Cloud and Data Center Dependability, Data Center Networks, Internet in education
Recent Publications
D. Lin, M. Hamdi, and J. K. Muppala, Distributed Packet
Buffers for High-Bandwidth Switches and Routers, IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems, to appear.
J. K. Muppala, Teaching Embedded Software Concepts Using Android,
Proc. 2011 Workshop on Embedded Systems
Education (WESE 2011), part of EMSOFT 2011,
Taipei, Taiwan, Oct.
13, 2011.
W. Liu, J. Xu, J. K. Muppala, W. Zhang, X. Wu,
Y. Ye, Coroutine-based Synthesis of Efficient Embedded
Software from SystemC Models, Embedded Systems Letters,
IEEE, Vol. 3, No. 1, March 2011, pp.46 - 49.
L. Xia and J. K. Muppala, A Survey of BitTorrent Performance,
IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Vol. 12, No. 2, Second Quarter 2010, pp. 140 - 158.
Principal Investigator, RGC Earmarked Research Grant on “Exploiting
Proximity in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks,” for HK$ 384,000 (Jan. 2008
– Dec. 2009)
Dr. Zhang, Lei (Ph.D., August 2006, Alleviating Problems due to
Resource Constraints in Computer Networks Using Additional Information,
co-supervised with Late Prof. Sam Chanson) Now with Tsinghua University Graduate School in Shenzhen.
Dr. Chang, Xiaolin (Ph.D., May 2005, On Improving Internet Quality of
Service Using a Control Theoretic Approach) Now with Beijing Jiaotong
University, Formerly with Red Flag Linux, Beijing, China
MPhil Students
Kwan, Shun Kit, Jack (MPhil, Jun. 2010, Discovering
Resources and Scheduling Concurrent Bag-of-Tasks Applications in
Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Volunteer Desktop Grids )
Now with J. P. Morgan, Hong Kong.
Xia, Lei, Raymond (M.Phil, January 2010,
Discovering Free-riders Before Trading: A Simple Approach)
Now with UFIDA (Hong Kong)
Co., Ltd.
Chan, Kin Kong Oswin (M.Phil, July 2007, Enhancing Course Content
through Lecture Recordings and New Web Technologies)
Lin, Xiaoyang (M.Phil, June 2005, Improving Fairness in the 802.11
Infrastructure Wireless Local Area Networks) Now with Oracle, Shenzhen,
China
Yuen, Kwan-Hung Chris (M.Phil., January 2003, TCP Performance over
Satellite Networks)
Lo, Chor Wing Chloe (M.Phil., May 2002, Voice over IP Performance using
Expedited Forwarding and Assured Forwarding on Differentiated Services
Enabled Network)
Leung, Kai Kin Ivan (M.Phil, August 2001, Performance of TCP using
Explicit Congestion Notification with Different Marking Strategies over a
Differentiated Services Enabled Network) Now with Freescale Inc., Hong Kong
Yang, Yi (M.Phil., August 2001, Quality of Service Routing Algorithms
for Bandwidth-Delay Constrained Applications, co-supervised with Prof. Sam
Chanson)
Fung, Wai Kwok (M.Phil., July 2001, Evaluation of Server-Side and
Client-Side Micro-Payment Systems, co-supervised with Prof. Vincent Shen)
Liu, Alan (M.Phil., July 2001, Security Issues on Server-Side
Credit-based Micro-Payment Systems, co-supervised with Prof. Vincent Shen)
Bancherdvanich, Terdsak (M.Phil., August 2000, Maintaining Voice Quality
of VoIP Application in a Differentiated Services Environment)
Tyagi, Anurag (M.Phil. June 2000, Performance of VoIP over
Diffserv-Enabled Network)
Chan, Kin Chu (M.Phil., August 1996, A Performance Study of Multiple
Page Server Architectures, co-supervised with Dr. Kamal Karlapalem)
Previous Visiting Researchers
Dr. Tu, Wanqing (Post-doctoral Research Associate, 2006, now with Univ.
of Cork, Ireland)