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Robert Doverspike
Executive Director,
Network Evolution Research
AT&T Labs (Research)

Main Office
Room A5-1G12
200 S. Laurel Ave
Middletown, NJ 07748
(732) 420-9025
(713) 559-3011 [FAX]

Florham Park Office
180 Park Avenue, Bldg 103
Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971
(973) 360-8712
(973) 360-8050 [FAX]


 

Interests:

KEY PATENTS

Method For Unidirectional And Bidirectional Label Switched Path Setup in a Label Switched Network, R. Doverspike, R., C. Kalmanek, G. Li, J. Yates, Patent Number 7,298,700,  Nov 20, 2007.

Method for selecting a restoration path in a mesh network, R. Doverspike, C. Kalmanek, G. Li, U.S. Patent Number 6,982,951,  January 3, 2006.

Methods and systems for fast restoration in a mesh network of optical cross connects,  R. Doverspike., G. Sahin; J. Strand, R. Tkach, U.S. Patent Number 6,970,417. November 29, 2005.

Optical layer quasi-centralized restoration,  R. Doverspike, U.S. Patent Number 6,097,696. August 8, 2000.

KEY PAPERS

Commercial Optical Networks, Overlay Networks and Services, by R. Doverspike and P. Magill, in Optical Fiber Telecommunications V B, Chapter 13, Elsevier 2008.

IP Over Optical Cross-Connect Architectures, by G. Li, D. Wang, J. Yates, R. Doverspike, C. Kalmanek,  IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 45 (2), February 2007, pp. 34-39.

Service-Driven Networks for Packet-Aware Transport, by R. Doverspike, K. K. Ramakrishnan, J. Wei, J. Pastor, and C. Kalmanek, OFC-2005, Anaheim, CA, March 2005.

Packet Aware Transport for Metro Networks, by T. Afferton, R. Doverspike, C. Kalmanek, and K. K. Ramakrishnan, IEEE Communications Magazine, March, 2004, pp. 120-127.

Network Studies in IP/Optical Layer Restoration, by Steven Phillips, Nick Reingold, Robert Doverspike, OFC-2002, Anaheim, CA, March 2002.

Handling IP Traffic Surges via Optical Layer Reconfiguration, by Panita Pongpaibool, Robert Doverspike, Matthew Roughan, Joel Gottlieb, OFC-2002, Anaheim, CA, March 2002.

Fiber Span Failure Protection in Mesh Optical Networks, by Guangzhi Li, Bob Doverspike and Chuck Kalmanek, Optical Networks Magazine, Vol. 3, (3), May/June 2002, pp 21-31.

Efficient Distributed Path Selection for Shared Restoration Connections, by
Guangzhi Li, Dongmei Wang, Charles Kalmanek, Robert Doverspike, INFOCOM-2002, New York, June 2002.

Experiments in Fast Restoration using GMPLS in Optical / Electronic Mesh Networks, by Guangzhi Li, Jennifer Yates, Robert Doverspike and Dongmei Wang, Postdeadline Papers Digest, OFC-2001, Anaheim, CA, March 2001.

Challenges For MPLS in Optical Network Restoration, by Robert Doverspike, Jennifer Yates, IEEE Communications Magazine, February 2000, Vol. 39 (2), pp. 89-97.

Importance Of Wavelength Conversion In An Optical Network, by John Strand, Robert Doverspike, Guangzhi Li, Optical Networks Magazine, May/June 2000, Vol 2 (3), pp. 33-44.

Robust Restoration in Optical Cross-connects, by Robert Doverspike and John Strand, Feb 2000.

Transport Network Architectures in an IP World, by Robert D. Doverspike, Steven Phillips, Jeffery R. Westbrook, INFOCOM-2000, March 2000, Tel-Aviv..

Transport Network Architectures in an IP World, by Robert D. Doverspike, Steven Phillips, Jeffery R. Westbrook, Proceedings of BT-sponsored Alliance Engineering Symposium, Oslo, Norway, June 1999.

Future Transport Network Architectures, by Robert D. Doverspike, Steven Phillips, Jeffery R. Westbrook, IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on "Reliable Communication Networks, August 1999, Vol. 37 (8), pp. 96-101.

Fast Restoration in a Mesh Network of Optical Cross-connects, by Robert D. Doverspike, Gokhan Sahin, John L. Strand, Robert W. Tkach, OFC-99, San Diego Feb 1999.
 


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