Optimization of Computer Networks

About the Author

Pablo Pavón Mariño is Associate Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Spain) and Head of GIRTEL research group, MSc and Ph.D in Telecommunications, and MSc in Mathematics, with specialization in operations research. His research interests in the last 15 years are in optimization, planning, and performance evaluation of computer networks. He has more than a decade track as a lecturer in network optimization courses. He is author or co-author of more than 100 research papers in the field, published in top journals and international conferences, as well as several patents. He leads the Net2Plan open-source initiative, which includes the Net2Plan tool and its associated public repository of algorithms and network optimization resources (www.net2plan.com). Pablo Pavón has served as chair in international conferences like IEEE HPSR 2011, ICTON 2013 or ONDM 2016. He is Technical Editor of the Optical Switching and Networking journal, and has participated as Guest Editor in other journals such as Computer Networks, Photonic Network Communications, and IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking.