Eric Bauer
Research Interests
Biography
Eric Bauer is a Bell Labs Fellow in the Technology, Strategy & Architecture group of Nokia Bell Labs.Nokia's Applications and Analytics business group where he focuses on efficiency, reliability, availability and qualityof cloud-based services. Mr. Bauer has authored five books on cloud computing and two ETSI NFV specifications. Before focusing on cloud, he worked on reliability of software, systems, and network-based solutions and wrote three general reliability engineering books. Earlier in his career, Mr. Bauer spent two decades designing and developing embedded firmware, networked operating systems, IP PBXs, internet platforms, and optical transmission systems. He has been awarded twenty-four US patents.
Education
MS in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University
BS in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University
Selected articles and publications
Cloud Automation and Economic Efficiency, IEEE Cloud Computing, 2018 March/April issue
Improving Operational Efficiency of Applications via Cloud Computing, IEEE Cloud Computing, 2018 January/February issue
Cloud standards:
- ETSI NFV Service Quality Metrics GS NFV-INF-010, December 2014
- ETSI NFV Quality Accountability Framework GS NFV-REL-005, January 2016
- Quality Measurement of Automated Lifecycle Management Actions, QuEST Forum, August 2015
- NFV Workload Efficiency Whitepaper, QuEST Forum, 2016.
Books
Economic Efficiency of Cloud-Based Application Services (ResearchGate, November 2017)
Risk Thinking for Cloud-Based Application Services (CRC Press, February 2017)
Lean Computing for the Cloud (Wiley-IEEE Press, April 2016)
Service Quality of Cloud-Based Applications (Wiley-IEEE Press, December 2013)
Reliability and Availability of Cloud Computing (Wiley-IEEE Press, August 2012)
Beyond Redundancy: How Geographic Redundancy Can Improve Service Availability and Reliability of Computer-Based Systems (Wiley-IEEE Press, November 2011)
Design for Reliability: Information and Computer-Based Systems (Wiley-IEEE Press, October 2010)
Practical System Reliability (Wiley-IEEE Press, March 2009)
Patents
US Patent 4,899,377 Communication terminal telephone directory with dynamic directory tabbing
US Patent 5,388,257 Method and apparatus for operating a computer based file system
US Patent 5,412,808 System for parsing extended file names in an operating system
US Patent 5,550,981 Dynamic binding of network identities to locally-meaningful identities in computer networks
US Patent 5,627,996 Method and apparatus for accessing the same computer file using different file name formats
US Patent 5,745,888 Advanced file server apparatus and method
US Patent 5,819,047 Method for controlling resource usage by network identities
US Patent 6,650,745 Method and apparatus for dynamically exchanging data among participants to a conference call
US Patent 6,711,129 Real-Time Admission Control
US Patent 6,735,193 Method and apparatus for suppression of packets during silence periods in a packet telephony system
US Patent 7,020,263 Method and apparatus for dynamically allocating bandwidth utilization in a packet telephony system
US Patent 7,180,863 Method and apparatus for overload control in multi-branch packet network
US Patent 7,688,757 Method and apparatus for assessing sourced elements
US Patent 7,873,505 Method and apparatus for predicting scheduled system downtime
US Patent 8,774,790 Method and apparatus for improving wireless network reliability
US Patent 8,826,074 Live module diagnostic testing
US Patent 8,856,585 Hardware failure mitigation
US Patent 8,949,655 Preventing extreme coresidency hazards in cloud computing
US Patent 8,977,886 Method and apparatus for rapid disaster recovery preparation in a cloud network
US Patent 9,075,660 Apparatus and method for providing service availability to a user via selection of data centers for the user
US Patent 9,104,487 Reducing response time variance of virtual processors
US Patent 9,130,967 Method and system for network element service recovery
US Patent 9,183,102 Hardware consumption architecture
US Patent 9,286,170 Preventing extreme coresidency hazards in cloud computing