RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS
 

IBRAHIM M. MATTA
 
 

FEBRUARY 2002

My research activities center on the design and analysis of protocols for high-performance computer networks. The goal of my work has been to develop scheduling, routing, and transport protocols that are highly efficient, robust, and capable of meeting the service requirements of traffic flows: unicast flows of messages from one (server) node to another (client) node, and multicast flows of messages from one server to a potentially large number of clients (as in content distribution systems). Toward this goal, the following principles guide my research:

• Building the design around integrated dynamic models which account for the time-dependent interaction among various control components (scheduling, routing, transport), as well as for the integration of various network technologies (wired and wireless).
• Building designs which employ innovative resource allocation techniques that are robust to delayed feedback information and dynamic, skewed traffic demands.

 

 

I summarize next my recent and ongoing research on routing, transport, and scheduling protocols, and related work on traffic and topology analysis. My work was in part supported by a National Science Foundation Advanced Networking Research CAREER award (1997-2001). My recent NSF Special Projects in Networking grant (2001-2005) provides continued support. On-line copies of my publications are at http://www.cs.bu.edu/cgi-bin/wingbibsearch?keyword=Matta. Associated software can be found at www.cs.bu.edu/fac/matta/software.html.