News:

Congratulations to Claris Castillo for defending her Ph.D. Thesis in May 2008.

Congratulations to Sangmin Kim for defending his Ph.D. Thesis in November 2007.

Congratulations to Chih-Chiang Wang for defending his Ph.D. Thesis in April 2007.

Office Hours:

Mon & Wed: 4:00-5:00

Teaching:

Fall 2008: CSC 573 Internet Protocols

Awards:

NSF CAREER award (ANI-0347226)

Latest Publications:

1. H. Luo and K. Harfoush, "Evaluation of Low-Distortion Approximation Methods For Overlay Multicast Tree Construction". In proceedings of the fifth International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks & Enabling Technologies (HONET '08), Penang, Malaysia, November, 2008. [PDF]

2. H. Luo and K. Harfoush, "Hybrid Multicast with Partial Network Support". In proceedings of the fifth International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks & Enabling Technologies (HONET '08), Penang, Malaysia, November, 2008. [PDF]

3. A. Lal, V. Gupta, K. Harfoush and I. Rhee, "Towards the Feasibility and Scalability of Text Search in Peer-to-Peer Systems". In proceedings of the fifth International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HOT-P2P'08), Miami, Florida, April 18, 2008. [PDF]

4. C. Castillo, G. Rouskas and K. Harfoush, "Efficient Resource Management using Advance Reservations for Heterogeneous Grids". In proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '08), Miami, Florida, April 14-18, 2008. [PDF]

5.  S. Kim and K. Harfoush, “The Causal Factors Behind Internet Power-Law Connectivity". In proceedings of IEEE Conference of Computer Communications INFOCOM ’07, Anchorage, Alaska, May 12-16, 2007. [PDF]

6. Wang and K. Harfoush, “On the Stability-Scalability Tradeoffs of  DHT Deployment". In proceedings of IEEE Conference of Computer Communications INFOCOM ’07, Anchorage, Alaska, May 12-16, 2007. [PDF]

7. S. Kim and K. Harfoush, “Efficient Estimation of More Detailed Internet IP Maps". In proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC ’07, Glasgow, Scotland, June 24-28, 2007. [PDF]

8. M. Neginhal, K. Harfoush, and H. Perros, “Measuring Bandwidth Signatures of Network Paths". In proceedings of IFIP Networking 2007, Atlanta, GA, May 14-18, 2007. [PDF]

9. C. Castillo, G. Rouskas, and K. Harfoush, “On the Design of Online Scheduling Algorithms for Advance Reservations and QoS in Grids". In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on parallel and Distributed Systems, IPDPS 2007, Long Beach, California, March 26-30, 2007. [PDF]

10. S. Kim and K. Harfoush, “Scalable Coordination for Sensor Networks in Challenging Environments". In proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Seoul, South Korea. [PDF]

11. F. Xing, Y. Xu, M. Zhao, and K. Harfoush, "Obstacle-Aware Routing in Ad-hoc Networks". In proceedings of the 2007 Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2007), Orlando, Florida, October 29-31, 2007. [PDF]

12. C. Castillo, G. Rouskas, and K. Harfoush, "Efficient Implementation of Best-Fit Scheduling for Advance Reservations and QoS in Grids". In proceedings of the 1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on End-to-end Virtualization and Grid Management (EVGM 2007), San José, California, October 29-30, 2007. [PDF]

Tools Implemented :

PeriScope is a Linux API that enables the definition of arbitrary probing structures and inference techniques from user space through a flexible interface. For more information about PeriScope, refer to our PAM 2002 paper. Click here to download and build PerisScope and here for a sample program using the PeriScope API.

Current Ph.D. Students:

1. Huan Luo

2. Xuezhou Ma

3. Lifang Guo

Graduated Ph.D. Students:

1. Chih-CHiang Wang

2. Sangmin Kim

3. Claris Castillo