Handbook of Optimization in Telecommunications








Contributing Author

John Doucette

Handbook of Optimization in Telecommunications
John Doucette is an Assistant Professor in Engineering Management  in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of  Alberta and an Adjunct Scientist in the Network Systems group at  TRLabs. He received a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Dalhousie University  in 1992, a B.Eng. in Industrial Engineering from the Technical  University of Nova Scotia (TUNS, now Dalhousie University) in 1996,  and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta in 2004. He has been with the Department of Mechanical Engineering since 2005, has held various positions within TRLabs since 1997, and he was an instructor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta from 1998 to 2002, where he taught courses in probability and statistics and in telecommunication systems engineering. Dr. Doucette has published approximately 20 conference and journal papers, a book chapter, and approximately 15 technical reports and presentations. He has patents granted or pending on four topics, and is a P.Eng. in the province of Alberta. He has twice been one of three finalists for the Alberta Science and Technology (ASTech) Leadership Awards Foundation Leaders of Tomorrow Award and was awarded an Alberta Ingenuity Industrial Associateship in 2004. His current research interests include network restoration and protection, network planning and design, and network resource management and optimization.