A Tutorial on Queuing and Trunking with Applications to Communications / Synthesis Lectures on Communications (PDF)

Governors.Professor Tranter also served on the IEEE Awards Board and as chair of the Alexander Graham Bell Award Committee. In 2001 Professor Tranter was elected Vice-President, Technical Activities of the IEEE Communications Society. Professor Tranter received an IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984, a Millennium Medal in 2000, the Donald McLellan Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 2000, and the Publications Exemplary Service Award in 2001. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1985. Most recently, Professor Tranter served a three-year term at the National Science Foundation as Program Director for the areas of communications, networking, information theory, and coding.
Allen B. Mackenzie is an Associate Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Vanderbilt University in 1999. In 2003 he earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Cornell University and joined the faculty of the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he is now an associate professor. During the 2012-2013 academic year, he is an E.T.S. Walton Visiting Professor at Trinity College Dublin. Prof. MacKenzie's research focuses on wireless communications systems and networks. Hiscurrent research interests include cognitive radio and cognitive network algorithms, architectures, and protocols and the analysis of such systems and networks using game theory. His past and current research sponsors include the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Institute of Justice, and the U.S. Army. Prof. MacKenzie is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He also serves on the technical program committee of several international conferences in the areas of communications and networking, and is a regular reviewer for journals in these areas. Prof. MacKenzie is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ASEE and the ACM. In 2006, he received the Dean's Award for Outstanding New Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is the author of more than 50 refereed conference and journal papers and the co-author of the book Game Theory for Wireless Engineers.