High Performance Communication Networks
Brian L. Mark
• Broadband Switch Architectures
• Handoff in Cellular Networks
• Mobility Tracking in Wireless Networks
• Security and Quality-of-Service in MANETs
• Educational Networking Laboratory
Outline
20th Anniversary of ECE Dept. at GMU
Recent Graduate Students • 3 PhD, 1 M.S. Thesis
External Research Funding • TRW Foundation, �Resource Management and Traffic Control for Wireless Networks,� 2001-2004.
• NSF Early Faculty Career Award, �Design, Modeling, and Control of High Performance Communication Networks,� 2002-2007.
• NSF-funded �SEQUOIA� project, �Integrating security and quality-of-service in routing and mobility management for ad hoc networks,� 2002-2005.
Current Graduate Students / Postdoc • 1 Postdoc, 2 PhD (one part-time), 1 M.S. Thesis
Broadband Switch Architectures
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O/E E/O Control Module
Optical Space Switch
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Optical Burst Switch for Core Networks
Research Results: Scheduling algorithms and performance models for multi-hope edge switch and optical burst switch architectures.
Xiaomin Lu, �Modeling and Analysis of Broadband Switch Architectures,� PhD in ECE, Dec. 2002.
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Crossbar Switch Fabric
Routing
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Injection channel
Ejection channel
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Multi-hop Node Architecture for Edge Networks
Handoff in Cellular Networks Alexe Leu, �Modeling and Analysis of Handoff Algorithms in Cellular Networks,� PhD in ECE, Nov. 2003.
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Research Results: • Closed-form analysis of handoff probabilities for hysteresis and timer-based handoff algorithms.
• Local averaging technique for faster handoff.
Mobility tracking in cellular networks
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Parameter Estimator
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Autoregressive Mobility Model
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Mobility Tracking Scheme
Zainab Zaidi, �Mobility Modeling and Tracking in Wireless Networks,� PhD in ECE, Feb. 2004.
SEQUOIA Project
• Dr. Roshan Thomas, McAfee Research
• Dr. Kris Gaj
Co-investigators:
Graduate students: • Marek Hejmo, PhD, �Quality-of-Service Provisioning�
• Charikleia Zouridaki, PhD, �Security Mechanisms�
• Stefan Velica, MS, �Secure Routing�
Research associate: • Dr. Zainab Zaidi
• Funded under NSF Trusted Computing Program
�SEcurity and QUality-Of-service Integration in Ad hoc wireless networks
Mobility-aware routing for MANETs
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1. Distributed Mobility Tracking
2. Prediction of link availability
3. Routing based on link availability
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Routing with multiple security attributes
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Security-inclusive Routing for MANETs