Previous graduate students for Ken Christensen

My previous Ph.D. students are:

1. Graciela Perera, 2007 (Assistant Professor at Youngstown State University)
   • Dissertation: "Design and Evaluation of New Search Paradigms and Power Management for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing"
2. Chamara Gunaratne, 2007 (Software Engineer at Focus, Inc.)
   • Dissertation:  "Design and Evaluation of New Power Management Methods to Reduce Direct and Induced Energy Use of the Internet"
3. Kenji Yoshigoe, 2004 (Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
   • Dissertation:  "Design and Evaluation of the Combined Input and Crossbar Queued (CICQ) Switch"
4. Zornitza Genova Prodanoff, 2003 (Assistant Professor at the University of North Florida)
   • Dissertation:  "Performance Evaluation of URL Routing for Content Distribution Networks"
5. Hiroshi Fujinoki, 2001 (Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville)
   • Dissertation:  "Performance Evaluation of Multicast Routing Algorithms to Trade-off Path Length and Bandwidth Consumption and of a Protocol to Reduce Messaging Overhead"

My previous M.S. students are:

1. S. Sakamuri, 2005
   • Thesis:  "Design and Evaluation of a New Authentication Mechanism for Validating the Sender of an Email"
2. J. Shahbazian, 2003
   • Thesis:  "Characterization and Generation of Streaming Video Traces"
3. Vijay Chandramohan, 2003
   • Thesis:  "Design and Performance Evaluation of a New Spatial Reuse FireWire Protocol"
4. J. Rogers, 2002 (with S. Katkoori)
   • Thesis:  "Network Traffic Characterization through Bottleneck Queueing Simulations of Flow and Packet Traces"
5. V. Elliot, 2001
   • Thesis:  "Forcing Explicit BGP Withdrawals to Reduce Route Oscillation in the Internet"
6. S. Vaidya, 2001
   • Thesis:  "Performance Evaluation of a Single System Image Server Cluster using Duplicated MAC and IP Addresses"
7. A. Shaikh, 2001
   • Thesis:  "Traffic Characterization of TCP/IP Bulk Data Transfers on a Gigabit Ethernet"
8. K. Suryanarayanan, 2000
   • Thesis:  "Performance Evaluation of New methods for Load Balancing of Distributed Apache Web Servers"
9. A. Solleti, 2000
   • Thesis:  "Efficient Transmission of Stored Video for Improved Management of Network Bandwidth"
10. A. Mishra, 1999
    • Thesis:  "The RELOAD System for Improved Job Scheduling on a Network of Workstations"
11. C. Padhye, 1999 (with W. Morenso)
    • Thesis:  "Adaptive FEC Based Loss Control Algorithm for Voice Over IP Applications"
12. J. Pinto, 1998
    • Thesis:  "A New Algorithm for Voice Playout Based on Adaptive Adjustment of Gaps"
13. Y. Lu, 1998
    • Thesis:  "Synchronization of Real-Time MPEG Video Communication over Ethernet Using a Selective Discard Scheme"
14. J. Drobisz, 1998
    • Thesis:  "Adaptive Sampling Methods for High Speed Networks to Determine Traffic Statistics including the Hurst Parameter"
15. S. Pinninti, 1998
    • Project:  "Network System Management Tool" (Project)
16. A. Chellamuthu, 1998
    • Project:  "Efficient Computation of Cyclic Redundancy Code"
17. V. Ballingam, 1997
    • Project:&npsp; "Reduction of Self-Similarity by Application-Level Traffic Shaping"
18. S. Batchu, 1996
    • Project: "Synthetic Workload Generator for an Ethernet Local Area Network"
19. R. Rauscher, 1996
    • Thesis:  "Improving the Delivery of Time-Constrained Audio/Video Traffic over Ethernet"
20. N. Javagal, 1996
    • Thesis:  "Performance Evaluation of Current and Future World Wide Web Protocols"

My previous External Masters students are:

• Joakim Erenlöf and Felix Huttel (examiner TBD, Jönköping University (Sweden)), 2008
  Thesis: TBD
• J. Klamra and M. Olsson (examiner C. Nyberg, Lund University (Sweden)), 2006
  • Thesis: "Design and Evaluation of Power Management Support for UPnP Devices"

Last update on December 17, 2007