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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 item)

 

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)

 

BOOK ON TRAFFIC GROOMING AVAILABLE IN JUNE 2008

March 1, 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, will be available from Springer in the summer of 2008.

Preorder from Amazon.

 

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 item)

 

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 item)

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.