrated the first large scale deployment of MPLS technology in the world; driving the project from concept to operational manifestation in the UUNET global IP network. At a technical level, Dr. Awduche is a recognized authority on Internet traffic engineering, Internet network architecture, control plane software engineering for routers and optical switches, and advanced network protocol specification and synthesis. At a business level, Dr. Awduche has established a stellar track record for successfully supervising the architecture, design, and implementation of very large telecommunications projects; and is respected for his intimate understanding of the economics of the global Internet economy. Industry Leadership Dr. Awduche has a substantial record of service to the engineering profession, as evidenced by his contributions to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, (IEEE)., and the operational evolution of the Internet backbone infrastructure. In December 2005, EETimes listed Dr. Awduche as one of 29 innovators that have had a significant impact on a broad range of industry sectors. IETF Contributions Dr. Awduche has been involved in the development of Internet standards through his participation in the IETF. Within the IETF, he has served as Co-Chair of the IP-Over-Optical (IPO) Working Group. He helped to establish the IETF Internet Traffic Engineering Working Group and served as its initial Chairman. In addition, he has made fundamental contributions towards the advancement of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Generalized MPLS (GMPLS), Internet Traffic Engineering, and IP-Over-Optical control technologies. He is especially notable for championing the development and standardization of MPLS traffic engineering technology. The origins of Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) can be traced back to his pioneering work on MPLS traffic engineering and Multiprotocol Lambda Switching (MPLambdaS). He has also been very prominent in articulating some of the modern concepts of Internet traffic engineering. IEEE Contributions He was the Guest Editor of the October 2007 and December 2006 Special Issues of the IEEE Communications Magazine (Feature Topic on "Advances in Control and Management of Connection-Oriented Networks"). He has served as Guest Editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE, (along with Professor Bijan Jabbari, Yakov Rekhter, and Professor Jean Walrand): September 2002 Special Issue on "Internet Technology and the Convergence of Communications Services."  He was a Guest Editor of the October 2004 Special Issue of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). The topic of the Special Issue was "Advances in Metropolitan Optical Networks." He was the Conference Co-Chair for the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Control and Management of High Performance Networks (part of Globecom-2006). He initiated and organized the first International Workshop on MPLS (IW-MPLS'98), which focused exclusively on the emerging technology of Multiprotocol Label Switching. The workshop took place on November 12-13, 1998, in Fairfax, Virginia. He was the Technical Program Chair for the Second International Conference on MPLS, which took place on October 24-26, 1999, in McLean, Virginia. He is the Technical Program Chair for the 2008 International Conference on MPLS. He was the Technical Program Chair for the Third International Conference on MPLS, which took place on October 22-24, 2000, at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. He was the Technical Program Chair for the MPLS 2004 International Conference, which took place on October 17-19, 2000, in Washington, DC. He was the Co-Chair for the Conference on "Advanced Internet Protocols," which took place on Feb 23-24, 1999, in San Diego, California. He was the Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2001 IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing which took place on May 29-31, 2001, in Dallas, Texas. He has been an invited speaker at numerous leading industry conferences.  Education Dr. Awduche's academic background includes the M.S. degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; the MBA degree (concentration in Finance and Entrepreneurship) from George Mason University; and the Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from George Mason University. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM. Recent Papers IETF RFCS B. Rajagopalan, J. Luciani, D. Awduche, "IP over Optical Networks: A Framework," RFC-3717, March 2004 J. Boyle, V. Gills, A. Hannan, D. Cooper, D. Awduche, B. Christian, W. Lai, "Applicability Statement for Traffic Engineering with MPLS," RFC-3346, August 2002 D. Awduche, A. Chiu, A. Elwalid, I. Widjaja, X. Xiao, "Overview and Principles of Internet Traffic Engineering," RFC-3272, May 2002 D. Awduche, L. Berger, D. Gan, T. Li, G. Swallow, and V. Srinivasan "RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels," RFC-3209, December 2001. D. Awduche, A. Hannan, and X. Xiao, "Applicability Statement for Extensions to RSVP for LSP-Tunnels," RFC-3210, December 2001. D. Awduche, J. Malcolm, J. Agogbua, M. O'Dell, and J. McManus, "Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS," RFC-2702, September 1999. Additional Papers and IETF Internet Drafts D. Awduche and B. Jabbari, "Demand Assigned Capacity Management in IP over Optical (IPO) Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages: 900 - 913, August 2006. D. Awduche and B. Jabbari, "A Framework for Demand Assigned Capacity Management in IP over Optical (IPO) Networks," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC-2004), Paris, France, June 2004. J. Luciani, B. Rajagopalan, D. Awduche "IP over Optical Networks - A Framework," , draft-ietf-ipo-framework-05.txt, IETF INTERNET DRAFT, September 2003. This was previously available as: draft-ietf-ipo-framework-03.txt , January 2003 draft-ietf-ipo-framework-00.txt, July 2001. draft-many-ip-optical-framework-03.txt, March 2001 draft-many-ip-optical-framework-02.txt, December 2000 draft-many-ip-optical-framework-01.txt, July 2000 draft-ip-optical-framework-00.txt, March 2000. D. Awduche and B. Jabbari "Location Decision Problems in Inter-domain Routing," Submitted for publication, 2003. D. Dovolsky, I. Bryskin, D. Awduche "Limited Flooding As a Scalability Improvement to OSPF" draft-dovolsky-ccamp-ospf-limited-flooding-00.txt, IETF INTERNET DRAFT, November, 2002. D. Awduche and A. Farrel, "GMPLS Signaling Applicability Statement," draft-awduche-ipo-gmpls-signaling-applicability-00.txt, IETF INTERNET DRAFT, July, 2002. D. Awduche and B. Jabbari, "Internet Traffic Engineering Using Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)," (pdf), Journal of Computer Networks (Elsevier Science), Vol. 40, Issue (1), September 2002. D. Awduche, "Integrated Traffic Engineering in IP over Optical (IPO) Networks: General Considerations," National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC-2002), Dallas, TX, September 2002. D. Awduche, et al, "Characterization and Representation of Impairments for Routing and Path Control in all Optical Networks," National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC-2002), Dallas, TX, September 2002. D. Awduche, "Integrated Traffic Engineering in IP over Optical (IPO) Networks: Fundamental Concepts," SPIE ITCOM-2002, Boston, MA, August 2002. D. Awduche, A. Chiu, A. Elwalid, I. Widjaja, X. Xiao, "Overview and Principles of Internet Traffic Engineering," draft-ietf-tewg-principles-02.txt, IETF INTERNET DRAFT, November 2001. This was previously available as: draft-ietf-tewg-principles-00.txt, August 2001. "A Framework for Internet Traffic Engineering," draft-ietf-tewg-framework-04.txt, June 2001 J. Boyle, V. Gill, A. Hannan, D. Cooper, D. Awduche, B. Christian, W.S. Lai, "Applicability Statement for Traffic Engineering with MPLS," IETF INTERNET DRAFT, October 2001. A. Banerjee, J. Drake, J. Lang, B. Turner, D. Awduche, L. Berger K. Kompella, and Y. Rekhter, "Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS): Overview of Signaling Enhancements and Recovery Techniques," (pdf), Overview of Signaling Enhancements and Recovery Techniques," (pdf), IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2001. July 2001. D. Awduche, "Dynamic Wavelength Management: Signaling and Routing Considerations," SPIE ITCOM Conference, (Conference 4526: Scalability and Traffic Control), August, 2001. D. Awduche, Z. Mansourati, and A. Vernon "Signaling and Routing Enhancements to Support Dynamic Wavelength Management" National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC-2001), Baltimore, July 2001. D. Awduche and Y. Rekhter, "Multiprotocol Lambda Switching," (pdf), IEEE Communications Magazine, March 2001. Eric Mannie -- Editor, "Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Architecture,"  draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-architecture-00.txt, November 2001 This was previously available as: draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-architecture-00.txt, July 2001 draft-many-gmpls-architecture-00.txt, February 2001. O. Aboul-Magd, D. Awduche, C. Brownmiller, J. Eaves, R. Hoebeke, H. Ishimatsu, M. Lazer, G. Li, M. Mayer, A. Nagarajan, L. Neir, S. Patel, Eve Varma, Y. Xue, J. Yates, "A Framework for Generalized Multi-protocol Label Switching (GMPLS)," , draft-many-ccamp-gmpls-framework-00.txt, 2001. Y. Xue, D. Awduche, M. Lazer, J. Strand, J. Yates, L. McAdams, O. Aparicio, R. Dottin,and R. Aggarwal, "Carrier Optical Services Framework and Associated UNI Requirements," draft-many-carrier-framework-uni-00.txt, IETF INTERNET DRAFT, November 2000. Yangguang Xu, D. Awduche, Eve Varma, Yong Xue, Ramesh Nagarajan, Curtis Brownmiller, Dimitri Papadimitriou,Rudy Hoebeke, John Eaves, Osama Aboul-Magd, Michael Mayer, Hirokazu Ishimatsu, Raj Jain, "Generalized MPLS Control Plane Architecture: for Automatic Switched Transport Network," draft-xu-mpls-ipo-gmpls-rch-00.txt, IETF INTERNET DRAFT, November 2000. D. Awduche, "Multiprotocol Lambda Switching: Fundamental Concepts," Presented at: Internet II: Quality of Service and Future Directions (VV01), Boston, Mass, November 2000. K. Kompella, D. Awduche, "Notes on Path Computation in Constraint-Based Routing," , draft-kompella-te-pathcomp-00.txt, IETF INTERNET DRAFT, July 2000. K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, D. Awduche, A. Hannan, G. Hjalmtysson, J. Lawrence, S. Okamoto, D. Basak, G. Bernstein, J. Drake, N. Margalit, and E. Stern, "Extensions to IS-IS/OSPF and RSVP in support of MPL(ambda)S," draft-kompella-mpls-optical-00.txt, IETF INTERNET DRAFT, February 2000. D. Awduche, A. Chiu, A. Elwalid, I. Widjaja, X. Xiao, "A Framework for Internet Traffic Engineering" draft-ietf-tewg-framework-05.txt, IETF INTERNET DRAFT, June 2001. This was previously available as: draft-ietf-tewg-framework-04.txt, April 2001. draft-ietf-tewg-framework-03.txt, March 2001 draft-ietf-tewg-framework-02.txt">, July 2000. draft-ietf-tewg-framework-01.txt"> May 2000. draft-ietf-tewg-framework-00.txt"> January 2000. D. Awduche, Y. Rekhter, J. Drake, and R. Coltun, "Multi-Protocol Lambda Switching: Combining MPLS Traffic Engineering Control With Optical Crossconnects," draft-awduche-mpls-te-optical-03.txt, IETF INTERNET DRAFT, April, 2001. This was previously available as: draft-awduche-mpls-te-optical-02.txt, July, 2000. draft-awduche-mpls-te-optical-01.txt, November 1999 draft-awduche-mpls-te-optical-00.txt October, 1999. D. Basak, D. Awduche, J. Drake, and Y. Rekhter, "Multi-protocol Lambda Switching: Issues in Combining MPLS Traffic Engineering Control With Optical Crossconnects," draft-basak-mpls-oxc-issues-00.txt, IETF INTERNET DRAFT, January 2000. D. Awduche, "Location Decision Problems in Internet Inter-Domain Routing " Submitted for Publication, 1999. D. Awduche, A. Hannan, and X. Xiao, "Applicability Statement for Extensions to RSVP for LSP-Tunnels" draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-tunnel-applicability-02.txt, IETF INTERNET DRAFT, April 2001. This was previously available as: draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-tunnel-applicability-01.txt, April 2000 draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-tunnel-applicability-00.txt, draft-awduche-mpls-rsvp-tunnel-applicability-00.txt, D. Awduche, "MPLS and Traffic Engineering in IP Networks" (pdf), IEEE Communications Magazine, December 1999 . E. Dinan, D. Awduche, and B. Jabbari, "Analytical Framework for Dynamic Traffic Partitioning in MPLS Networks," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC-2000), New Orleans, Louisiana, June 18-22, 2000. E. Dinan, D. Awduche, and B. Jabbari, "Optimal Traffic Partitioning in MPLS," Networking 2000 (Net2000), May 14 - 19, 2000, Paris, France. Also available in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS-1815 , Springer-Verlag, 2001. T. Li, G. Swallow, and D. Awduche, "IGP Requirements for Traffic Engineering with MPLS," draft-li-mpls-igp-te-00.txt, IETF INTERNET DRAFT, February, 1999. D. Awduche, "On A Class Of Location Decision Problems In Inter-domain Routing" Applied Telecommunication Symposium (ATS'99), in conjunction with: Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC'99) San Diego, California, April 1999. D. Awduche, L. Berger, D. Gan, T. Li, G. Swallow, and V. Srinivasan "Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels," draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-lsp-tunnel-08.txt, IETF INTERNET DRAFT, February 2001 This was previously available as: draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-lsp-tunnel-06.txt, July 2000 draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-lsp-tunnel-00.txt, November 1998 D. Awduche, D. Gan, T. Li, G. Swallow, and V. Srinivasan  "Extensions to RSVP for Traffic Engineering," draft-swallow-mpls-rsvp-trafeng-00.txt, August, 1998. D. Awduche, J. Malcolm, J. Agogbua, M. O'Dell, and J. McManus, "Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS, RFC-2702, September 1999" This was previously available as: draft-ietf-mpls-traffic-eng-01.txt, June 1999 draft-ietf-mpls-traffic-eng-00.txt, October 1998 draft-awduche-mpls-traffic-eng-00.txt, April, 1998 D. Awduche, et al "An Approach To Optimal Peering Between Autonomous Systems in the Internet," International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N'98), Lafayette, Louisiana, October 1998, A. Ganz, J. Euh, D. Awduche, I. Kim, E. Haslett, S.H. Park, A. Phonphoem, and Z. Ganz, "Multimedia Wireless LAN Prototype," 3rd Telecommunications R&D conference in Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, November 1997. D. Awduche and E. Agu, "Mobile Extensions to RSVP", International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, IC3N'97, Las Vegas, September 22-25, 1997. D. Awduche, A. Gaylord, and A. Ganz, "On Resource Discovery in Distributed Systems with Mobile Hosts", Second ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM-96, New York, November 11-12, 1996. D. Awduche and A. Ganz, "MAC Protocol for Wireless Networks in Tactical Environments" IEEE Military Communications Conference, MILCOM-96, McLean, Virginia, Oct 21-24, 1996. D. Awduche, A. Ganz, and A. Gaylord, "An Optimal Search Strategy for Mobile Stations in Wireless Networks" IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communications, ICUPC-96, Cambridge, Mass, Sep 29-Oct 2, 1996. D. Awduche and A. Gaylord, "Quality of Service Considerations for Performance Monitoring in Large Distributed Systems." International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, (PDPTA-96), August 1996. D. Awduche and A. Ganz, "Synchronized Broadcast in Cellular Networks." Proceedings of the Second Technical Conference on Telecoms R&D in Massachusetts, March 12th, 1996, pp. 156-167. D. Awduche, A. Ganz, and A. Gaylord, "Minimum Cost Bayesian Framework for Location Identification in Wireless LANs" Unpublished Manuscript, 1996. D. Awduche, "An Application of Statistical Search Theory to Location Management in Wireless Networks" Unpublished Manuscript, 1996. D. Awduche and A. Gaylord, "Quality of Service Considerations for Performance Monitoring in Large Distributed Systems." Project Pilgrim Technical Report: UM-PILGRIM-95-05, 1995. D. Awduche and A. Gaylord, "Instrumentation Domains: A Framework for Performance Monitoring in Large Distributed Systems," Project Pilgrim Technical Report: UM-PILGRIM-95-04, 1995. D. Awduche and A. Gaylord, "MEGASCOPE: Resource Status Monitor for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems." Project Pilgrim Technical Report: UM-PILGRIM-95-02, 1995.   Address: Daniel O. Awduche  Verizon Business  22001 Loudoun County Parkway Ashburn VA 20147   awduche@awduche.com