A scientist, educator, and technologist with over 30 years of experience, Dr. Lavian is an expert in telecommunications, network communications, mobile wireless, and Internet Protocols (TCP/IP). He offers expert witness services and provides courtroom presence, clear and compelling testimony, and an ability to effectively distill complex concepts into understandable, commonsense basics.
Dr. Lavian holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Computer Science, specializing in network communications.
For 20 years, Dr. Lavian has researched, studied, and lectured at U.C. Berkeley, Engineering. He has focused on network services, telecommunications systems, data networks, software, network protocols, and communications infrastructure.
Dr. Lavian has acted as an industry fellow and lecturer at the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET) at U.C. Berkeley. While there, he conducted research projects in data centers (RAD Labs), telecommunication infrastructure (SAHARA), and wireless systems (ICEBERG). He also acted as the scientific liaison between Nortel Research Lab and U.C. Berkeley, providing tangible value in advanced technologies. Dr. Lavian was also part of U.C. Berkeley’s SkyDeck Start-ups, where he advanced technology research and implementation through various projects.
Dr. Lavian has co-authored over 25 scientific publications, journal articles, peer-reviewed papers, presented his results in scientific conferences. He is an inventor of over 120 issued and filed patents.
Network communications including Internet protocols; TCP/IP suite, TCP, UDP, IP, MAC Ethernet, 802.3, network protocols, network software applications, data link, network, and transport layers (L2, L3, L4), packet switching, data networks, computer networks, and network architectures.
Mobile wireless networks including Wi-Fi, 802.11, Bluetooth, MAC, PHY, Wireless LAN (WLAN), cellular systems, SMS, MMS, instant messaging (chat), mobile devices, and smartphones.
Internet cloud communications including Internet Technologies, Web applications, HTTP, e-mail, SMTP, POP, IMAP, Java, C/C++, file transfer FTP, client-server, cloud computing, and distributed computing.
Routing and switching systems, architectures, and protocols Including LAN, WAN, VPN, routing protocols, RIP, BGP, MPLS, OSPF, multicast, DNS, QoS, priority queuing, network infrastructure, and network communication architectures.
VoIP protocols, VoIP systems, streaming media, IP telephony, SIP, RTP, H.323, MGCP, video/audio conferencing, multimedia, and video/audio streaming.
Telecommunications and unified communications including PSTN, circuit switching, SS7, SONET, TDM, telecom architecture, network infrastructure, network design, switch architectures, network redundancy, and resiliency.
Dr. Lavian provides expert witness services in network communications systems, architectures, products and protocols. He consults in the areas of Computer networks, network architectures, network protocols, communication systems, communication devices, packet switching, networked systems, Internet technologies, distributed systems, and data center network architecture.
Dr. Lavian provides expert witness network communications services in network communications including data communications, computer networks, network architecture and packet switching. He is an Internet protocols expert including TCP/IP suite, TCP, UDP, IP, MAC Ethernet, 802.3, network protocols, network software applications, data link, network, and transport layers (L2, L3, L4).
