School of Information Sciences

Richard A. Thompson

Professor

717A IS Building
412-624-9423

rat@tele.pitt.edu

Institution of highest degree:
Ph.D. University of Connecticut

Research Interests:

Communications switching systems, especially photonic switching; intelligent networks; terminals; user services and the human interface; fault tolerance and cellular automata; probabilistic formal languages.

Recent Publications:

Thompson, Richard, and B. Ngamwongwattana. April 2005. Variable Packetization for Reduced End-to-End Relay. IEEE CQR Workshop.

Thompson, Richard, and A. Rugsachart. April 2005. Testing Voice Quality and Internet Delay—Procedures and Results. IEEE CQR Workshop.

Thompson, Richard, and Shi Lu. April 2005. Routing Based on Operation, Delay, and Capacity. IEEE CQR Workshop.

Thompson, Richard. April 2004. Architecting a Ubiquitous Global Network. Telecommunications System Management Conference. Louisville, KY.

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