Biography:
Bruce Northcote's studies were undertaken at the University of Adelaide. He graduated with an honours degree in Applied Mathematics in 1990 and was awarded his PhD in 1995. Bruce has worked primarily in the telecommunications industry, as a system architect and performance analyst.

Dr. Bruce Northcote
Senior Research Fellow

Telephone: +61 8 8303 6014
E-mail: bruce.northcote@adelaide.edu.au

Bruce Northcote was a PhD student and then a Research Fellow at the The University of Adelaide from 1991 until 1994. He rejoined the university in October 2003 as a Senior Research Fellow.

From 1994 until 1996 he worked at Bellcore (NJ, USA) as a member of the Network Services Performance and Control Group, specialising in the performance analysis of telecommunications systems. Specifically, he was their lead consultant in Signalling System Number 7 and Advanced Intelligent Network congestion control research and Personal Communications Services performance analysis. In 1996 he joined Ascom Nexion to develop for them a coordinated performance benchmark test plan for multi-service switching platforms (Asynchronous Transfer Mode, Frame Relay and Internetworking). After acquisition and promotion he became a Consulting Engineer in Fujitsu Nexion, in the Product Technologies and Standards department, working on broadband technology assessment, product definition and standardization activities for the Fujitsu broadband product range, actively participating in various standards forums (IETF, ATMF, ANSI T1S1 & ITU-T SG13).

Since leaving the USA in December 1999, to return to Australia, he has undertaken a number of consulting projects for his own companies, BSN Consulting Pty Ltd and Telic Australia Pty Ltd. His consulting activities have included projects for Vodafone Australia, Telstra, Telcordia (USA), Viridien (USA), and the Victorian Department of Justice.

Bruce now leads 3G network analysis projects for Telstra and the development of simulation tools for analysing network quality of Service for Tenix.

He has published over 20 refereed journal and conference papers, written numerous technical contributions for a variety of international standards bodies, is a senior member of IEEE and was an acreditted ATM Forum Ambassador for several years.