About the Internet Society 

Board of Trustees

2002 Board Election

Organization Member Candidates

Dr. Bilel Jamoussi

Leader of Strategic Protocols & Standards, CTO Office
Nortel Networks
600 Technology Park
Billerica, MA 01821

Telephone and Fax Numbers: 978-288-4506 / 919-905-2649
E-mail Address: jamoussi@nortelnetworks.com

Significant expertise in the business and /or IT world
Biography: Dr. Bilel Jamoussi is responsible for Nortel Networks Strategic Protocols & Standards organization, within the Office of the CTO. In this capacity, Bilel provides strategic direction and coordination for Nortel's involvement in the IETF plus more than 30 additional accredited standards development organizations, and forums and consortia. Bilel has been with Nortel Networks for 8 years, during which time he has had a significant role in the development of traffic management, routing, and signaling protocols on Nortel products (e.g. Passport Multi-Service Switch).

Bilel has actively contributed to the work of numerous IETF WGs (e.g. MPLS, PPVPN, PWE3, CCAMP), both as author and editor of Internet Drafts, RFCs, and technical papers. Bilel received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. Bilel's Ph.D. Dissertation was on TCP/IP Traffic Analysis and its application to ATM Network Design. His MS Thesis was on the design and implementation of an IP remote Ethernet bridge.

Fundraising capability (proven)
Bilel has been instrumental in Nortel Networks' continued support of the ISOC as a Platinum member. Bilel has had budget management responsibility at Nortel Networks for several years. While at Penn State, Bilel was president of the International Student Council for several years. This position required fund raising for the organization and regular meetings with the University leadership (VPs and President).

Pioneering influence able to enhance ISOC's global credibility and
visibility
Bilel is a world recognized expert on MPLS and related protocols and applications. He is a member of several steering/scientific committees, and he continues to be an invited speaker at many leading industry conferences:

• Invited Speaker at NGN Conference http://www.bcr.com/ngn/thursday.asp#s16a
• Key Note Speaker at MPLSCon http://www.mplscon.com/
• Invited Speaker at MPLS World
  http://www.upperside.fr/congress02/mplsworld2002pro.htm
• Invited Speaker at GMU/UUNet MPLS Conference
  http://www.mpls2001.com/technical.htm

Bilel is Editor, or Co-author, of many Internet Drafts and RFCs, e.g, RFC 2340, 3212, 3213, 3214. Bilel has attended IETF regularly since IETF-40 in December 1997. Since then, Bilel has only missed one IETF meeting (coincident with the birth of his son).

Select IEEE Publications:

• QoS and service interworking using constraint route label distribution
  protocol (CR-LDP). Aboul-Magd, O.; Jamoussi, B.
• IEEE Communications Magazine , Volume: 39 Issue: 5 , May 2001
  Page(s): 134 -139
• Traffic engineering standards in IP-networks using MPL. Ghanwani, A.; Jamoussi, B.; Fedyk, D.; Ashwood-Smith, P.; Li Li; Feldman, N.
• IEEE Communications Magazine , Volume: 37 Issue: 12 , Dec. 1999
  Page(s): 49 -53
• Performance evaluation of connection admission control techniques in ATM networks. Jamoussi, B.; Rabie, S.; Aboul-Magd, O.
• Global Telecommunications Conference, 1996. GLOBECOM '96. 'Communications: The Key to Global Prosperity , Volume: 1 , 1996
  Page(s): 659 -664 vol.1
• Application for parallel disks for efficient handling of object-oriented
  databases. Chehadeh, Y.C.; Hurson, A.R.; Miller, L.L.; Pakzad, S.; Jamoussi, B.N.
• Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1993. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE
  Symposium on , 1993 Page(s): 184 -191

Proven active Board participation on other Boards

• Member of Scientific Committee of MPLS World
  http://www.upperside.fr/congress02/mplswscientific.htm
• Member of Scientific Committee of MPLS 2002
  http://www.mpls2002.com
• Member of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the ISOCRe
  Interoperability Lab.

Ability to increase broad representation in ISOC membership.
Prior to joining Nortel Networks, Bilel held several teaching positions at Pennsylvania State University. He was an instructor of a graduate level computer engineering course, a teaching assistant for several computer engineering/science and electrical engineering graduate/undergraduate courses, and also served as a research assistant.

Since joining Nortel Networks, Bilel has continued to educate colleagues and peers through organization of tutorials and workshops on emerging protocols (e.g., MPLS) and technology topics (e.g., Traffic Management and QoS) both internal to Nortel and in prestigious industry conferences and events. Some examples in this area include:

NANOG Tutorial: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-9901/agenda.html
N+I Workshop Instructor:
http://www.key3media.com/interop/lv2002/education/tutorials_topic.php