Affiliation |
Professor emeritus at Nagoya University |
satodmkwiakalnuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp |
Photonic network technologies, network design issues, traffic engineering, network control and operations, network performance evaluation, and intra-/inter- datacenter networks
Ken-ichi Sato received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from the University of Tokyo, in 1976, 1978, and 1986, respectively. He is a Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, an NTT R&D Fellow, and currently with Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Before joining the Nagoya University in April 2004, he was an Executive Manager of the Photonic Transport Network Laboratory at NTT. He has been a leading researcher in the field of telecommunications; his most significant achievements lie in two of the important transport network technology developments. One is ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) network technology, which includes the invention of the Virtual Path concept. The other is photonic network technology, which includes the invention of the optical path concept and various networking and system technologies. His R&D activities cover transport network architectures, network design, photonic network systems including optical cross-connect/ADM and photonic IP routers, and optical transmission technologies. He has authored/co-authored more than 550 research publications in international journals and conferences. He holds 50 granted patents and more than 100 pending patents. His contributions to asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and optical network technology development extend to coediting the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (four special issues) and the Journal of Lightwave Technology (three special issues); organizing several workshops and conference technical sessions; serving on numerous committees of international conferences including OFC 2016 General Chair and OFC 2014 Program Chair; authoring a book, Advances in Transport Network Technologies (Artech House, 1996); and coauthoring 17 other books. Prof. Sato is a honorary fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan and a Fellow of the IEEE. He served as the president of the IEICE during 2016-2017. He received the Young Engineer Award in 1984, the Excellent Paper Award in 1991 and 2020, the Achievement Award in 2000, and the Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award in 2011 from the IEICE of Japan, and the Best Paper Awards in 2007 and 2008 from the IEICE Communications Society. He was also the recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture in 2002, and the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon from Japan’s Cabinet Office in 2014.
1978-1985 NTT; Research Engineer in Optical Communications Laboratories
Responsible for the R&D of optical fiber transmission technologies for CATV distribution systems and analog video transmission systems, using baseband and sub-carrier modulation of laser diodes.
1985-1992 NTT; Supervisor in Transport Processing Laboratory
1985-1992 NTT; Supervisor in Transport Processing Laboratory Research leader in Transport Processing Laboratory working on a B-ISDN based on ATM technologies. Responsible for R&D on ATM networking technologies including transport network architecture development, network resource management (ATM network performance analysis, ATM traffic control and ATM network QOS(Quality of Service) design, OA&M, network restoration (self-healing), ATM cross-connect systems, and standardization.
1992-1999 NTT; Group Leader in Optical Network Systems Laboratories
Leader of Photonic Transport Network Systems Group working on photonic transport network architectures, network design, OA&M (operation administration and maintenance) systems, and photonic network hardware systems including optical cross-connect systems, optical Add/Drop multiplexers, dense WDM transmission systems and the related optical technologies.
1999-2004 NTT; Executive Director, Photonic Transport Network Laboratory
Responsible for the R&D of photonic transport networks including multi-protocol/layer network design, GMPLS (Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching) technologies and the photonic MPLS router, and cutting-edge photonic technologies such as supercontinuum optical sources and photonic crystal fibers. Also co-directing with business units the introduction of optical cross-connect systems and reconfigurable optical Add/Drop multiplexers.
2004-2020 Nagoya University; Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Graduate School of Engineering
His research interests include photonic network technologies, network design issues, tra?c engineering, network control and operations, network performance evaluation, and intra-/inter- datacenter networks.
2020-Present Emeritus Professor at Nagoya University, Invited Senior Researcher at Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
His research interests include photonic network technologies, network design issues, tra?c engineering, network control and operations, network performance evaluation, and intra-/inter- datacenter networks.