OLIVER C. IBE, ScD, is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. He has sixteen years of experience in the telecommunication industry including stints as Chief Technology Officer and cofounder of Sineria Networks, and the Director of Network Architecture at both Spike Broadband Systems and Adaptive Broadband Corporation. Dr. Ibe has published numerous books on the subjects of telecommunication technologies and applied probability.