Biography

Dr. Saravut Yaipairoj was born in Bangkok, Thailand . He earned his bachelor degree in Telecommunication Engineering from King Mongkut Institute of Technology, Thailand and joined Advanced Info Service (AIS) PLC., a well-known mobile operator in Thailand, as a network transmission engineer. In 1997. He came to the United States and earned two master degrees in Computer Networking and Communication Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology. After that, he joined Lucent Technologies as a network engineer. He involved in several proposals such as Wireless Transport network, Voice over DSL, DWDM. In 2007, he earned a doctoral degree in Telecommunication Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. His area of research includes network performance analysis and pricing in telecommunication networks. Currently he is working at Total Access Communications PLC (DTAC) in Bangkok, Thailand as a product manager for International Direct Dialling (IDD) services.

Education

• Ph.D. Telecommunications Management, Stevens Institue of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey
  • Thesis title: Enhancing Performance of Mobile Services Through Pricing Mechanisms
• M.S.CoE. Computer Networking, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
• M.S.E.E. Communication Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
• B.Eng. Telecommunication Engineering, King Mongkut Institute of Technology, Thailand

Committee Members

• Prof. Fotios Harmantzis (Thesis Advisor)
• Prof. Audrey Curtis (Program Director)
• Prof. Rajarathnam Chandramouli
• Prof. Penina Orenstein

Current Research

• Network Performance Analysis
• Pricing of Telecommunication Networks
• Wi-Fi integration with 2.5G and 3G Network

Publications

Referred Journal Articles

• S. Yaipairoj, F. Harmantzis, and V. Gunasekaran, "Economics of GPRS Networks with Wi-Fi Integration", European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR).
• S. Yaipairoj, F. Harmantzis, " An Auction-based Pricing Model for Performance and Revenue Optimization in Mobile Data Services", Journal of Price and Revenue Management, (2006), Vol.5, pp.32-44.

Conference Proceedings

• S. Yaipairoj, F. Harmantzis, "Optimizing Usability and Complexity of Pricing Mechanisms for Wireless Services" , International Telecommunications Society 16th Biennial Conference, Beijing, China, June 12-16, 2006.
• S. Yaipairoj, F. Harmantzis, " Auction-based Congestion Pricing for Wireless Data Services", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), Istanbul, Turkey, June 11-15, 2006.
• S. Yaipairoj, F. Harmantzis and V. Gunasekaran, "A Pricing Model of GPRS Networks with Wi-Fi Integration for "Heavy" Data Users" , Proc. 2nd International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks (ICETE 2005)), Reading, UK, October 3-7, 2005.
• S.Yaipairoj, and F. Harmantzis, "Enhanced Data Services in GPRS Networks via Auction-based Prices for Admission", Proc. IEEE/IFIP Networking 2005, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. May 2005. 
• S.Yaipairoj and F.Harmantzis, "Dynamic Pricing with alternatives for data services in mobile networks", Proc. IASTED International Conference on Networks and Communication Systems (NCS2005), Krabi, Thailand, April 2005.
• S. Yaipairoj and F. Harmantzis, “ A Dynamic Pricing Model for Data Services in GPRS Networks ”. Proc. IEEE Workshop on Adaptive Wireless Networks (AWiN 2004) (in conjunction with GLOBECOM 2004) , Dallas , Texas, Dec. 2004.
• S.Yaipairoj and F.Harmantzis, "Priority Telephony System with Pricing Alternatives" , Proc. 11th International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking ( ICT 2004), Vol. 3124, pp. 183-191, August 2004.
• S.Yaipairoj and F.Harmantzis, " Dynamic Pricing with alternatives for Mobile Networks" , Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications Networking Conference (WCNC 2004), Atlanta, Georgia, March 2004.
• S.Yaipairoj, " Performance Analysis of GSM/GPRS System with Channel Impairment" , Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications Networking Conference (WCNC 2004), Atlanta, Georgia, March 2004.

Invited Talks

• S.Yaipairoj, F. Harmantzis, and V. Gunasekaran, "A Pricing Model for GPRS Network with Wi-Fi Integration", in the 20 th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XX), Rhodes, Greece, July 4-7,2004 AND the 4th New York Metro Area Networking Workshop (NYMAN 2004), The Graduate Center, CUNY, NewYork, September 2004.
• S.Yaipairoj and F.Harmantzis, “Auction-based Pricing in GPRS Networks for Enchanced Data Services”, Telecom INFORMS 2004, Florida, March 2004.

Professional Services

• 2006 Serving as an ad-hoc reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Networking
• 2005 Serving as an ad-hoc reviewer for ITS 16th Regional European Conference
• 2004 Serving as an ad-hoc reviewer for IEEE Workshop on Adaptive Wireless Networks

Teaching Assistant

• TM770 : Economics of Networks
• TM605 : Probability and Stochastic Processes for Telecommunications

Industry Background

• Total Access Communications PLC (DTAC), Bangkok, Thailand from 2007 to present. Dr. Yaipairoj is responsible for International services related to International Direct Dialing (IDD) on both retail and wholesale services. On the wholesale side, he supervises the routing of IDD gateway as well as works with carrier partners such as Telenor, Hutchison Global Communications, Verizon business for interconnection to Thailand. On the retail side, he is responsible for all of IDD products and their pricing. He involves in creating marketing and pricing strategy for DTAC in order to provide high qualiy IDD services to its subscribers.
• Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, New Jersey from 2000 to 2001. Dr. Yaipairoj was responsible for DWDM optical network design and conducted cost study on the network architecture and Lucent DWDM products for both customers and Lucent Proprietary use. He also Involved in several projects such as DWDM Transport network, SONET network, Voice over DSL, and Wireless transport network .
• Advanced Info Services PLC., Bangkok, Thailand from 1996 to 1997. Dr. Yaipairoj was responsible for the maintenance of optical transmission links for mobile transport networks in metropolitan area (Bangkok and vicinity). He also actively involved in the microwave and optical transmission planning in both urban and rural areas as well as the feasibility studies of the transport networks.

Memberships

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)