User:Howard C. Berkowitz/Publications

Unfortunately, in some of my consulting assignments, the work is not generally available, although I can provide references to people with a need to know. * denotes coauthor


 * Regular contributor, Marine Electronics Journal
 * Patent applied for*: “Healthcare Communication System and Method featuring Rules Engine Database, Tracking and Escalation”.
 * Patent applied for*: “Fault-Tolerant Client Communications System and Method”.
 * "Avoiding Single Points of Failure," NANOG, October 2006. Subject changed, in the meeting, to disaster communications and the role of service providers in major disasters.
 * Contributor to Computerworld's networking section.
 * RFC 4098, "Terminology for Benchmarking BGP Device Convergence in the Control Plane." Benchmarking Methodology Working Group, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)*, June 2005.
 * Multiple tutorials at www.certificationzone.com
 * "Routing Architecture Building Blocks: an Informational Taxonomy", draft-eriksson-rabbit-00.txt, IETF work in progress, November 2002.*
 * Building Service Provider Networks, John Wiley & Sons, June 2002.
 * "Future Domain Requirements," work in progress, IRTF*
 * "An Experimental Methodology for Analysis of Growth in the Global Routing Table," work in progress IETF*
 * “To be Multihomed: Requirements and Definitions,” work in progress, IETF*
 * "Exterior Routing 201" and “Customer Satisfaction 201,” NANOG Winter 2001 meeting.
 * WAN Survival Guide, John Wiley & Sons, November 2000
 * "OSPF Goodies for ISPs," NANOG Fall 1999 meeting.
 * "New Ways in WANs: VPNs and Multihoming," tutorial at Networld/Interop Europe, September 1999
 * Designing Routing & Switching Architectures for Enterprise Networks, Macmillan Technical Publishing, August 1999. Also available in Chinese edition.
 * Internet Draft draft-berkowitz-vpn-tax-01.txt, “Requirements Taxonomy for Virtual Private Networks,” Internet Engineering Task Force, June 1999.
 * "So Your Customer wants a VPN," presentation at NANOG meeting, May 1999.
 * "Routing in the Internet and Internet Connectivity Alternatives" tutorial, Networld/Interop Europe (Paris), November 1998.
 * Designing Addressing Architectures for Routing and Switching, Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1998
 * "Interesting Things You Can Do With OSPF," North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG), tutorial at June 1998 meeting.
 * "Multihoming: Problems and Solutions from the Customer Point of Views" presentation, NANOG February 1998
 * Internet Draft draft-berkowitz-ospfdeploy-00.txt, “OSPF Network Deployment Techniques,” Internet Engineering Task Force, March 1998.
 * Series of articles in CiscoWorld, a PCI newspaper, beginning in June 1995, on topics  including Internet naming and addressing, Novell network optimization, advanced IP  routing, Internet standardization, firewalls, and internetwork design.
 * RFC 2072, "Router Renumbering Guide," PIER Working Group,  Internet  Engineering Task Force, January 1997.
 * "Case Studies in Renumbering," presentation at Networld/Interop, September 1996.
 * RFC 2071, "Network Renumbering Overview:   Why would I want it  and what is it anyway?"  PIER Working Group, Internet Engineering Task Force, January  1997.
 * RFC 1916, "Enterprise Renumbering: Experience and Information Solicitation," Internet Engineering Task Force, February 1996.
 * “Open System Transition Strategies,” "Standard Testing for Network Protocols," "Open  Network Addressing", and "X.25 Switching and Open Network Architecture," Data  Communications Management, 1993.
 * "LAN Computing: How Many Tiers?" and "System Software Trends for LAN  Computing," 1993  Auerbach LAN Handbook
 * “Demystifying Performance,” Data Communications Management, May 1992.
 * Tutorial program chair and speaker on “Business Case for Open Systems,” “Open Networking” and “Portability with Open Systems,” Federal Open Systems  Exposition/Federal Open Systems & Networks, March 1992.
 * Program committee member and speaker on “Executive Introduction to Open Systems,” “GOSIP over ISDN,” and “LAN Operating Systems and Open System Initiatives,” User’s  Open Systems Conference, November 1991.
 * “LAN Vendors move to Open Systems,” Federal Computer Conference, September 1991.
 * “Implementing Network Measurement with National Performance Standards,” Data Communications Management, July 1991.
 * Keynote speaker on "Standards for Global Connectivity,", Association of Banyan Users International, April 1990.
 * "Standards-Based Interoperability," IEEE Communications Society, New York Chapter, April 1990.
 * "International Standards Update" "Update on Protocol Testing," COMNET 1990.
 * "Open Systems Interconnection and Government OSI Profile," Armed Forces Communications-Electronics Association (AFCEA Conference), January 1990.
 * "Will the Real X.25 Please Stand Up Even If It's ISDN" and "OSI/ISDN for Managers",  COS OSI Interoperability Symposium, November 1989.
 * "Distributed Computing: the Open Systems Interconnection View," Chapter 16 of  Operating Systems: An Introduction by Harvey Deitel, Second Edition, 1989.  Addison- Wesley.
 * "OSI/MAP Conformance Testing," IEEE  WESCON/88, Anaheim, CA, November 1988.
 * "Enhanced Static Conformance Analysis," International Workshop on Protocol Test  Systems,  Vancouver, B.C., Canada, October 1988.
 * "OSI: Whom do you Trust?," IEEE MILCOM '87 Proceedings,  pg. 19.11;  session  chair   and  panelist on "Network Protocols:  the Reality."
 * Multiple articles on network management, X.25, LAN's, SNA, etc., as  well  as  product  focus articles for security and LAN's, Government Computer News
 * "NI, AI, and the Network  Operations  Assistant,"  CMG  '86 Proceedings, Computer  Measurement Group (CMG)
 * "Response Time Components in SNA Polled Networks," CMG  '86 Proceedings,  Computer  Measurement Group.
 * Guest editor, special issue  on  network  measurement,  and author  of "Control  Unit   Availability:   Measurement  and Analysis," CMG Transactions, Spring 1986.
 * American   National    Standard    X3.141-1986, "Measurement  Methods  for  User-Oriented Performance Evaluation." [Adopted as Federal Standard 1043]*
 * "Implementing Network Measurement with National Performance Standards," National  Capital Area CMG, 1985.
 * "Response Time Components in Distributed Networks," CMG '85 Proceedings,  Computer  Measurement Group.
 * "Comparing Polled and Packet-Switched Performance using ANSI Standard Techniques," CMG '85 Proceedings, Computer Measurement Group.
 * Coauthor, Draft American  Standard  T1Q1.3/84-001,  "Packet Switched Performance  Parameters."
 * "Information Management for Network Control" and "Case  Studies  in  Local Networks,"  COMNET 1980.
 * Coauthor, Interim Federal Standard 1033,  "Data  Communications Performance  Parameters," 1979.   *"Practical User Control of Large Networks,"  invited  paper, NTC   '77   Proceedings,   IEEE  National  Telecommunications Conference.
 * "Introduction to  Network  Control"  and "Integrating   and  Controlling  Network  Control   Centers," INTERFACE '77.
 * "Reliability Aspects of Distributed Processing," INTERFACE '76, Miami Beach, FL.
 * "Introduction to Network Control," COMTEN User Exchange national meeting, Atlanta, GA, 1975.
 * "Teaching Structured Programming to Beginning Programmers," 1975 ACM Computer Science  Conference.