About the Internet Society 

Board of Trustees

2004 Board Election

Petitioner - Organization member candidate: Olle Viktorsson

Please write your support of this candidate to:
2004-petition-viktorsson@isoc.org

Personal Statement

1. I will be able to devote an appropriate level of time to the activities associated with the position of Trustee. This has been assured as I was appointed to run the Ericsson IETF strategy work 2003. Appropriate changes of my line organisation has been performed lately.

2. Personal statement of what I believe I can contribute as a Trustee of the Internet Society. My primary interest is in getting IETF ways of working improve. That was also the topic of my presentation to the ISOC Advisory Council in Minneapolis. With the success of IP, IETF has encountered some problems e.g. due to overload. This is also recognized within IETF and I'm prepared to contribute to the improvement process and especially the role ISOC might take to help improve the situation.

A second interest I have is "ISOC in the world". Working on tasks regarding ISOC in relation to other organizations would be challenging. With my background in a global company I clearly see the benefits of working across borders, with different cultures and international organizations.

It is also my belief that my professional background is a strength. I manage a number of university collaborations and joint customer research projects also including negotiations and evaluation of outcome. Universities and customers are world wide, not only Europe but also in North America (both US and Canada), Asia (including Japan) and Australia. This has given me a valuable contact network. One of my main personal characteristics is perseverance, this has been very useful both in negotiations and to manage work load.

3. Short biography:
Olle Viktorsson has an MsC in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, from 1970. Since then the main working area has been within systems engineering within Ericsson. After a few years in design he shifted to more theoretical tasks in queuing theory, performance calculations and simulation of processor systems. Markov chain based reliability analysis of both duplicated and triplicated systems was also within the tasks. Already in the mid 80´s an investigation of the possibility to introduce packet switched voice in the telephone network was led by Mr. Viktorsson. It gave a lot of understanding of the differences between circuit switching and packet switching with real time requirements. However, the telecom industry decided to go for ATM instead and Mr. Viktorsson changed interest to SW reliability, both methodology to design reliable SW and different SW reliability prediction theories.

The next task was a large distributed telecom system with high reliability requirements and linear capacity growth when adding more processors. That has now evolved from proprietary to based on open source software. This has been done in the research organization headed by Mr. Viktorsson. The research lab in Montreal now actively contributes in OSDL (CGL) and have several contributions to Linux Journal and is also active in IETF WG FORCES.
Since 1996 the IP Networks research area within Ericsson Research is headed by Mr. Viktorsson. Well over 100 persons work in five research labs world wide with the main task to enhance the IP networking competence within Ericsson as well as contributing to the IP research community. A significant part of Ericsson´s IETF related work is performed within this organization. An important task is to show the feasibility of IP in mobile communication systems both internal and external. In year 2000 in Hong Kong the worlds first demo of IPv6 over live GPRS including hand over between GPRS and WLAN was shown. In 2002 the worlds first demo of IPv6 over WCDMA was performed based on the results from the European research project 6WINT. The initiative to Robust Header Compression (ROHC) in order to make real-time IP over expensive cellular access economical came from Ericsson Research which led to the IETF WG rohc.

Regards,
Olle Viktorsson
Director, IP Networks
Ericsson Research
Ericsson AB
Sweden