100
edits
Changes
no edit summary
== Biography ==
== Biography ==
'''Dr. Etuate Cocker''' was a PhD student at the [[University of Auckland]].<ref name="icannwiki">ICANNWiki - ICANN 49 Intake Form, March 2014</ref> where he was working on solution for improving throughput on high latency satellite connection. He authored and co-authored the following papers as part of his dissertation.
'''Dr. ‘Etuate Cocker''' is originally from '''Tonga''' and was awarded the '''first PhD in Computer Science for the Kingdom of Tonga'''. While doing extensive research in the Pacific, he was awarded two grants (ISIF and Internet NZ grants) and have attended a number of International and regional conferences. The results from his doctoral research have contributed to the development of Internet connectivity in the Pacific region. He has contributed to policy discussions in a number of ICANN meetings and he is passionate about improving connectivity for remote islands in the Pacific. His professional experience includes positions as an Instructor in many Cisco academies, Network Engineer, Technical Specialist, Researcher, and now a Team Leader for a team of Network Engineers at the largest Internet Service Provider in New Zealand - Spark NZ Ltd. Etuate has authored/co-authored the following papers as part of his dissertation.
* E. Cocker, U. Speidel, N. Rebenich, S. Neville, A. Gulliver, R. Eimann, K. Nisar, S. Hassan, Z. Azziz, M. Dong, and V. Wong, “Measurement of packet train arrival conditions in high latency networks,” in 9<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, Tainan, Tainwan, 10-13 December, p. P0190, 2013.
* E. Cocker, U. Speidel, N. Rebenich, S. Neville, A. Gulliver, R. Eimann, K. Nisar, S. Hassan, Z. Azziz, M. Dong, and V. Wong, “Measurement of packet train arrival conditions in high latency networks,” in 9<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, Tainan, Tainwan, 10-13 December, p. P0190, 2013.
* E. Cocker, F. Ghazzi, U. Speidel, “Measurement of buffer requirement trends for real time traffic over TCP,” in 15<sup>th</sup> International Conference on high performance switching and routing, Vancouver, Canada, 1-4 July.
* E. Cocker, F. Ghazzi, U. Speidel, “Measurement of buffer requirement trends for real time traffic over TCP,” in 15<sup>th</sup> International Conference on high performance switching and routing, Vancouver, Canada, 1-4 July.