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Invited SPEAKER AT ACP 2009 CONFERENCE

July 1-3 , 2009

ACP 2009, the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, took place in Shanghai, China, November 2-6, 2009.

Invited presentation: "Dynamic Optical Networking via Overlay Control of Static Lightpaths" (pdf)

I also served as a judge for the best student paper award for Subcommittee 4: Network Architectures, Management and Applications.

On November 4, I visited Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a guest of Prof. Xinbing Wang. Invited presentation: "Architectural Support for Internet Evolution and Innovation" (pdf)

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT NGI 2009 CONFERENCE

July 1-3 , 2009

NGI 2009, the fifth conference on Next Generation Internet organized by the Network of Excellence Euro-NF, took place in Aveiro, Portugal, on July 1-3, 2009.

Keynote presentation: "Net SILOS: A Network Architecture for Advanced Cross-Layer Experimentation" (pdf)

 

Zyad Dwekat DEFENDS PHD DISSERTATION

June 2 , 2009

PhD student Zyad Dwekat has successfully defended his PHD dissertation, "Practical Fair Queueing Schedulers: Simplification Through Quantization." (pdf)

The contribution of Zyad's research is a suite of efficient and worst-case fair packet scheduling algorithms for routers.

Zyad is a Network Engineer with Sprint-Nextel.

 

BOOK ON Internet Tiered Services

April 13, 2009

Traffic Grooming Book

Internet Tiered Services: Theory, Economics, and Quality of Service, my new book published by Springer, is now available.

You may order from Amazon.

 

INVITED SPEAKER AT ONDM 2009 CONFERENCE

February 18-20, 2009

ONDM 2009, a major European conference focusing on optical networking, took place in Braunschweig, Germany, in February 2009.

Invited talk: "ERONs: Dynamic Optical Networking via Overlay Control of Static Lightpaths" (pdf)

 

CLARIS CASTILLO RECEIVES NCSU HONORS FOR PhD DISSERTATION

September25, 2008

Former PhD student Claris Castillo has received a College of Engineering 2008 Award for her dissertation, "On the Design of Efficient Resource Allocation Mechanisms for Grids." (pdf) (CSC news story)

Claris' dissertation was also selected as the NCSU nominee to the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) Dissertation award.

Since July 2008, Claris has been a Research Staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.

 

Distinguished Invited SPEAKER AT IEEE ICCCN CONFERENCE

August 4, 2008

The 17th IEEE ICCCN Conference (ICCCN 2008) took place in Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands, in August 2008.

Invited presentation: "Net SILOs: Generalizing the Layered Network Architecture" (pdf)

 

BOOK ON TRAFFIC GROOMING

July 30, 2008

Traffic Grooming Book

Traffic Grooming for Optical Networks: Foundations, Techniques and Frontiers, a new book co-edited by Rudra Dutta, Ahmed Kamal, and myself, published by Springer is now available.

You may order from Amazon.

 

SHRIKRISHNA KHARE DEFENDS MS THESIS

May 14 , 2008

MS student Shrikrishna Khare has successfully defended his MS thesis, titled "Testbed Implementation and Performance Evaluation of the Tiered Service Fair Queueing (TSFQ) Packet Scheduling Discipline." (pdf)

For his thesis, Shrikrishna developed a Linux kernel implementation of both the WF2Q service discipline and a new, scalable, discipline, Tiered Service Fair Queueing (TSFQ). This work was funded by the NSF NeTS program.

In June 2008, Shrikrishna will join Sun Microsystems in San Jose, California.

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT OON 2008 WORKSHOP

May 8 , 2008

The 5th Workshop on Optimization of Optical Networks (OON 2008) took place in Montreal, Canada, in May 2008.

Keynote presentation: "Hierarchical Traffic Grooming for Multi-Granular Optical Networks" (pdf)

 

CLARIS CASTILLO DEFENDS PHD DISSERTATION

April 28, 2008

PhD student Claris Castillo has successfully defended her PHD dissertation, "On the Design of Efficient Resource Allocation Mechanisms for Grids." (pdf)

The contribution of Claris' research is a suite of efficient scheduling algorithms for advance reservation and co-allocation of compute, storage, and network resources.

In July 2008, Claris will join the IBM T.J. Watson Center as a Research Staff member.

Claris was named a finalist for the Google 2007 Anita Borg Scholarship for Women in Computer Science. She also received a 2006 Outstanding Teaching Assistant award at NC State.

Claris was a co-op for Cisco Systems during the Fall 2007 semester, a research intern at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center during the summer of 2007, and a research intern for Intel in the summer of 2006.

 

DARPA PROJECT: EDGE-RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL NETWORKS

April 7, 2008

Edge-reconfigurable optical networks (ERONs) bridge the gap between the current practice of setting up expensive, dedicated, and static lightpath connections, and the need of high-end distributed applications for inexpensive access to dynamically switched end-to-end lightpaths. The objective of this project is to investigate the potential of ERON architectures to enable the sharing of expensive high bandwidth network resources among multiple users and applications that require occasional yet scheduled access to these resources. (CSC news story)

 

MANOJ VELLALA DEFENDS MS THESIS

March 19, 2008

MS student Manoj Vellala has successfully defended his MS thesis, titled "Stack Composition for SILO Architecture." (pdf)

For his thesis, Manoj developed an ontology of networking services as well as a suite of algorithms for composing these services into per-flow stacks called "silos." This work was funded by the NSF FIND program.

After the end of the semester, Manoj will join Cisco Systems in San Jose, California.

 

INVITED SPEAKER AT ONDM 2008 CONFERENCE

March 12-14, 2008

ONDM 2008, a major European conference focusing on optical networking, took place in Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain, in March 2008.

Invited talk: "Net SILOs: An Architecture to Enable Software Defined Optics" (pdf)

Panel discussion: "Is Multilayer Optical Networking Feasible?" (pdf)

 

IEEE BROADNETS 2007 CONFERENCE

September 10-13 , 2007

The IEEE Broadnets 2007 conference and the 2007 OBS workshop were held with great success in the RTP area from September 10-13, 2007.

We are looking forward to next year's event which will be held in London, UK.

 

2007 IBM FACULTY AWARD

August 17 , 2007

Michael Young and I have been selected to receive a 2007 IBM Faculty Award. IBM Faculty Awards recognize outstanding faculty achievement. IBM is a valued Super ePartner with the department. (CSC news story)

 

NSF CPATH-CB Project: COMPUTING ACROSS CURRICULA

July 12 , 2007

Our Computing Across Curricula project is funded by a grant from the NSF CPATH-CB program.

The primary focus of this project is to streamline pathways through which students receive an education that equips them with the computing tools necessary for them to serve as future computing leaders of society. Ultimately, the proposed activities are designed to make the computing education more relevant to the ever-changing needs of the computing workforce in the United States. (CSC news story)

For up-to-date information on events and activities please refer to the project website.

 

RUDRA DUTTA PROMOTED TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WITH TENURE

July 1 , 2007

Former PhD student and colleague Rudra Dutta has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2007.

 

 

LISONG XU RECEIVES NSF CAREER AWARD

February 15 , 2007

Former PhD student Lisong Xu received a 2007 NSF CAREER Award for his work on "Stochastic TCP Friendliness."

New COURSE ON "Survivable networks"

January 10, 2007

A Microsoft Research Trustworthy Computing Curricculum award supported the development of a new course, CSC/ECE 791b - Survivable Networks, in Spring 2007.

NET silos PRoject

September 15, 2006

Our Net Silos project is funded by a grant from the NSF Future Internet Design (FIND) program.

A paper describing the Net Silos architectural framework appeared in IEEE ICC 2007, and another paper outlining the software architecture will appear in IEEE ICCCN 2007.

Nikhil baradwaj receives nC STATE ms thesis award

August 3, 2006

Former MS student Nikhil Baradwaj has been selected by the NC State Graduate School as the recipient of the 2006 Nancy G. Pollock MS Thesis Award.

Nikhil's Thesis was on "Traffic Quantization and Its Applications to QoS Routing". Two papers from his thesis will appear in IEEE INFOCOM 2007 and IEEE ICC 2007.

Nikhil is currently with MicroStrategy, McLean, Virginia.