Students and Alumni
Current PhD Students | Current MSc Students
| Recent Alumni | Other Alumni
Modified April 6, 2015.
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- Alireza Montazeri Ghajavarestani
- Thesis area: Information Centric Networking
- Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
- Tuhin Paul
- Thesis area: TBD
- Supervisor: Kevin Stanley
- Winchell Qian
- Thesis area: TBD
- Supervisors: Kevin Stanley and Nate Osgood
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- Anthony Arkles
- Thesis area: Distributed Systems Performance Monitoring
- Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
- Yuntao Mei
- Thesis area: Video Streaming
- Supervisor: Derek Eager
- Osagie (James) Osemwegie
- Thesis area: TBD
- Supervisor: Kevin Stanley
- Zhihong Zhuo
- Thesis area: Cloud Gaming in Virtualized Environments
- Supervisors: Derek Eager and Dwight Makaroff
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All theses are available in the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation
Database at
eCommons@usask.ca
by searching for the student name.
- Dylan Knowles
- Thesis area: Wireless Networking and Health Information
Systems (M.Sc.)
- Supervisors: Kevin Stanley and Nate Osgood
- Wojciech Quibell
- Thesis area: Wireless Mesh Network Intrusion Detection (M.Sc.)
- Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
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- Michael Bullock
- Thesis: Proxy Support for HTTP Adaptive Streaming (M.Sc.)
- Supervisor: Derek Eager
- Graduated: 2014
- Niklas Carlsson
- Thesis: Scalable Download Protocols (Ph. D.)
- Supervisor: Derek Eager
- Graduated: 2009
- Jagmohan Chauhan
- Thesis: Simulation and Perfromance Evaluation of the Hadoop Capacity Scheduler (M.Sc.)
- Supervisors: Dwight Makaroff and Winfried Grassmann
- Graduated: 2013
- Shaiful Chowdhury
- Thesis: Characterizing Popularity Dynamics of User-generated
Videos: A Category-based Study of YouTube (M.Sc.)
- Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
- Graduated: 2013
- Jason Coutu
- Thesis area: Distributed Hardware/Software Simulations (M.Sc.)
- Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
- Graduated: 2009
- Justice Daka
- Thesis: Mixed Reliability for Multimedia Transmission in
Wireless Networks (M.Sc.)
- Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
- Graduated: 2007
- Jie Feng
- Thesis: Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks (Ph.D.)
- Supervisors: Derek Eager and Dwight Makaroff
- Graduated: 2009
- Md. Nazmul Hasan
- Thesis: Online Content Popularity in the Twitterverse: A
Case Study of Online News (M.Sc.)
- Supervisor: Derek Eager
- Graduated: 2014
- Mohammad Hashemian
- Thesis: Human dynamic networks in opportunistic routing and
epidemiology (M.Sc.)
- Supervisors: Kevin Stanley and Nate Osgood
- Graduated: 2009
- Qinxia (Alice) He
- Thesis: VOIP Traffic Analysis (M.Sc.)
- Supervisors: Derek Eager and Dwight Makaroff
- Graduated: 2007
- Tanjil Hossain
- Thesis: An energy efficient http adaptive streaming protocol
design for mobile hand-held devices (M.Sc.)
- Supervisors: Derek Eager and Dwight Makaroff
- Graduated: 2013
- Muhammad Islam
- Thesis: Popularity Characterization and Modelling for
User-generated Videos (M.Sc.)
- Supervisor: Derek Eager
- Graduated: 2013
- Shahriar Kaisar
- Thesis: Smartphone traffic characteristics and context
dependencies (M.Sc.)
- Supervisor: Derek Eager and Kevin Stanley
- Graduated: 2012
- Venkat Pulami
- Thesis: CDAR : contour detection aggregation and routing in
sensor networks (M.Sc.)
- Supervisors: Derek Eager and Kevin Stanley
- Graduated: 2010
- Khadija Rasul
- Thesis: Enhanced Community-Based Routing for Low-Capacity
Pocket Switched Networks (M.Sc.)
- Supervisor: Dwight Makaroff
- Graduated: 2013
- Bofu Yang
- Thesis: Reliable data delivery in wireless sensor
networks (M.Sc.)
- Supervisor: Derek Eager
- Graduated: 2010
- Dong Zhang
- Thesis: Performance issues in cellular wireless mesh
networks (Ph.D.)
- Supervisor: Rick Bunt
- Graduated: 2009
- Qing Zhu
- Thesis: Peer-to-Peer Stream Merging for Stored Multimedia
- Supervisor: Derek Eager
- Graduated: 2007
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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
- Xiaozhen Cao
- Thesis: An Architecture to Support Adaptive Mobile
Applications
- Supervisor: Rick Bunt
- Ying Cao
- Kerhong Chen
- Vineet Chikarmane
- 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
- Sanjeev Gupta
- Tim Harrison
- Venkata Josyula
- Thesis: Protocol Performance in Wireless Networking
- Supervisor: Rick Bunt
- Jun Ke
- Thesis: A Rate-Based TCP Protocol for the Web
- Supervisor: 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
- 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
- Soji Oyenuga
- Thesis: Mobile Multicast Protocol Design and Performance
- Supervisor: Carey Williamson
- Narayanan Prithviraj
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Wanning Zhu
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