Ph. D. Students

Advising

• Past:
  • Dragana Damjanovic, "Parallel TCP Data Transfers: A Practical Model and its Application", 2nd examiner James Sterbenz, defense passed on 25 June 2010 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
  • Kashif Munir, "Admission and Congestion Control for Deadline Constrained Data Transfers", 2nd examiner Renato Lo Cigno, defense passed on 29 May 2009 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
  • Murtaza Yousaf, "Accurate Shared Bottleneck Detection and File Transfer Delay Prediction for Grid Scheduling", 2nd examiner Renato Lo Cigno, defense passed on 18 December 2008 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
• Ongoing:
• Michael Schier, "Using Prioritization for increasing Robustness of Video Delivery in Live Streaming Applications", University of Innsbruck, Austria.
• Humaira Ijaz, improving overlay-underlay mapping in P2P systems, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
• Naeem Khademi, 802.11 AP buffer sizing for TCP.

Co-advising

• Past:
  • Nguyen Anh Tuan, "Adaptation and Robustness in Peer-to-Peer Streaming", main advisor Frank Eliassen, defense passed May 2011 at the University of Oslo, Norway.
  • Inofficial support:
    • Sven Hessler, "Protection of Data Networks by Enforcing Congestion Control on UDP Flows", main advisor Max Mühlhäuser, 2nd examiner Alexander Schill, defense passed on 27 October 2008 at TU Darmstadt, Germany.
    • Muhammad Ali, "Fault Tolerance and Error Control in 2D Mesh-based Networks on Chip", main advisor Sybille Hellebrand, 2nd examiner Max Mühlhäuser, defense passed June 2008 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Member of defense committee

• Dominik Kaspar, "Multipath Aggregation of Heterogeneous Access Networks", University of Oslo, January 2012.
• Israfil Biswas, "Internet congestion control for variable rate TCP traffic", Aberdeen University, January 2012.
• Ahmed Elmokashfi, "On BGP Inter-domain Routing: an Investigation of Scalability with Respect to Churn", University of Oslo, May 2011.
• Matthias Röckl, "Cooperative Situation Awareness in Transportation", University of Innsbruck, Austria, December 2009.
• Andrés Arcia, "Modifications du mécanisme d'acquittement du protocole TCP: évaluation et application aux résaux filaires et sans fils", Telecom Bretagne, Rennes, France, December 2009.
• Andreas Petlund, "Latency-reducing transport protocol mechanisms for thin-stream applications", University of Oslo, Norway, December 2009.
• Roberto Cascella, "Application of Reputation Management Systems in Autonomic Communication Networks", University of Trento, Italy, 30 November 2007.

Last update: 18. January 2012
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