James (Jim) Breen, Associate Professor

MBA, University of Melbourne, 1980

BSc, University of Melbourne, 1970

Expertise and research interests

Research interests and activities are concentrated on networking; in particular protocol design, protocol performance, network design, and routing methodologies. Approximately 20 conference papers and technical reports have been written in these areas.

Background

Jim Breen received a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne in 1970. and completed the CPS Programmer in Training (precursor to the Graduate Diploma in Computing). In 1980 he received a Commonwealth Postgraduate Course Award to complete an MBA at the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Melbourne, in which he was awarded a degree with distinction. He has also completed an Arts degree major in Japanese at Swinburne Institute of Technology. From 1968 to 1975 Jim Breen was employed as a programmer and senior programmer in the PMG's Department and the Department of Defence (Signals Division) - primarily involved in developing operating systems and message switching communications software. From 1975 to 1982 he was a manager in the Systems Planning Branch of the Information Systems Department of Telecom Australia, with responsibility for planning the information processing infrastructure of the organisation. From 1983 to 1985 he was employed as a senior consultant with Coopers & Lybrand, specialising in telecommunications and computer technology, with assignments in Australia and overseas covering: network strategy studies, network and computer systems design, specification, selection and implementation, post-implementation reviews, market studies, and communications management. In 1985 he took up the position of Head, Department of Robotics and Digital Technology (Principal Lecturer), Chisholm Institute of Technology. This position continued into the merger with Monash University in 1990, with his tenured appointment converted to associate professor, and a fixed-term professorship until he stepped down as department head at the end of 1996. He is now coordinator of Digital Communications Programs for the Faculty of Information Technology. Associate Professor Breen's work at Chisholm and Monash has primarily focussed on the development and teaching of the Graduate Diploma and Masters courses in Digital Communications. He has designed most of the subjects, has developed course material for and taught many of the subjects, and supervises many of the projects within the courses.

Selected publications

J Cho and J W Breen, A flood routing method for networks, International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, Singapore, 9-12 September 1997, PP.1418 -1422.

M Hassan, H Sirisena and J W Breen, Design and analysis of a congestion control architecture using a proportional feedback controller, In Proceedings of Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, Melbourne, 3-6 December 1996, pp.607-612.

M Hassan and J W Breen, Performance issues for TCP/IP over ATM, in Proceedings of the 7th International Network Planning Symposium (Networks-961, Sydney, 24-29 November 1996.

M Hassan and J W Breen, A study of TCP performance over ATM with switched virtual circuits, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS), Singapore, 25-29 November 1996, pp.9.5.1-9.5.5.

M Hassan and J W Breen, An analysis of throughput loss for ATM connection setup delay In Proceedings of 19th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Melbourne 31 Jan1 Feb, 1996, pp.21-25.

M Hassan and J W Breen, Calculation of throughput loss due to ATM connection set-up time, In Proceedings of TASTED International Conference on Networks, Florida, 8-10 January,1996, pp.129 -132.

M Hassan, R Egudo and J W Breen, Analytic model for end-to-end packet-based higher layer protocols over cell-based networks, IEEE Singapore International Conference on Networks, (SICON), Singapore, July 3-7,1995, pp.162-166.

M Hassan, R Egudo and J W Breen, A closed queuing network model for retransmission based transport protocols over cell-switching networks, IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, (PACRIM), Victoria, Canada, May 17-19,1995, pp.86-89.

M Hassan and J W Breen, A study of TCP performance over ATM for varying packet size and cell loss ratio, Australian Telecommunications Networks and Applications (ATNAC), Melbourne, 5-7 December, 1994, pp.555-558.

J Cho and J W Breen, Analysis of the performance of dynamic multicast algorithms, Computer Communications Vol. 22, no 7, May 1999, Elseviev Science, Amsterdam.

 

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