Professional Associations:
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Senior Member.
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Senior Member.
- American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Graduate Faculties / Mentoring History:
Doctoral Dissertations:
- Abraham N. Aldaco-Gastelum, ``A Framework for Screening Experiments and Modelling in Complex Systems,'' Spring 2015.
- Jonathan Lutz, ``Scheduled Medium Access Control in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,'' Fall 2013. (Co-advised with Professor C. J. Colbourn.)
- Kahkashan Shaukat, ``Statistical Monitoring and Control of Locally Proactive Routing Protocols in MANETs,'' Spring 2012.
- Yuhan Moon, ``Cooperative Multi-Channel MAC Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,'' Fall 2010.
- Suhaib A. Obeidat, ``Cross-Layer Opportunistic Adaptation for Voice Communications over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,'' Spring 2008.
- Daniel W. McClary, ``Modelling and Monitoring Ad Hoc Networks,'' Spring 2008.
- Minghao Cui, ``Contention Resolution with Power Control in Wireless Medium Access,'' Fall 2007.
- Kiran K. Vadde, ``Network Protocols: Interactions and their Statistical Optimization,'' Fall 2005.
- Andrew D. Myers, ``Hybrid Media Access Control Techniques for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks,'' Spring 2002. Co-advised with Professor I. Chlamtac. (Winner of the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award at the University of Texas at Dallas!)
Masters Theses:
- Arjun Magge, ``Fixed Verse Generation using Neural Word Embeddings,'' Summer 2016.
- Ray Robles, ``Analysis and Design of Native File System Enhancements for Storage Class Memory,'' Spring 2015.
- Janakarajan Natarajan, ``Analysis and Visualization of OpenFlow Rule Conflicts,'' Spring 2016. (Co-advised with Professor D. Huang.)
- Felipe Stall Rechia, ``An Evaluation of SDN Based Network Virtualization Techniques,'' Spring 2016. (Felipe won an award to attend the FGRE GENI/FIRE Summit at iMinds in Ghent, Belgium in July 2015!)
- J. Matthew Welch, ``Performance Optimization of Linux Networking for Latency-Sensitive Virtual Systems,'' Fall 2015.
- Jinxuan Wu, ``A Network Function Virtualization based Load Balancer for TCP,'' Spring 2015.
- Nicole Ang, ``Generating Mixed-Level Covering Arrays with λ = 2 and Test Prioritization,'' Spring 2015. (Nicole won an AFIO/SDSI scholarship!)
- Ashkan Ghaffarinejad, ``Comparing a Commercial and an SDN-Based Load Balancer in a Campus Network,'' Spring 2015.
- Jeremy Wright, ``Topic Chains for Determining Risk of Unauthorized Information Transfer,'' Fall 2014.
- Eric Van Egmond, ``Context-Aware Search Principles in Automated Learning Environments,'' Fall 2014. (Co-advised with Professor W. Burleson.)
- Omid Alipourfard, ``Infinite CacheFlow: A Rule-Caching Solution for Software Defined Networks,'' Summer 2014.
- Sai Vishnu K. Byhravajosyula, ``A New Backoff Strategy using Topological Persistence in Wireless Networks,'' Fall 2013.
- Namrata Bapat, ``Adapting Sensing and Transmission Times to Improve Secondary User Throughput,'' Spring 2012.
- Shiraz Saleem, ``An On-Demand Energy-Aware Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks,'' Spring 2010.
- Supreet S. Nagi, ``Test-Bed Validation of Physical Layer Modeling in Network Simulation,'' Fall 2009.
- Sanket Joshi, ``A Shared Memory Approach for Invoking MATLAB Physical Layer Models from the ns-2 Network Simulator,'' Fall 2008. (Co-advised with Professor M.A. Janssen.)
- Manasi Velhankar, ``A Multi-Channel MAC Layer Protocol with Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for Ad Hoc Networks,'' Spring 2007.
- Bing Li, ``An Evaluation of Contention and Scheduled MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Spring 2007.
- Dmitri Lushnikov, ``Rateless Forward Erasure Correction for Data Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Fall 2006.
- Youngjin Kwon, ``Analysis of Network Dynamics in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,'' Fall 2006.
- Michael R. Van Milligan, ``An Energy Efficient Topology Transparent Medium Access Control Protocol,'' Summer 2006.
- Kahkashan Shaukat, ``Integrating OLSR into the MERIT Assessment Framework,'' Fall 2005.
- Sitaram Shah, ``A Protocol Interaction Study using Design and Analysis of Experiments,'' Fall 2004.
- Minghao Cui, ``Securing Dynamic Spectrum Use,'' Summer 2004.
- Satish Doraiswamy, ``An Extended MERIT Framework for Assessment of MANET Routing Protocols,'' Summer 2004.
- Sruthi Yellamraju, ``Erasure Codes as an Acknowledgement Scheme in Topology Transparent Scheduling,'' Spring 2004.
- Suresh Ramkumar, ``Adaptive Bandwidth Utilization,'' Fall 2003.
- Amaresh Bikki, ``Using Inverse Optimization to Model the Effect of Congestion on Routing Protocols in MANETs,'' Summer 2002.
- Priya Narayan, ``Evaluation of MANET Routing Protocols using the MERIT Framework,'' Spring 2002.
Undergraduate Projects:
- Nathaniel Flick, ``Testbed Implementation of the Meta-MAC Protocol,'' Spring 2016. (Nathan won the Outstanding CSE Student award in Spring 2016.)
- Ryan Dougherty, ``Exploration of Sea Ice Concentrations using Graph Metrics,'' Senior Honours Thesis, Spring 2014.
- Chloe Wallace-Patterson, ``Graph Analysis of Arctic Ice,'' Senior Honours Thesis, Spring 2013.
- David K. Weber, NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Spring 2008.
- Rumana Islam, NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Spring, Fall 2007.
- Shaher Al Marzougi, NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Fall 2006.
- Treavyonne Jeffries, NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Spring 2005 -- Spring 2006.
- Bobby Janecka, 2002 Eugene McDermott Scholar, Summer Research Scholarship, Summer 2002.
- Justin Appleby, 2001 Eugene McDermott Scholar, Summer Research Scholarship, Summer 2001.
- Steven Blackburn, ``A k-means Clustering Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks,'' Spring 2000.
- Rodeen Talebi, ``On-Demand Location-Aware Multicast (OLAM) for Ad Hoc Networks,'' Spring 1999.
- James D. Hope II, ``Data Security Over Computer Networks,'' Fall 1997.
- Gwendolyn Hill, ``Asynchronous Checkpointing for Distributed Systems,'' Fall 1997.
- Michael K. Archer, ``A Scalable External Sort for Distributed Operating Systems,'' Spring 1996.
- Wayne S. Chan, Summer Research Internship, ``The Evolution of Linear Cellular Automata and the Classification of their Limit Languages,'' Summer 1992.