Distributed Systems,
Network Protocols &
Applications Group
Current PhD Advisees
Past PhD Advisees
Xinyu Zhuang
Group Communication support for Multi-player Games, MS CS 2007
Yuxiang Liu
Managing and Monitoring Spectrum Usage in a Wireless Network, Senior Thesis 2006
Sameer Moidu
Evaluating Dense, Residential Deployments of 802.11, Senior Thesis 2004
Zachary R Anderson
Choosing Beacon Period for Improved Response Time for Wireless HTTP Clients, Senior Thesis 2004
Arvind Kannan
Scaling Properties of the Internet Graph, Senior Thesis 2003
Hemant Bhanoo
Realistic Traffic Generators for Network Simulation, MS INI 2002
Justin Weisz
Programming Tools for Internet Games, Senior Thesis 2002
Aditya Ganjam
Enabling Kernel processing for Web Proxies and Overlay Multicast, Senior Thesis 2002
Fahad Dogar
Inter-networking Over Segments to Accommodate Edge Diversity, 5/2011 (expected)
Steven Okamoto
Network Design for Partial Centralization in Multi-agent Systems, 5/2011 (expected)
Hong Yan
A Practical System for Centralized Network Control, 6/2010 (expected)
Glenn Judd
Using Emulation to Understand and Improve WLAN Performance, 10/2006
Rajesh Balan
Tactics-Based Remote Execution, 5/2006
Hal Burch
Measuring the Internet in situ, 3/2005
David Petrou
Cluster scheduling for explicitly-speculative tasks, 12/2004
An-Cheng Huang
Building Self-configuring Services Using Service-specific Knowledge, 12/2004
Distributed Scalable Content Discovery Based on Rendezvous Points, 10/2004
Enabling Live Internet Broadcasting using an Application Endpoint Architecture, 10/2004
Establishing the Viability of End System Multicast using a Systems Approach to Protocol Design, 8/2004
Kay Sripanidkulchai
Measurement-Driven Design of Peer-to-Peer Content Distribution Systems, 8/2004
Adaptive Demand-Driven Multicast Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, 4/2004
Ariton Xhafa
Analysis of Handover Priority Schemes in Wireless Networks, 10/2003
Providing Quality-of-Service Guarantees in Wireless Networks, 8/2003
Mobility Prediction Based Resource Reservation and Restorability Enhancement in Cellular Networks, 8/2003
Enabling Secure High Performance Wireless Ad Hoc Networking, 4/2003
Prashant Pradhan (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Addressing the Challenges of High-Performance, Safely Extensible Router Design, 2000
Past PhD Thesis Committee
Eugene Marinelli
Hyrax: Cloud Computing on Mobile Devices using MapReduce, 10/2009
Gesly George
A Flexible MAC Development Environment for Software Radios, 5/2006
Rahul Dhar
Towards an Adaptive MAC Layer: A CSMA/CA Scheme for the GNU Radio Platform, 5/2005
Hen-I Yang
Service Discovery Systems, 5/2002
Carlos Olguin
A Service Brokerage Deployment Architecture, 10/2001
Jia-Cheng Hu
Conference Gateway Supporting Interoperability between SIP and H.323 Clients, 2/2001
Jiann-Min Ho
Conference Gateway Supporting Interoperability between SIP and H.323 Clients, 2/2001
Past MS Thesis Committee
Started: Fall 2009
Started: Fall 2007
Started: Fall 2007
Started: Fall 2006, Expected completion: Spring 2011
Thesis: Maximizing Spatial Reuse In Indoor Environments
Started: Fall 2003, Finished: Summer 2009
Thesis: Quantifying and Mitigating Privacy Threats in Wireless Protocols and Services
Employer: AT&T Research
Started: Fall 2001, Expected completion: Fall 2010
Thesis: Scalable and Secure Architectures for Online Multiplayer Games
Employer: Facebook
Started: Fall 2000, Expected completion: Summer 2010
Thesis: Coping with Change in Distributed Systems
Employer: Meraki Networks
Started: Fall 2000, Finished: Summer 2005
Thesis: Exploiting Redundancy for Robust Sensing
Employer: Microsoft Research, Redmond
Started: Fall 2000, Finished: Summer 2005
Thesis: End-Point Based Routing Strategies for Improving Internet Performance
Employer: University of Wisconsin
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