Farouk Kamoun
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Farouk Kamoun | |
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| Born | October 20, 1946 (age 79) |
| Citizenship | Tunisian |
| Known for | Hierarchical routing optimal number |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | ENSI |
| Doctoral advisor | Leonard Kleinrock |
Farouk Kamoun (born October 20, 1946) is a Tunisian computer scientist and professor of computer science at the National School of Computer Sciences (ENSI) of Manouba University, Tunisia. He contributed in the late 1970s to significant research in the field of computer networking in relation with the first ARPANET network. He is also one of the pioneers of the development of the Internet in Tunisia in the early 1990s.
The contribution of Dr. Kamoun in the domain of hierarchical routing begun in 1979 with his professor at the University of California UCLA, Leonard Kleinrock. They argued that the optimal number of levels for an router subnet is , requiring a total of entries per router. They also showed that the increase in effective mean path length caused by hierarchical routing is sufficiently small that it is usually acceptable.
The research work conducted in Tunisia in the 1980s on network flow control based on buffer management is considered as the basis of the now selective reject algorithms used in the Internet.
