Deep Medhi: Students

PhD Dissertations completed

• Mainul Mamun, Advanced Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing Systems with Cyclic Prefix-Less Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output Discrete Fourier Transform Spreading and Un-manned Aerial Vehicles-Assisted Cyclic Post-fixed Windowed Schemes, July 2023. Current Affiliation: Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO.

• Fathima James, Security Management of Smart Home Internet-Of-Things: A Framework, Finite-State Attack Modeling, And Worst Attack Vulnerability Analysis, May 2023. Current Affiliation: Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology, Boston, MA.

• Sheyda Kiani Mehr, Video Streaming Quality of Experience (QoE): In-network Cache Prefetching and Moving QoE Models, May 2021. Current Affiliation: Ericsson, San Jose, CA.

• Rohit Abhishek, Resilience and Survivability of 5G Networks, February 2020. Current Affiliation: AT&T, Atlanta, GA.

• Mirza Mohd Shahriar Maswood, Cost Optimization and Load Balancing of Intra And Inter Data Center Networks to Facilitate Cloud Services, September 2018. Current Affiliation: Associate Professor, Khula University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh.

• Shuai Zhao, Application-Aware Network Design Using Software- Defined Networking for Application performance Optimization for Big Data and Video Streaming, graduation: September 2017. Current Affiliation: Intel, Santa Clara, CA. 

• Parikshit Juluri, Measurement and Improvement of Quality-of-Experience for Online Video Streaming Services, graduation: July 2015. Current Affiliation: AWS, Boston, MA. 

• Xuan Liu, Optimal Standby Virtual Routers Selection for Node Failures in a Virtualized Network Environment, graduation: July 2015. Current Affiliation: AT&T Labs–Research, Bedminster, NJ. 

• Haiyang Qian, Data Center Resource Management with Temporal Dynamic Workload, graduation: May 2012. Current Affiliation: Nexusera, China. 

• Iyad Katib, IP/MPLS over OTN over DWDM Multilayer Networks: Optimization Models, Algorithms, and Analyses, graduation: May 2011. Current Affiliation: Professor  and Dean, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

• Plarent Tirana, May 2010. Dissertation Title: The Effects of Distribution Algorithms and Congestion Avoidance Techniques on Application Response Time in the IMS Architecture. Current Affiliation: Vice President, Global Field Engineering, RapidSOS, Reston, VA. 

• Gaurav Agrawal, Lightpath Topology Configuration for Wavelength-routed IP/MPLS Networks in a Multi-Layered Environment: Integrated Models, Algorithms, and Analysis, Ph.D., July 2007. Current Affiliation: IP Infusion, San Jose, California. 

• Amit Sinha,  Methodologies and Analyses of Broadband Access Network Traffic, Ph.D., July 2007. Current Affiliation: Canada Revenue Agency, Canada (started at Cisco Systems). 

• Balaji Krithikaivasan, Forecasting Models and Adaptive Quantized Bandwidth Provisioning for Nonstationary Network Traffic, Ph.D., May 2006. (deceased)

• Dijiang Huang, Many-to-many Secure Group Communication and Its Applications, Ph.D., December 2004. Joined as Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Now tenured Associate Professor.

• Shekhar Srivastava, Models and Algorithms for Effective Traffic Engineering of Label-based Backbone Networks, Ph.D., December 2004. Current affiliation: Verizon, Boston, MA. 

• Robert Cotter, Network and Protocol Design for Survivable Wide-Area ATM-based Virtual Networks, Ph.D., December 1999. Retired as Associate Teaching Professor, CSEE Department, UMKC.

Visiting Ph.D. students (from other institutions) 

1. Francesca Fossati, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.

2. Dallal Belabed, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.

3. Line Yasmin Becerra Sanchez, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana-Medellín, Colombia.

4. Catarina Francisco, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

MS Theses 

1. Deepthi Basavapatna Narayana Swamy, Study of QoE for DASH at Sub-representational Level, December 2017. Current Affiliation: Apple, CA.

2. Goutham Muppala, Improving QoE of Video Streaming using Network Awareness, December, 2016. Current Affiliation: Cisco Systems, CA.

3. Amarnath Beedimane Hanumantharaya, Reduction of Power and Virtual Machine migration Inside a Cloud Datacenter, December 2016. Current Affiliation: Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC.

4. Swatesh Pakhare, Velocity: A NetFlow Based Optimized Geo-IP Lookup Tool, July 2016.

5. Matthew Owens, Temporal Bandwidth-Intensive Virtual Network Allocation Optimization in Data Centers, August, 2014. Current Affiliation: DST Systems, Kansas City, Missouri.

6. Raghunandan Sridhar, Traffic Engineering for LISP-enabled Networks, May 2013. Current Affiliation: Oracle, MA.

7. Sudhir Mohanraj, A Study of Network for Multi Hour Objectives under Splittable and Non Splittable Flow Conditions, May 2012. Current Affiliation: Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO. Chockalingam Eswaramurthy, SiDR: A Secure Inter-Domain Routing Protocol, August 2011. Current Affiliation: NetApp,Wichita, KS.

8. Venkata Jamithireddy, Socio-Cultural Communication System - A communication Mechanism For Multi-Media Information Access System for Non-Literate and Linguistically Diverse Users, December 2010. Current Affiliation: Charter Communication, St. Louis, MO.

9. Prashant Sunkari, InfoKiosk: An Information Kiosk With Text-Free User Interface, December 2010. Current Affiliation: Ericsson, Dallas, TX.

10. Ramkumar Cherukuri, Integration of Virtual Routing Platform in the Great Plains Environment for Network Innovation, August 2010. Current Affiliation: Cox Communications, Atlanta, GA.

11. Ambreen Haleem, Evaluation OF VoIP Overhead in a UMTS Network, December 2008. Current Affiliation: TeleNav, San Francisco Bay Area, CA.

12. Deepali Paknikar, Suggg: Web Search Application based on Information Foraging and Berrypicking Theory, M.S., December 2006. Current Affiliation: Microsoft, Redmond, WA.

13. Mike Schreiber, Performance Analysis of Disk Scheduling Mechanisms with Long-Range Dependent Access Request, M.S., December 2006 (co-advisor). Current Affiliation: DST Systems, Kansas City, MO.

14. Chandra Sekhar Surapaneni, Dynamically Organized and Scalable Virtual Organizations in Grid Computing , M.S., February 2006. Current Affiliation: PhoneFactor, Overland Park, Kansas.

15. Deepti Agarwal, Roaming Decisions: Presentation Models for Smart Devices in a Decision Support System, M.S., December 2005. Current Affiliation: OmniComm Systems, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. 

16. Tian Li, Virtual Route: An Analysis to Ensure Resource Availability For Critical Services In A Dynamic Routing Environment, M.S., May 2005. Current Affiliation: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA.

17. Iyad Katib, Wavelength Converter Placement in Wavelength-Routed All-Optical Networks: A Heuristic Algorithm and A Comparative Analysis of Benefits of Wavelength Conversion Gain Against Fixed and Alternate Routing, M.S., December 2004. Continuing as a doctoral student. 

18. Gaurav Sharma, Hash chain based authentication and accounting for fast handoffs in wireless LANs, M.S., May 2004. Current Affiliation: CA Technologies, Los Angeles, CA. 

19. Venkatachalam Mani Venkatesh, Evaluation of the benefits of traffic engineering through constraint-based routing and network controls, M.S., July 2002. Current Affiliation: Oppenheimer Funds, NY. 

20. Ameya Pandit, Limiting Insider Attacks on Routers in an AS running Link State Routing Protocol, M.S., December 2001. Current Affiliation: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA. 

21. Karthik Venkataraman, A Framework for 911 service in a PBX LAN, M.S., December 2001. Current Affiliation: Trabon Solutions, Kansas City, Missouri. 

22. Mark Hieber, Analysis of physical failures on a packet-switched network in a multi-level environment, M.S., July 2001. Current Affiliation: Assistant Teaching Professor, CSEE Department, UMKC. 

23. Shankare Gowda, Protocol Extensions For Cryptography Based Survivable Critical Services, M.S., July 2001. Current Affiliation: Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, Kansas. 

24. Tapasvi Kaza, Application Performance and System Impact over DOCSIS Networks in a Lossy System, M.S., August 2001. Current Affiliation: Sybase, Washington, D.C. 

25. Loren Rard, Impact of Triggered Update in a Qos-Based Dynamic Routing Environment with Network Path Caching, M.S., May 2001. Current Affiliation: CenturyTel, Overland Park, Kansas. 

26. Jane Zupan, Alarm Management in a Multi-Layered Network Management Environment, M.S., May 2001. Current Affiliation: Nuxeo, Boston, MA. 

27. Kaushik Deka, Predictive Bandwidth Provisioning from Temporal Network Measurements, M.S., December 2000. (Awarded Best MS Thesis at UMKC). Current Affiliation: Witness Systems, Boston, MA. 

28. Vamsidhar Valluri, A New Multi-Constraint Multicast Routing Algorithm and its Performance, M.S., December 2000. Current Affiliation: Ericsson, San Jose, California. 

29. Douglas Hawley, H.323 and H.323 Annex C: the study, design, implementation and management of a mission critical H.323 compliant real-time video capable network, M.S., May 2000. Current Affiliation: Nucor Steel, St. Joseph, MO. 

30. Aekkachai Rattanadilokochai, QoS Routing with Inaccurate Link-State Information, M.S., May 2000. Current Affiliation: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA.

31. Jai Katikineni, Loosely coupled Source Routing in RSVP Enabled Networks: Protocol Enhancement and Proof of Concept of Implementation, M.S., October 1999. Current Affiliation: Manhattan Associates, Atlanta, GA. 

32. Ulka Ranadive, Effect of Network Dynamics on TCP: Observations and Possible Solutions, M.S., August 1999. Current Affiliation: Cisco Systems, Boston, MA. 

33. Joshi Sivasankar, A Study on Dynamic Traffic in a QoS Routing Environment, M.S., August 1999. Last Known/Current Affiliation: Hughes Network Systems, Germantown, Maryland. 

34. Shishir Ramam, Multicast Routing with Reservation in Wide-Area Networks, M.S., August 1999. Current Affiliation: Quality Paradigm (co-founder), San Jose, California. 

35. Shankar Subramaniam, Performance of Dynamic Quality of Service Routing under the Influence of Link Failures, M.S., July 1999. Current Affiliation: Motorola, Schaumburg, IL. 

36. Mukunda Saddi, Network Management System with User Network/Provider Network Paradigm for Multi-Layered Survivable Networks : IP based Implementation, M.S., August 1999. Current Affiliation: On-Ramp Wireless, San Diego, CA. 

37. Deepa Shenoy, A Network Management Framework for Multiple Layer Survivable Networks: Protocol Development and Implementation, M.S., May 1999. Current Affiliation: SurveyMunkey (started at Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA).

38. Sanjay Jain, Design and Implementation of Management Components for Multi-Layered Survivable Networks, M.S., May 1999. Current Affiliation: BNSF, Ft. Worth, TX. 

39. Suresh Muppala, Network Performance under Failure in the presence of RSVP-based Multicast Services, M.S., May 1999. Current Affiliation: VMWare, CA. 

40. Gerald Rogers, Analysis of Multicast and Priority based Routing Algorithms with Physical Failures in a Packet Switched Networking Environment, M.S., July 1998. Current Affiliation: Intel, Phoenix, AZ. 

41. Richard Beyer, On Location Area Sizing and Dynamic Updating due to Paging in Wireless Networks: Modeling and Analysis, M.S., July 1998. Last Known/Current Affiliation: Army Corp of Engineers, Kansas City. 

42. Aanand Ramachandran, On Restoration in ATM Networks and Measurements in a Testbed, M.S., June 1998. Current Affiliation: Microsoft, Hyderabad, India. 

43. Laks Venkataraman, A Study of the Generic Connection Admission Control and Dynamic Routing Schemes in Private-Network-to-Network (PNNI) Environment, M.S., May 1998. Current Affiliation: Cisco Systems, Bangalore, India. 

44. Serge Panossian, A Conceptual Architecture for Enhanced 911 Emergency Service for IP Telephony, M.S., December 1997. Current Affiliation: Bloomberg LP, New York. 

45. Rohit S. Kalbag, Distributed Architecture for Wireless PCS Networks (DAWN): Operational Requirements and Benefits, M.S., May 1997. Awarded CST best MS thesis award, 1996-97.; Current Affiliation: Verizon Wireless, New Jersey. 

46. Samir Shah, Multicast Omnitraffic Routing Networks (MORN): Effects of Multicast Traffic and Physical Failures on Network Performance, M.S., May 1997. Last Affiliation: Cisco, San Jose, California. (now deceased).

47. Chia-Ting Lu, Dimensioning and Computational Results for Wide-Area Broadband Networks with Two-Level Dynamic Routing, M.S., December 1996. 

48. Zahid Abbasi, An Approach to Secure Billing and Authorization for the FTP Service, M.S., Dec 1996. Current Affiliation: Fannie Mae, Washington, DC. 

49. Indrajanti (Yanti) Sukiman, A Study on the Interaction between Admission Control and Dynamic Routing in Multi-Service Broadband Networks, M.S., May 1996. Awarded CST best MS thesis award, 1995-96. Current Affiliation: Cisco Systems, San Jose, California. 

50. Ram Nuthi, Host Migration Transparency: An Implementation in Mobile Networking, M.S., September 1995. Current Affiliation: Dade Behring, Delaware. 

51. Robert Cotter, Configuration Management in SONET-based Telecommunications Networks, M.S., June 1995. Current Affiliation: Assistant Teaching Professor, UMKC. 

52. Jueren Zhou, Experience with a Decomposition Algorithm for Solving A Multi-hour Computer Communication Network Design Problem with Multi-Path Routing, M.S., June 1995. Current Affiliation: Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, KS. 

53. Sanjiv Jadhav, Intelligent Network Architecture Features to Support Service Management, M.S., May 1995. Current Affiliation: Clearwire, Reston, VA. 

54. Tony Trehan , Design and Implementation of Industrial Communication Gateways, M.S., April 1995. Last Known Affiliation: Arcom Control Systems, Kansas City, Missouri. 

55. Sailesh Davuluri, Admission Control and Overload Performance in a Single-Rate Multi-Service Loss Network with Dynamic Routing, M.S., February 1995. Current Affiliation: MySpace.com, San Jose, CA. 

56. Rajeev Khurana, Optimization and Performance Analysis of Network Restoration Schemes for Teletraffic Networks, M.S., August 1994. Current Affiliation: Cisco Systems, San Jose, California. 

57. Amit Agrawal, Design And Performance Evaluation Of A New Fast Packet Switch, M.S., 1994 (co-advisor). Current Affiliation: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA. 

58. Karthikeyan Ramasamy, A Network Specification Language and Associated Tools, M.S., December 1993. Current Affiliation: Locomatix, CA (co-Founder). 

59. Sujit Guptan, Network Dimensioning, Flow Control and Routing in an Integrated Multi-Rate Circuit-Switched Network, M.S., August 1993. Current affiliation: Lore Software (co-founder), Bangalore, India. 

60. Venkat R. Menakuru, Analysis of Facility Network Restoration, M.S., December 1992. Current Affiliation: IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York. 

61. Senthil Sankarappan, Impact of Trunk Group Diversity on the Performance of Dynamic Routing Teletraffic Networks under a Transmission Link Failure, M.S., July 1992. Current Affiliation: Extreme Networks, San Jose, CA.

Honorary member: Saravan Rajendran (Currently Vice President, NSX Advanced Load Balancer / AVI Networks, VMware). Saravan was my first Graduate Research Assistant. Although he didn't do thesis with me, he has/deserves a special space. 

Undergraduate Research Students

1. Mitch Rappard

2. Shaun Walker

3. Sean Korzdorfer

4. Tim Sylvester

5. Gabe Holiway

6. Cody Hill

7. Riddhiman Das

8. Zach Alholm

9. Ian Ramsey

10. Robert Fines

11. Adam Pullen

12. Matt Owens

13. Eric Gonzalez

14. Kelsey Leftwich

15. Beca May

16. Caylin Hartshorn

17. Waleed Al-Shaikhli

and then there's Steve Dispensa who showed up at my office when he was a sophomore  and wanted to take my graduate-level course on computer networking (which I let him do).

To my former students: if any information isn't current, please update me with your current information. 

Over the years, I've had students from many places around the world such as Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Dominica, Egypt, Jordan, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, and of course, US.