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Current DISCUS Students

Modified May 7, 2007. Still needs some verification.

Ph.D. Students

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• Jie Feng
  • Thesis: Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Supervisors: Derek Eager and Dwight Makaroff
• Dong Zhang
  • Thesis: Wireless Mesh Networks
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt

M.Sc. Students

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• George Biswas
• Thesis area: Virtualization and Autonomic Computing
• Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
  
• Jason Coutu
  • Thesis area: Distributed Hardware/Software Simulations
  • Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
• Justice Daka
  • Thesis: Mixed Reliability for Multimedia Transmission in Wireless Networks
  • Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
• Qinxia (Alice) He
  • Thesis: VOIP Traffic Analysis
    
  • Supervisor: Derek Eager and Dwight Makaroff
• Dana Madsen
• Thesis Area: Distributed Filesystems
• Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
  
• David Schwab
  • Thesis area: Wireless Network Access Behaviour
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt
• Bofu Yang
• Thesis Area: Sensor Networks
• Supervisor: Derek Eager
  

DISCUS Alumni

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• Yongli An
  • Thesis: Performance Implications of High Speed Networks for Distributed Systems
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt
• Martin Arlitt
  • Thesis: Workload Characterization for Internet Web Servers (M. Sc.)
    
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Ram Balakrishnan
  • Thesis: Wavelet-Based Network Traffic Modeling
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Roberta Bodnarchuk
  • Thesis: Characterizing and Modelling the Workload of a Distributed System File Server (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt
• Mudashiru Busari
  • Thesis: Simulation Evaluation of Web Caching Hierarchies
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Niklas Carlsson
  • Thesis: Scalable Download Protocols (Ph. D.)
    
  • Supervisor: Derek Eager
• Xiaozhen Cao
  • Thesis: An Architecture to Support Adaptive Mobile Applications
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt
• Ying Cao
  • Thesis: Performance Evaluation of Admission Control Policies for High Speed Networks (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Kerhong Chen
  • Thesis: Write Caching in Distributed File Systems (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisors: Rick Bunt and Derek Eager
• Vineet Chikarmane
  • Thesis: Network Support for Mobile Hosts in a TCP/IP Internetwork(M.Sc.)
  • Supervisors: Rick Bunt and Carey Williamson
• Sundaram Chinthamani
  • Thesis: Scalability of Parallel Systems
  • Supervisor: Derek Eager
• Satya Dash
  • Thesis: Load Balancing for Parallel Applications in Distributed Systems
  • Supervisor: Derek Eager
• Zhiang Deng
  • Thesis: Modeling and Analysis of Self-Similar Network Traffic
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson, Carl McCrosky
• Kevin Froese
  • Thesis: File System Support for Disconnected and Weakly Connected Operation (M. Sc.)
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt
    
• Neeraj Gulati
  • Thesis: Local Area Network Traffic Locality: Characteristics and Application (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisors: Carey Williamson and Rick Bunt
• Sanjeev Gupta
  • Thesis: A Performance Study of Adaptive Video Coding Algorithms for High Speed Networks (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Tim Harrison
  • Thesis: Performance Evaluation of Routing Algorithms for ATM Multicast Traffic (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Venkata Josyula
  • Thesis: Protocol Performance in Wireless Networking
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt
• Jun Ke
  • Thesis: A Rate-Based TCP Protocol for the Web
  • Supervisors: Carey Williamson
• Sung Hung Ling
  • Thesis: Characterizing and Modelling the Workload of Ethernet Local Area Networks (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisors: Rick Bunt and Derek Eager
• Fujian Liu
  • Thesis: Database Server Workload Characterization in E-commerce Enviroments (M. Sc.)
    
  • Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
• Heng Liu
  • Thesis: Traffic Shaping for Congestion Control in High Speed ATM Networks (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisors: Rick Bunt and Carey Williamson
• Wayne Mackrell
  • Thesis: Routing Support for Mobile Computing
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt
• Anirban Mahanti
  • Thesis: Scalable Protocols for On-Demand Media Streaming over IP Networks (Ph. D.)
    
  • Supervisor: Derek Eager
• Jiangmei Mei
  • Thesis: Adaptive File Cache Management for Mobile Computing (M. Sc.)
    
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt
• Lateef Ogunleye
  • Thesis: Performance Study of Direct and Indirect Routing in Mobile IP Networks  (M. Sc.)
    
  • Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
• Adeniyi Oke
  • Thesis: Workload Characterization for Resource Management in World-Wide Web Servers (M. Sc.)
    
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt
• Soji Oyenuga
  • Thesis: Mobile Multicast Protocol Design and Performance
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Narayanan Prithviraj
  • Thesis: A Virtual Loss-Load Congestion Control Strategy for High Speed Networks (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Shashi Purohit
  • Thesis: Load Sharing in Prioritized Task Environment (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisors: Derek Eager and Rick Bunt
• Swaminathan Ramany
  • Thesis: Routing in Wormhole Networks (Ph.D.)
  • Supervisor: Derek Eager
• Karen Reid
  • Thesis: Priority Queueing in ATM Switches (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt
• Rajesh Sabat
  • Thesis: Video Transmission using Cluster-Based Smoothing
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Jim Sorgo
  • Thesis: Data Locality in Distributed Memory Multiprocessors
  • Supervisor: Derek Eager
• Jayakumar Srinivasan
  • Thesis: Scheduling in Web Servers (M. Sc.)
    
  • Supervisor: Derek Eager
• Srikant Subramanian
  • Thesis: Affinity Scheduling of Unbalanced Workloads (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisor : Derek Eager
• Ying Sun
  • Thesis: Performance Issues in Distributed File Systems
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt
• Azam Syed
  • Thesis: Quantitative Evaluation of Video Coding Algorithms for ATM-based networks (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Anjali Verma
  • Thesis: A Multi-level Approach for Congestion Control in ATM-based B-ISDN (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt
• Lixin Wang
  • Thesis: File sharing on a mobile ad-hoc network (M. Sc.)
    
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt
• Qing Wang
  • Thesis: System and Network Performance in Electronic Commerce (M. Sc.)
    
  • Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
• Wenguang Wang
  • Thesis: Storage Management in DBMS (Ph. D.)
    
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt
• Yanping Wang
  • Thesis: Connection Admission Control (CAC) Algorithms for Self-Similar Traffic
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Qian Wu
  • Thesis: Web/TCP Protocols for Asymmetric Networks
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Fengdi Yang
  • Thesis: ARDAS: A Remote Data Access System  (M. Sc.)
    
  • Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
• Linping Yu
  • Thesis: Prefetching Strategies for the Web
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Lakshmi Yellanki
  • Thesis: Performance Evaluation of Video Traffic Models
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Yanping Zhao
  • Thesis:Scalable On-demand Streaming of Stored Complex Multimedia (Ph. D.)
    
  • Supervisor: Derek Eager
• Milan Zoranovic
  • Thesis: Performance Evaluation of ABR Traffic Control Strategies
  • Supervisor: Carey Williamson
• Qing Zhu
  • Thesis: Peer-to-Peer Stream Merging for Stored Multimedia
  • Supervisor: Derek Eager
• Wanning Zhu
  • Thesis: Characterizing Wide Area Conversations on the Internet (M.Sc.)
  • Supervisor: Rick Bunt

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