Kazutaka Murakami

Bell Laboratories
Networking Techniques Research Department
101 Crawfords Corner Road
Holmdel, New Jersey 07733-3030
Room 4G512

kmurakami@bell-labs.com

Research Interests

Integrated user/terminal mobility management for wireless/wired voice/WiFi/IMS/IP networks.
Service programming interface for 3rd generation multi-media wireless networks.
Distributed system management for telecommunication systems. Object management to improve throughput and to attain low latency and high availability.
Call processing and intelligent network service architecture for wireless and wired networks.
Network restoration for survivable high-speed networks. Optimal network resource allocation and virtual path/call routing to maximize the survivability level of a network.

Publications

Mobility Management Alternatives for Migration to Mobile Internet Session-Based Services, K.Murakami, O.Haase, J.S.Shin, and T.F.LaPorta, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol.22, no.5, pp.818-833, June 2004.
Multi-Protocol Profiles to Support User Mobility Across Network Technologies, O.Haase, M.Xiong, and K.Murakami, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM ’04), January 2004.
Unified Mobility Manager - Enabling Efficient SIP/UMTS Mobile Network Control, O.Haase, K.Murakami, and T.F.LaPorta, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Vol.10, No.4, pp.66-75, August 2003.
Global Roaming and Personal Mobility with COPS Architecture in SuperHLR, R.Isukapalli, T.Alexiou, and K.Murakami, Bell Labs Technical Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 3-18, November 2002.
Interworking Internet Telephony and Wireless Telecommunications Networks, J.Lennox, K.Murakami, M.Karaul, and T.LaPorta, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, Volume 31, Number 5, October 2001 – also in The 2nd IP-Telephony Workshop, April 2001.
RIMA: Router for Integrated Mobile Access, T.LaPorta, K.Murakami, and R.Ramjee, IEEE PIMRC 2000, Sep. 2000.
Design, Implementation, and Performance of a Cluster Mobile Switching Center, Ramachandran Ramjee, Kazutaka Murakami, Richard W. Buskens, Yow-Jian Lin, and Thomas F. LaPorta, Wireless Multimedia Network Technologies, R. Ganesh, K. Pahlavan, Z.Zvonar, editors, pp.153-171, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
Design, Implementation, and Analysis of a Highly Available Distributed Call Processing System, Kazutaka Murakami, Richard W. Buskens, Ramachandran Ramjee, Yow-Jian Lin, and Thomas F. LaPorta, IEEE FTCS '98, Munich Germany, Jun. 1998.
Optimal Capacity and Flow Assignment for Self-Healing ATM Network Based on Line and End-to-End Restoration, Kazutaka Murakami and Hyong S. Kim, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, vol.6, no.2, pp.207-221, Apr. 1998.
Cluster Mobile Switching Center for Third Generation Wireless Systems, Thomas F. LaPorta, Ramachandran Ramjee, Kazutaka Murakami, Richard W. Buskens, and Yow-Jian Lin, IEEE PIMRC '98, Boston MA, Sep. 1998.
Comparative Study on Restoration Schemes of Survivable ATM Networks, Kazutaka Murakami and Hyong S. Kim, IEEE INFOCOM '97, pp. 3C.1.1-8, Kobe Japan, Apr. 1997.
Virtual Path Routing for Survivable ATM Networks, Kazutaka Murakami and Hyong S. Kim, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, vol.4, no.1, pp.22-39, Feb. 1996.
Survivable Network Management for High-Speed ATM Networks, Kazutaka Murakami Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Sep. 1995.
Joint Optimization of Capacity and Flow Assignment for Self-Healing ATM Networks, Kazutaka Murakami and Hyong S. Kim, IEEE ICC '95, pp.6.8.1.-6.8.5, Seattle WA, Jun. 1995.
Near-Optimal Virtual Path Routing for Survivable ATM Networks, Kazutaka Murakami and Hyong S. Kim, IEEE INFOCOM '94, pp.208-215, Toronto Canada, Jun. 1994.
A Remote Multimedia Presentation System Using Shared Windows and Motion Video, A.Nakajima, F.Ando, T.H.Fin, K.Murakami, M.Shinozaki and T.Kurosawa, IPSJ Journal, vol.34, no.6, pp.1371-1384, Jun. 1993. (in Japanese)
Local Digital Telephone System on Two-way Cable Television, Tadao Saito, Kazutaka Murakami and Hiroshi Inose, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems," vol.12, no.1, Aug. 1986.

Education

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1995. "Survivable Network Management for ATM Networks" (Advisor: H.S.Kim)
M.Eng., University of Tokyo, Electronic Engineering, 1984. "Voice and Data Communication System on CARV Networks" (Advisor: H.Inose)
B.Eng., University of Tokyo, Electronic Engineering, 1982. "Man-machine System for Producing Structured Abstract" (Advisor: H.Inose)

Work History and Professional Activity

Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies, 1996-present
Bell Labs Research, AT&T, 1996
IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, 1984-1991
Feature Editor (Japanese and other Asian Literature) of IEEE Communications Magazine, 1986-1991
Program committee member of IEEE ICON '99
Advisory and publicity committee member of IEEE ISORC '99

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