Research

Advisors
Dr. Kenneth L. Calvert (Associate Professor)
Dr. James Griffioen (Associate Professor)
Projects
The Activecast Project
Design and implementation of the Concast (many-to-one communication) network service
Implementation of applications (ex. audio/video merging) that use concast
Design and implementation of Reliable Multicast using existing multicast and concast network services
Design and implementation of secure Concast i.e. securing the Concast Signalling Protocol and provisioning Data Level Security. The Unify Project
Distributed Implementation of Backtracking using Unify
Quicksort applications for Unify
Bug tracking and enhancement of XUnify
Publications : Journal
  1. Scalable Routing for Large GT-ITM Graphs
    Aditya Namjoshi, Kenneth L. Calvert, Amit Sehgal.
    Submitted to CCR's Special Issue on Tools and Technologies for Networking Research and Education
  2. Leveraging Network Services to Scale Multimedia Applications.
    Kenneth L. Calvert, James Griffioen, Billy Mullins, Swaminathan Natarajan, Amit Sehgal, Su Wen
    To be published in Journal of Software Practice and Experience. 2003. (invited submission)
  3. Concast: Design and Implementation of an Active qNetwork Service.
    Kenneth L. Calvert, James Griffioen, Billy Mullins, Amit Sehgal, Su Wen
    IEEE Journal on Selected Area in Communication (JSAC), 2001.

Publications : Conference
  1. Design and Implementation of a Distributed Content Management System.
    Chuck Cranor, Rick Ethington, Amit Sehgal, David Shur, Cormac Sreenan, Kobus van der Merwe
    To be presented at the 13th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSDAV). Monterey, California. June 1-3, 2003.
  2. A Generic Set-Formation Service
    Amit Sehgal, Kenneth L. Calvert, James Griffioen
    Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming. April, 2003. San Francisco, California. IEEE Openarch
  3. A Flexible Concast-based Grouping Service
    Amit Sehgal, Kenneth L. Calvert, James Griffioen
    Fourth Annual International Working Conference on Active Networks. Dec 2002. ETH Technopark, Zurich, Switzerland.
  4. Towards Application-Friendly Active Network Services.
    Mary Bond, Kenneth L. Calvert, James Griffioen, Billy Mullins, Swaminathan Natarajan, Leon Poutievski, Amit Sehgal, Srinivasan Venkatraman and Su Wen, E. Zegura and Y. Chae.
    The proceedings of DARPA Active Networks Conference and Exposition (DANCE). June, 2002.
  5. Leveraging Emerging Network Services to Scale Multimedia Applications.
    K. Calvert, J. Griffioen, S. Natarajan, B. Mullins, L. Poutievski, A. Sehgal and S. Wen
    Proceedings of 2001 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks. Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. October, 2001.
  6. Building a Programmable Multiplexing Service using Concast.
    Kenneth Calvert, James Griffioen, Amit Sehgal and Su Wen.
    Proceedings of 2000 International Conference on Network Protocols, Osaka, Japan. November, 2000.
  7. Concast: Design and Implementation of a New Network Service.
    Kenneth L. Calvert, James Griffioen, Amit Sehgal and Su Wen
    International Conference for Network Protocols 1999, Toronto, Canada.
  8. Implementing a Concast Service.
    K. Calvert, J. Griffioen, B. Mullins, A. Sehgal, S. Wen.
    Allerton Conference 1999, Allerton, Illinois. OH.