Kilnam Chon

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Kilnam Chon is a Professor Emeritus at Keio University. He also teaches at KAIST.

Education

Chon holds a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and a B.Sc. in Engineering Science from Osaka University.

Career History

He started working as a System Engineer at Rockwell in the late sixties. From 1976 to 1980, he worked in the Technical Team of Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He then joined ETRI(formerly KIET) as a Principal Investigator.

Since 1982, Chon has been teaching at KAIST. In 2008, he taught at the Tsinghua University in Beijing as a Visiting Professor.

Membership

Since the early '80s, he has been working with network systems and the Internet. He has actively participated in groups like APNG, APAN and APTLD. Currently, he Co-chairs the Coordination Committee of Intercontinental Research Networking. He is the developer of the first Internet in Asia, which was called SDN.

• Chair of Internet Association of Korea, (2000 – Present)
• Chair of Korea Networking Council, (1985-1995)
• Chair of Asia Pacific Networking Group, (1992-1995)
• Conference Organization Chair of KRNET
• Chair of Asia-Pacific Coordinating Committee on Intercontinental Research Networking
• Technical Advisory Group Member of Interop
• Chair of Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Name Forum, (1999–Present)
• Chair of Asia Pacific Advanced Network, (1997–Present)
• Co-chair of Coordinating Committee on Intercontinental Research Networking

In 2000, he founded Networking, Inc.

Publications

Chon is the Author or the co-author of the following Publications:

• The origin and early development of the Internet and of the netizen
• ISPSG: Internet Service Provider-Separated Geographic-Based Addressing and Routing
• Adjusting the Aggregate Throughput of Parallel TCP Flows without Central Coordination
• G-tcp to govern aggregate throughput of parallel TCP flows
• Network-aware Overlay Multicast for Large Data Dissemination
• Future Internet and The Other Billions - Research Opportunity
• Past, Present & Future of Research in the Information Society
• A Brief History of the Internet in Korea
• The Future of the Internet Digital Divide
• NLM : network-based layered multicast for traffic control of heterogeneous network
• Proactive web caching with cnmulative prefetching for large multimedia data
• Scalable Traffic Control Scheme for Interactive Multimedia Sessions
• Testing Methods for SDL Systems
• Hierarchical Session Management for Large Scale Sessions

A Complete List of Chon's Publications can be read here