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My active research areas
I have a long-standing interest in the monitoring, measurement, characterization and modelling of the Internet. High-speed network monitoring (40Gbps, 100Gbps) is used when networks move to the latest generation networking speeds. Largely, this is to ensure customers, applications and computer-systems can make the best use of the higher speeds. This led to the Nprobe/GRIDprobe projects.
More recently my interests in network-monitoring involve accurately identifying the behaviour of users in project BRASIL.
Work in measurement and in characterizing network use has led to a desire to understand the limits of such measurement and this avenue of work is embodied in a new project Doe-Net.
Effective use of photonics in computer-systems drives my research in a different direction. Why photonics? Photonics (optical) systems have different trade-off concerns in comparison with Electrical systems. An example is how photonic systems have significantly lower costs for distance, lower (potential) costs for energy-needs, lower (potential) costs for heat-production, but nothing is free and photonic systems are subject to physical contraints. The Swallow project umbrellas this work. Basically,
I also love the NetFPGA project. Intended as programmable hardware for high-speed network prototypes it is exactly the sort of hardware to help students come to terms with how all this stuff works. Our local project pages are here.
Things in the past that I've done...
I am very grateful to my sponsors who have supported me over the years.
My sponsors include:
Thank you all.