Updated
08/16/07

Welcome to the Information Systems Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida. This laboratory was founded in 1995. The focus is on research in performance evaluation of computer networks. Members of this laboratory include departmental faculty, visiting faculty and students, graduate students, and undergraduate students.

A poster describing the laboratory is here.

Contact

Any student with an interest in research in the broad area of computer networks should contact: Ken Christensen or Miguel Labrador.

Research projects

The key projects of the lab are:
  • See faculty homepages for a description of current and past projects (here for Ken Christensen and here for Miguel Labrador).

Current members

  • See faculty homepages for a listing of current memebers (here for Ken Christensen and here for Miguel Labrador).

Alumni members

  • See faculty homepages for a listing of alumni memebers (here for Ken Christensen and here for Miguel Labrador).

Facilities

The Information Systems Laboratory consists of two rooms; ENB 213 is the main laboratory containing test beds and large equipment and ENB 323 is a smaller graduate student office. The main laboratory contains a Cisco router testbed for education use, a Gigabit Ethernet switching test bed for education and research use, and a Web100 and Dummynet testbed for education and research use.

The Web100 and Dummynet test bed consists of two end systems interconnected by an intermediate router (PC-based). The end systems run the Web100 toolkit to experiment with TCP while the intermediate router use Dummynet to simulate different networking environments and network conditions. The testbed is also equipped with all the necessary tools to capture and plot the results from experiments.

The Cisco router test bed is built from equipment generously donated by Cisco and is comprised of:

  • Eight Cisco MWR1900 routers
  • Eight PCs running the Linux operating system
  • Eight Ethernet swtiches and hubs
  • Tools to capture, monitor, and analyze packets
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