Group Members

Faculty

• Azer Bestavros
  Azer Bestavros focusses his research work on techniques for involving servers into the caching, prefetching, and replication protocols in distributed information systems (such as the WWW).

• Mark Crovella
  Mark Crovella is applying performance measurement and analysis of the Internet to problems in wide-area resource discovery, caching, and replication.

• Abdelsalam Heddaya
  Abdelsalam Heddaya concentrates on name resolution, routing and caching protocols, that achieve desirable Internet-wide global properties (such as load-balancing) while using purely local information.

• Stan Sclaroff
  Stan Sclaroff is interested in the development of efficient representations for content-based image and video database search for the WWW.

• David Yates
  David Yates studies computer networks in his research, focusing on issues of scale, performance, security, and privacy, as networks become ubiquitous.

Visiting Scholars

• Virgilio Almeida
  Virgilio Almeida is interested in studying and modeling the behavior of caching systems for large-scale information systems.

• Cristina Duarte-Murta
  Cristina Duarte-Murta is interested in studying the impacts of realistic traffic on various aspects of the Web server performance.

Students

• Alia Atlas
  Alia Atlas' research focusses on developing and evaluating TCP-variants suitable for Web short-lived connections over a network with bursty traffic.

• Paul Barford
  Paul Barford's research focuses on developing performance modeling, measurement and evaluation techniques for distributed systems such as the WWW.

• Robert Carter
  Bob Carter's research involves development of techniques for application-level end-to-end network performance measurement and their application to the server selection problem.

• Carlos Cunha
  Carlos Cunha's research focusses on developing and evaluating client and server log-based mechanisms to improve the performance of information retrieval.

• Gitae Kim
  Gi Kim's research focusses on developing and evaluating communication protocols for applications with real-time, fault-tolerant requirements.

• Sulaiman Mirdad
  

Alumni

• Felix Kozodoy (Spring 1996)
  Felix' Masters Project involved the design of a user proxy for recording statistics of user access patterns.

• Leonid Taycher
  Leonid's Masters Project involved the design of several components for the ImageRover project.

• Chau Anh Nguyen (Spring 1996)
  Nguyen's undergraduate directed studies involved extending the NCSA HTTP server (HTTPd) to provide hints to clients for prefetching purposes based on 1st and 2nd order Markov models for server documents.

• Martin Mroz (Fall 1995)
  Martin's Masters Project involved the extending Mosaic 2.4 to support disk caching and client-initiated prefetching.

Created on: May 6, 1995. 
Updated on: July 22, 1996. 
Maintainer: Azer Bestavros