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Dr. Meir Herzberg

1948-2013

Career Objective:

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  Applying Analysis Methods and Planning Tools to Telecom Networks, Systems and Services
  
• Academia Lecturing of Selected Courses that Reflect my Areas of Expertise

Education

• Ph.D. – Operations Research Dept., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio, 1988.
  
• M.Sc. – Operations Research Dept., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio, 1985.
  
• MBA – Business Administration School, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1980.
  
• B.Sc. – Electrical Engineering Dept., University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba, Israel, 1975.

Employment

• ECI Telecom (Lightscape Networks, Tadiran Telecommunications), Petach Tikva, Israel, 1997 – 2013

Associate VP, Network-planning Tools, R&D, Transport Network Division (TND); Activity areas:

– Development of Software and Optimization Methods for Network-planning Tools

– Analysis and Synthesis of Synchronous and Asynchronous Transport Networks

– Analysis of Internet-offload Solutions for the PSTN

– Life Cycle Cost (LCC) Analysis for Telecommunication Transport Networks

• Telstra (Telecom Australia) Research Laboratories, Clayton Victoria, Australia, 1990 – 1997. Project Leader – Network Analysis Section, Research areas:

–STM and ATM Self-Healing Survivable Networks.

– Bandwidth Management in Re-configurable Networks.

– Multi-Hour/Multi-Service Analysis, Telstra’s National & International Network Parts.

– Markov Decision Processes: Theory & Applications to Private and Cellular Networks.

– Switched and Dedicated Wideband Services.

– Workload Analysis at Alarm Management Centers.

• Bezeq – The Israel Telecom. Corp., Engineering and Planning Division, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1986 – 1990, Activity areas:

– R & D, Developing and Testing Replacement of Equipment Models.

– Analysis of Packet Switching Data Networks.

– Routing Planning in Wide Area Private Networks.

• General Electric Company, Marketing Division, Cleveland Ohio, 1984 – 1985.

– System Analysis: Working as an Analyst with DEC and Honeywell computers. Database software included: Datatrieve, QRP and FORTRAN programming.

Israel Ministry of Communications, Engineering Service

– Traffic and Operations Dept., Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1974 – 1984. Section Engineer: Quality of Service. Activity Areas:

– Planning of PSTN and National-numbering Plan

– Statistics of Traffic Measurements, Traffic Observations, Test Calls and Billing.

– Traffic Load and Workload Analysis at Operator Service Centers.

– Traffic Network Management and Common Channel Signaling.

– Announcement Recording Systems.

Awards

• Excellence Lecturing Award, 2000 – Tel-Aviv University: Granted following the Annual Students Survey; obtained top scoring on the various criteria considered.
  
• High Achievement Award, 1995 – Telstra Research Laboratories (TRL): Granted as a team leader for re-engineering Telstra’s inter-capital Digital Services Protection Network (DSPN) and consequently the saving of equipment worth over Aus$20M (US$16M).
  
• Ph.D. Studies in the USA, 1984-1985 – Ministry of Communications, Israel: Granted following contributions made in areas of Quality of Service and Network Planning.

Lecturing

• Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel – Dept. of Computer Sciences, 2007 – current. Course Lecturing on Resource Management in Telecommunication Networks.
  
• Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel – Faculty of Exact Sciences, 1998 – current. Course Lecturing & Thesis Advisory on Resource Management in Telecommunication Networks.
  
• Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria, Australia – Electrical Engineering Department, 1995-1997. Teletraffic Engineering Courses;
  
• Victoria Institute of Technology, Victoria, Australia – Electrical Engineering Department, 1991-1996, Graduate Telecommunications Courses.

Personal

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  Married + 3 graduate children

Publications (chronological order)

• Herzberg M., “Automatic Message Supervision System (AMSS)”, International Teletraffic Congress No. 9, Torremolinos, Spain, 1979.
  
• “——–”, “Optimization of Switching Structures and Trunk Allocation for SxS and Motor Selector Exchanges”, Thesis work for the M.A. Degree, Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1980.
  
• Becker S. and “——–”, “ ‘Killer Numbers’ and ‘Killer Routes’ in Telephone Networks”, International Teletraffic Congress No. 10, Montreal, Canada, 1983.
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  “——–”, “Replacement of Equipment in Public Telephone Networks due to Impacts of Digital Technology – Process and Optimization”, Ph.D. Dissertation, Cleveland, Ohio, 1988.
  
• “——–”, “Optimal Assignment of Remote Switching Units to Digital Telephone Exchanges”, International Teletraffic Congress No. 12, Torino, Italy, 1988.
  
• “——–”, “Comparative Analysis of WIN-Megalink and ISDN-Marcolink”, Telecom Australia Research Lab.,- Internal Research Report, May 1990.
  
• “——–” and Yechiali U., “A Modified Value Iteration Algorithm for Undiscounted Markov and Semi-Markov Decision Processes, Based on One-step Look-ahead Analysis”, 5 th Australian Teletraffic Research Seminar, Melbourne, Australia, 1990.
  
• “——–” “A Successive Approximation Method for a Two Dimension Engset Model with Applications to PENEE Project”, Telecom Australia Research Lab., – Internal Research Report, Jan. 1991.
  
• “——–” and Yechiali U., “Criteria for Selecting the Relaxation Factor of the Value Iteration Algorithm for Undiscounted Markov and Semi-Markov Decision Processes”, Operations Research Letters Vol. 10/4, 1991.
  
• “——–”, “Strategies for Traffic Routing and Traffic Control in Circuit-Switched Networks”, Telecom Australia Research Lab., – Internal Research Report, Apr. 1991.
  
• “——–”, “An Optimal Decision Process for Routing Circuit-Switched Calls Originated by Users of a Private Distribution Network”, International Teletraffic Congress No 13, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1991
  
• “——–”, “Network Bandwidth Management – A New Direction in Network Management”, 6 th Australian Teletraffic Research Seminar, Wollongong, Australia, 1991
  
• “——–”, “Markov Decision Processes with Applications to Network Optimization”, 2 nd Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) Telecommunications Conference”, Boca Raton, Florida, 1992.
  
• Bye S.J. and “——–”, “Computational Aspects of Bandwidth Management for Reconfigurable Networks”, 7 th Australian Teletraffic Research Seminar, Adelaide, Australia, 1992.
  
• “——–”, “Spare-Channel Assignment Procedures for Self-Healing Networks”, 7 th Australian Teletraffic Research Seminar, Adelaide, Australia, 1992.
  
• “——–”, “A Linear-Programming Model for Virtual Path Allocation and Management in B-ISDN”, 2 nd Australian Broadband Switching and Services Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, 1992.
  
• “——–”, “Phase ‘0’ and Action Elimination of Generally Modified Value Iteration Algorithms for Markov Decision Processes”, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operations Research (APJOR), Vol. 10/2, 1993.
  
• “——–” and McMillan D., “State Dependent Control of Call Arrivals in Layered Cellular Mobile Networks”, Telecommunications Systems Vol. 1/4, 1993.
  
• “——–” and Pitsillides A., “A Hierarchical Approach for the Bandwidth Allocation, Management and Control in B-ISDN”, International Communication Conference (ICC), Geneva, Switzerland, 1993.
  
• “——–” and Bye S.J., “Bandwidth Management in Re-configurable Networks”, Australian Telecommunication Research (ATR) Vol. 27/2, 1993.
  
• “——–”, “Bandwidth Management in Re-configurable B-ISDN”, IEEE/IFIP International Network-Management Workshop, Cracow, Poland, 1993.
  
• “——–”, “A Decomposition Approach to Assign Spare Channels in Self-healing Networks”, GLOBECOM’93, Houston, Texas, 1993. 
  
• Bye S.J. and “——–”, “Practical Considerations of Modeling Service Protection in Telecommunications Networks”, 8 th Australian Teletraffic Research Seminar, Melbourne, Australia, 1993.
  
• “——–” and Bye S.J., “Bandwidth Management in Re-configurable Multi-Service Networks”, 8 th Australian Teletraffic Research Seminar, Melbourne, Australia, 1993.
  
• “——–” and Yechiali U., “Accelerating Procedures of Value Iteration Algorithms for Discounted Markov Decision Processes Based on One-step Look-ahead Analysis”, Operations Research Journal, Vol. 42/5, 1994.
  
• “——–” and Bye S.J., “An Optimal Spare-channel Assignment Model for Survivable Networks with Hop Limits”, GLOBECOM’94, San-Francisco, California, 1994.
  
• “——–” and Bye S.J., “Spare-Capacity Assignment in Survivable Networks for MultiLink and Node Failures with Hop Limits”, 6 th International Network Planning Symposium, NETWORKS’94, Budapest, Hungary, 1994.
  
• “——–”, “Spare-Capacity Assignment Models for Self-healing Survivable Networks”, Korea Telecom International Symposium (KETIS’94), Seoul, Korea, 1994 (Invited Paper).
  
• Utano A. and “——–”, “Optimal Location/Allocation of Network Resources in Multiple Self-healing Rings”, Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC’94), Melbourne, Australia, 1994.
  
• Herschtal A. and “——–”, “Dynamic Capacity Allocation and Optimal Rearrangement in Re-configurable Networks, GLOBECOM’95, Singapore, 1995.
  
• “——–”, Bye S.J. and Utano A., “The Hop-Limit Approach for Spare Capacity Assignment in Survivable Networks”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Vol. 5/6, 1995.
  
• Ouveysi I. and “——–”, “Multi-hour Traffic Analysis (Local + STD) for the Perth’s Metropolitan Network”, Telstra Research Labs., – Internal Research Report, May 1995.
  
• Payne A. and “——–”, “The Digital Services Protection Network (DSPN) Project”, Telstra Research Labs., – Internal Research Report, Oct. 1996.
  
• “——–” and Yechiali U., “A K-Step Look-ahead Analysis of Value Iteration Algorithms for Markov Decision Processes”, European Journal of Operations Research (EJOR) Vol. 88, 1996.
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  “——–” and Utano A., “Optimal Assignment of Spare Capacity to Back-Up Virtual Paths in Survivable ATM Networks”, 7 th International Network Planning Symposium, NETWORKS’96, Sydney, Australia, 1996.
  
• “——–”, Wells D. and Herschtal A., “Optimal Resource Allocation for Path Restoration in Mesh-type Self-healing Networks”, International Teletraffic Congress No. 15, Washington D.C., 1997.
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  “——–” and Shleifer F., “Optimization Models for the Design of Bi-directional Self-healing Ring Based Networks”, International Teletraffic Congress No.16, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1999. 
  
• “——–” and Rubinstein Z., “Parametric Analysis of Internet Off-load Solutions in the PSTN”, Internet Teletraffic Evaluation Solution Forum (ITESF), Orlando Florida, 1999.
  
• “——–”, Weinerman Y., Brodesky G. and Shaked T., “Resource Allocation to Back-up VPs in ATM Survivable Networks with Service Differentiation”, Conference on Design Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN’2000), Munich, Germany, 2000.
  
• “——–”, “Evolutionary Trends in Transmission Network Architectures”, 10 th International Network Strategy and Planning Symposium, NETWORKS’2002, Munich, Germany, 2002.
  
• “——–” and Hermon Z., “LightPlan TM: The Network Planning Tool in the XDM Era”, Internal ECI Telecom Report, Optical Network Division, April 2003,
  
• “——–”, “The Cycle-oriented Approach: A Pragmatic Concept for Resource Allocation in Multi-service Survivable Networks”, 11 th International Network Strategy and Planning Symposium, NETWORKS’2004, Vienna, Austria, 2004.
  
• “——–”, Zolberg O. and Kanat Y., “Backbone Transmission Network Planning to Cope with Double Failures”, Internal ECI Telecom Report, Optical Network Division, October 2004.
• “——–” , Zander R. and Kanat Y., “MS-Spring Planning in Highly Loaded Networks”, Internal ECI Telecom Report, Optical Network Division, April 2005.
  
• “——–” and Raz D., “Resource Allocation in Multi-service Survivable Networks Based on the Cycle-oriented Approach”, International Teletraffic Congress No.19, Beijing, China, 2005.
  
• “——–”, “The Dual MS-Spring Configuration for XDM-100 Network Elements”, Internal ECI Telecom Report, Optical Network Division, August 2005
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  “——–”, Shleifer F., Ring R. and Zolberg O., “Applying the Cycle-oriented Approach to Multi-domain, Multi-service Survivable Networks”, Conference on Design Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN’2005), Naples, Italy, 2005.
  
• “——–”, “A Generic Overlay-Network Solution, Using XDM-1000 Network Elements in Customer Transport Networks”, Internal ECI Telecom Report, TND, February 2007.
  
• “——–”, Shleifer F., Ring R. and Zolberg O., “Applying OD Cycles to Multi-domain, Multi-service Survivable Networks”, 3 rd EURO-NGI Conference on Next Generation Internet Networks – Session on Robustness, Trondheim, Norway 2007.
  
• “——–” and Raz D., “Optimal Assignment of Pre-cross-connect Trails to Shared Backup Path Protection Resources”, International Network Optimization Conference (INOC’2007), Spa, Belgium, 2007.
  
• “——–”, “Multi-objective Optimization of Wavelength Assignment in Optical Networks”, Internal ECI Telecom Report, TND, August 2007.
  
• “——–”, Shleifer F. and Ring R., “Compound OD Cycles for a Wide Variety of Policies for Survivability in Transport Networks” (submitted for publications)