Previous graduate students for Ken Christensen

The following is a list of my graduated students.

PhD graduates

  1. Sulav Malla, 2020 (Research Scientist at Meta)
    • Dissertation: "Towards Safe Power Oversubscription and Energy Efficiency of Data Centers"

  2. Mehrgan Mostowfi, 2013 (Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado)
    • Dissertation: "Packet Coalescing and Server Substitution for Energy-Proportional Operation of Network Links and Data Servers"

  3. Miguel Jimeno, 2010 (Associate Professor, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia)
    • Dissertation: "Saving Energy in Network Hosts With an Application Layer Proxy: Design and Evaluation of New Methods That Utilize Improved Bloom Filters"

  4. Graciela Perera, 2007 (Associate Professor, Northeastern Illinois University Chicago)
    • Dissertation: "Design and Evaluation of New Search Paradigms and Power Management for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing"

  5. Chamara Gunaratne, 2007 (Senior Software Developer at Location Labs, Emeryville, California)
    • Dissertation:  "Design and Evaluation of New Power Management Methods to Reduce Direct and Induced Energy Use of the Internet"

  6. Kenji Yoshigoe, 2004 (Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University)
    • Dissertation:  "Design and Evaluation of the Combined Input and Crossbar Queued (CICQ) Switch"

  7. Zornitza Genova Prodanoff, 2003 (Professor, University of North Florida)
    • Dissertation:  "Performance Evaluation of URL Routing for Content Distribution Networks"

  8. Hiroshi Fujinoki, 2001 (Professor, 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"

MS graduates

  1. Donnelle January, 2020
    • Thesis: "Managing Off-Grid Power Use for Solar Fueled Residences with Smart Appliances, Prices-to-Devices and IoT"

  2. Sowmya Srikanth, 2016
    • Thesis: "A Communication Protocol for Nanogrids and its Application in Off-Grid Rural Areas of Developing Countries"

  3. N. Samteladze, 2013
    • Thesis: "Delta Encoding Based Methods to Reduce the Size of Smartphone Application Updates"

  4. M. Mostowfi, 2010
    • Thesis:  "Improving the Energy Efficiency of IEEE 802.3az EEE and Periodically Paused Switched Ethernet"

  5. J. Blackburn, 2010
    • Thesis:  "Design and Evaluation of a Green BitTorrent for Energy-Efficient Content Distribution"

  6. S. Sakamuri, 2005
    • Thesis:  "Design and Evaluation of a New Authentication Mechanism for Validating the Sender of an Email"

  7. J. Shahbazian, 2003
    • Thesis:  "Characterization and Generation of Streaming Video Traces"

  8. V. Chandramohan, 2003
    • Thesis:  "Design and Performance Evaluation of a New Spatial Reuse FireWire Protocol"

  9. J. Rogers, 2002 (with S. Katkoori)
    • Thesis:  "Network Traffic Characterization through Bottleneck Queueing Simulations of Flow and Packet Traces"

  10. V. Elliot, 2001
    • Thesis:  "Forcing Explicit BGP Withdrawals to Reduce Route Oscillation in the Internet"

  11. S. Vaidya, 2001
    • Thesis:  "Performance Evaluation of a Single System Image Server Cluster using Duplicated MAC and IP Addresses"

  12. A. Shaikh, 2001
    • Thesis:  "Traffic Characterization of TCP/IP Bulk Data Transfers on a Gigabit Ethernet"

  13. K. Suryanarayanan, 2000
    • Thesis:  "Performance Evaluation of New methods for Load Balancing of Distributed Apache Web Servers"

  14. A. Solleti, 2000
    • Thesis:  "Efficient Transmission of Stored Video for Improved Management of Network Bandwidth"

  15. A. Mishra, 1999
    • Thesis:  "The RELOAD System for Improved Job Scheduling on a Network of Workstations"

  16. C. Padhye, 1999 (with W. Morenso)
    • Thesis:  "Adaptive FEC Based Loss Control Algorithm for Voice Over IP Applications"

  17. J. Pinto, 1998
    • Thesis:  "A New Algorithm for Voice Playout Based on Adaptive Adjustment of Gaps"

  18. Y. Lu, 1998
    • Thesis:  "Synchronization of Real-Time MPEG Video Communication over Ethernet Using a Selective Discard Scheme"

  19. J. Drobisz, 1998
    • Thesis:  "Adaptive Sampling Methods for High Speed Networks to Determine Traffic Statistics including the Hurst Parameter"

  20. S. Pinninti, 1998
    • Project:  "Network System Management Tool" (Project)

  21. A. Chellamuthu, 1998
    • Project:  "Efficient Computation of Cyclic Redundancy Code"

  22. V. Ballingam, 1997
    • Project:  "Reduction of Self-Similarity by Application-Level Traffic Shaping"

  23. S. Batchu, 1996
    • Project: "Synthetic Workload Generator for an Ethernet Local Area Network"

  24. R. Rauscher, 1996
    • Thesis:  "Improving the Delivery of Time-Constrained Audio/Video Traffic over Ethernet"

  25. N. Javagal, 1996
    • Thesis:  "Performance Evaluation of Current and Future World Wide Web Protocols"
Last update on October 30, 2023