David Tipper
Chair, Telecommunications Program & Associate Professor
715 IS Building
412-624-9421
tipper@tele.pitt.edu
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Institution of highest degree:
Ph.D. University of Arizona
Research Interests:
Network design and traffic restoration; procedures for survivable networks; simulation and queuing theory with emphasis on transient/nonstationary behavior; virtual network design; and network control algorithms.
Recent Publications:
Y. Qian, K. Lu, B. Rong and D. Tipper, "Design of an optimal key managment scheme for secure and survivable wireless sensor networks” , Security and Communication Networks, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan./.Feb., 2008.
Y. Qian, J. Joshi, D. Tipper, and P. Krishnamurthy, Information Assurance: Dependability and Security in Networked Systems, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008. (editor, organizer and co-author of chapters 1, 4, and 15).
Y. Qian, K. Lu and D. Tipper, "A Design for Secure and Survivable Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 14, No. 5, October, 2007.
K. Vajanapoom and D. Tipper, "Risk Based Incremental Survivable Network Design ", Proceedings Sixth IEEE International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, (DRCN 2007) Oct. 7-10, 2007, La Rochelle, France.
Y. Liu, D.Tipper, K. Vajanapoom, "Spare Capacity Allocation in Two-Layer Networks" IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 974-986, June, 2007