Derek Eager

Derek Eager

B.Sc. (Regina); M.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto)

Department of Computer Science
University of Saskatchewan
Room 281.2 Thorvaldson Building
110 Science Place
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C9
Canada
(306) 966-4899 (office)
(306) 966-4884 (fax)
eager at cs dot usask dot ca



Research Interests

Design and performance evaluation issues in distributed systems and networks. Current work is focused on scalable techniques and architectures for on-demand content delivery, such as in video-on-demand, and on the design and performance evaluation of sensor networks.


Professional Activities

Professional activities include active participation in SIGMETRICS, the ACM Special Interest Group on performance evaluation, including a term as SIGMETRICS Chair (2001-2003), service as program chair for the SIGMETRICS 1987 conference, and as a general co-chair for SIGMETRICS 2005. Current program committee memberships include SIGMETRICS 2010 and QTNA 2010.


Teaching (Term 2 2009/10)


Current Graduate Students

Jie Feng, Shahriar Kaisar, Venkat Pulimi, Bofu Yang


Publications