# Jean Walrand

### Research Areas

- Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences (IDNCS), Performance evaluation
- Game theory

### Research Centers

- Berkeley Laboratory for Information and System Sciences (BLISS)
- Tsinghua-UC Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI)

## Biography

He received his Ph.D. in EECS from UC Berkeley. He is the co-author of "Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction" (Morgan-Claypool 2010), "Scheduling and Congestion Control for Communication and Processing Networks" (Morgan-Claypool, 2010), "High-Performance Communication Networks" (2nd ed, Morgan Kaufman, 2000) and "Sharing Network Resources (Morgan-Claypool, 2014), and the author of An Introduction to Queueing Networks (Prentice Hall, 1988) and Probability in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Amazon, 2014). Prof. Walrand is a Fellow of the Belgian American Education Foundation and of the IEEE and a recipient of the INFORMS Lanchester Prize, the IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2012 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award and the 2013 ACM Sigmetrics Achievement Award.

## Selected Publications

- J. Walrand, M. Turner, and R. Myers, "An Architecture for In-Vehicle Network," CoRR, vol. abs/2012.11723, 2020.
- L. Huang, Y. Li, and J. Walrand, "citeKey, {RTCP} - Reduce Delay Variability with an End-to-end Approach," in 2020 {IFIP} Networking Conference, Networking 2020, Paris, France, June 22-26, 2020, {IEEE}, 2020, pp. 235--243.
- J. Walrand, "Convergence of a Distributed Kiefer-Wolfowitz Algorithm," CoRR, vol. abs/2008.12856, Sep. 2020.
- G. Cheng, K. Chandrasekher, and J. Walrand, "citeKey, Static {\&} Dynamic Appointment Scheduling with Stochastic Gradient Descent," in 2019 American Control Conference, {ACC} 2019, Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 10-12, 2019, {IEEE}, 2019, pp. 2092--2099.
- Y. Luo, N. B. Shah, J. Huang, and J. Walrand, "Parametric Prediction from Parametric Agents," Oper. Res., vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 313--326, 2018.
- J. Walrand and S. Parekh, citeKey, Communication Networks: {A} Concise Introduction, Second Edition, Synthesis Lectures on Communication Networks, Morgan {\&} Claypool Publishers, 2017.
- P. Maille, S. Parekh, and J. Walrand, "Overlaying Delay-Tolerant Service using SDN," July 2015.
- D. Lee, J. Mo, J. Walrand, and J. Park, "A Token Pricing Scheme for Internet Services," in ICQT, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6995, Springer, 2011, pp. 26-37.
- J. Musacchio, J. Walrand, R. Myers, S. Parekh, J. Mo, and G. Agarwal, "Backpressure Mechanism for Switch Fabric," U.S. Patent 7,983,287. July 2011.
- L. Jiang and J. Walrand, "Approaching throughput-optimality in distributed CSMA scheduling algorithms with collisions," IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 816-829, June 2011.
- D. Hausheer, A. Parekh, J. Walrand, and G. Schwartz, "Towards a compelling new Internet platform," in Proceedings of the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2011, IEEE, 2011, pp. 1224-1227.
- L. Jiang, V. Anantharam, and J. Walrand, "How bad are selfish investments in network security?," IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 549-560, April 2011.
- L. Jiang, M. Leconte, J. Ni, R. Srikant, and J. Walrand, "Fast mixing of parallel Glauber dynamics and low-delay CSMA scheduling," in INFOCOM, 2011, pp. 371-375.
- J. Lee and J. Walrand, "Optimism in games with non-probabilistic uncertainty," in Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2010, IEEE, 2010, pp. 4347-4352.
- L. Jiang, D. Shah, J. Shin, and J. Walrand, "Distributed Random Access Algorithm: Scheduling and Congestion Control," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 6182-6207, Nov. 2010.
- A. Gueye, J. Walrand, and V. Anantharam, "Design of Network Topology in an Adversarial Environment," in GameSec, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6442, Springer, 2010, pp. 1-20.
- R. Jain and J. Walrand, "An efficient Nash-implementation mechanism for network resource allocation," Automatica, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 1276-1283, Oct. 2010.
- N. Shetty, G. Schwartz, and J. Walrand, "Can Competitive Insurers Improve Network Security?," in TRUST, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6101, Springer, 2010, pp. 308-322.
- L. Jiang and J. Walrand, Scheduling and Congestion Control for Wireless and Processing Networks, Synthesis Lectures on Communication Networks, citeKey, Morgan {\&} Claypool Publishers, 2010.
- J. Walrand and S. Parekh, Communication Networks: A Concise Introduction, Synthesis Lectures on Communication Networks, citeKey, Morgan {\&} Claypool Publishers, 2010.

## Awards, Memberships and Fellowships

- IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, 2012
- IEEE ComSoc Stephen O. Rice Prize, 2000
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, 1993
- INFORMS Frederick W. Lanchester Prize, 1989