netgroup @ UNL
Computer Science & Engineering
Faculty
Byrav Ramamurthy
Byrav Ramamurthy is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He is the author of the book “Design of Optical WDM Networks – LAN, MAN and WAN Architectures” and a co-author of the book “Secure Group Communications over Data Networks” published by Kluwer Academic Publishers/Springer in 2000 and 2004 respectively. He served as the Chair of the IEEE Communication Society’s Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC) during 2009-2011. He served as the IEEE INFOCOM 2011 TPC Co-Chair. He is currently an Editor-in-Chief for the Springer Photonic Network Communications (PNET) journal.
His research areas include optical and wireless networks, peer-to-peer networks for multimedia streaming, network security and telecommunications. His research work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, NASA, AT&T Corporation, Agilent Tech., Ciena, HP and OPNET Inc.
Graduate Students
Boyang Hu is a Ph.D. Student in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His current work is on the network softwarization and security at the Networks Research Group (NetGroup), under the supervision of Dr. Byrav Ramamurthy. His research interests include Software Defined Networks (SDN), Advanced Computer Networks, Network Security, and applications of Machine Learning in Optical Networks.
Sai Suman is a PhD student in the Computer Science and Engineering Dept. at UNL. He is from Hyderabad, a city in the south part of India. He works with Prof. Byrav Ramamurthy and his research interests are run-time optimization using dynamic programming and machine learning techniques in i) large-scale optical and multi-domain networks and ii) large data transfers.
Mohammad Majid is a graduate Computer Science and Mathematics major at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His research interest includes Elastic Optical Networks, Optical Network Simulators, and Machine Learning in Optical Networks.
Undergraduate Students
Lance Althouse is an undergraduate Software Engineering major at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. His research interests include Machine Learning and Peer-To-Peer streaming systems.
Former Members
Former Ph.D. Students
Shideh Yavary Mehr, Ph.D. (CE), 2022
Deepak Nadig Anantha, Ph.D. (CS), Summer 2021
Asst. Professor at Purdue University,
Application-awareness in Softwarized Networks: Building Intelligent Networks through Application and Network-layer Collaboration
Sara El Aloaui, Ph.D. (CS), Fall 2020
Routing Optimization in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks for Space and Mission-Driven Internet of Things (IoT) Environments
Xukai Zou, Ph.D. (CS), Fall 2000, (co-advised with Prof. Spyros Magliveras, FAU)
Secure Group Communications and Hierarchical Access Control
Xi Yang, Ph.D. (CS), Summer 2004
Efficient Design and Operation of Translucent Optical WDM Networks
Wang Yao, Ph.D. (CS), Summer 2005
Traffic Grooming in Next-Generation Optical WDM Mesh Networks
Mengke Li, Ph.D. (CS), December 2005
Cost-Efficient Design of Waveband Switching in Optical Wavelength Division Multiplexed Networks
Lu Shen, Ph.D. (CS), May 2006
Resource Allocation in Wavelength-Routed WDM Mesh Networks
Ajay Kumar Todimala, Ph.D. (CS), December 2006
Fault-tolerance using Shared Path Protection in Wavelength Division Multiplexing Optical Transport Networks
Yong Wang, Ph.D. (CS), December 2007
Key management protocols for Hybrid Wireless Sensor Networks
Yuyan Xue, Ph.D.(CE), Spring 2010 (co-advised with Prof. M. Can Vuran)
Service-Differentiated And Reliable Communication In Event-Based Wireless Sensor Networks
Miao Wang, Ph.D.(CS), Spring 2011 (co-advised with Prof.Lisong Xu)
Multi-Channel Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems as Resource Allocation Problems
Zhipeng Ouyang, Ph.D.(CS), Summer 2012 (co-advised with Prof.Lisong Xu)
On Heterogeneous User Demands In Peer-To-Peer Video Streaming Systems
Adrian Lara, Ph.D.(CS), Fall 2015
Using Software-Defined Networking to Improve Campus, Transport and Future Internet Architectures
Former M.S. (Thesis) Students
Lalita Kumawat, Fall 2021
Jong-Tae Lee, Spring 1999
Wavelength Converter Placement in Optical Networks
Ashok Ramakrishnan, Spring 2000
Virtual Topology Reconfiguration in Optical Networks
Srinath Yaragorla, Summer 2000
Sparse Regeneration in a Translucent Network
Ling Zhong, Spring 2000
Optimizing of Amplifier Placements in Switched Optical Networks
Shu Zhang, Spring 2001
Dynamic traffic grooming for reconfigurable WDM networks
Lu Shen, Spring 2002
Signaling Schemes for in GMPLS-based WDM Mesh Networks
Kalpana Ganesan, Spring 2003
P-Lambda Scheduler for WDM Optical Packet Switching
Ajay Kumar Todimala, Spring 2003
Fault-Tolerance in Optical WDM Mesh Networks
Siva Sunkavalli, Summer 2003
Scatternet Formation in Bluetooth Networks
Ravi Balachandran, Fall 2004
Secure Group Communication over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Garhan Attebury, Summer 2006
Federated Network Management through Attribute Access Control
Pratheeswaran Angu, Summer 2011
Offline Optimization of Advance Reservation over Dynamic Networks
Lin Liu, Fall 2011
Distributed Algorithms for Energy Savings in the Core Network
Joyeeta Mukherjee, Summer 2012
Routing Over The Interplanetary Internet
Santiago Gimenez Ocano, Spring 2015
Remote Mobile Screen (RMS): An approach for secure BYOD environments
Sara El Alaoui, Fall 2015
Routing Optimization in Interplanetary Networks
Former M.S. (Project) Students
Xuehong Gan, Spring 1999
A Prototype of a Web Server Clustering System
Qingyuan Lou, Fall 1999
Sparse Multicasting Simulator for Optical Networks
Xingchun Chen, Spring 2000
IP Multicast Experiments in a Campus Network
Chandrakant Yemparala, Summer 2000
Integrated Simulation Environment for SIMON
Gautam Rao, Spring 2000
Application Level Differentiated Services for Web Servers
Elie Sawma, Fall 2000
Connection Management in Optical Networks
Sree Rama Nomula, Fall 2000
ARTHUR: An RWA Tool for Optical Networks
Mir Hussain Ali, Fall 2001
Static vs. Dynamic Routing in WDM Networks
Aditya Srinivasa Ivaturi, Summer 2002
Transcoding Proxy for Wireless Web
Lai Lim, Summer 2002
Challenges in deploying Access Grid at UNL
Mohan Krishna Chirumamilla, Fall 2002
An Intrusion Detection System for Wireless LANs
Jun Li, Spring 2003
Integrated Distributed Simulation using Visual SIMON
Daneal Tesse Fekersillassie, Spring 2003
Design of a Sensor Network for Irrigation Management
Vaidehi Ajit Kasarekar, Fall 2003
Distributed Intrusion Detection for Wireless LANs
Sarang Deshpande, Spring 2004
A Scalable Scheme for Secure Dynamic Conferencing
Mukesh Babu Raghuraman, Summer 2004
Implementation of a system for the visually impaired
Bhavana Lekkala, Summer 2004
Waveband Routing with Non-uniform Wavebands
Ashok Janardhanan, Summer 2004
Implementation of a Secure Group Communication Protocol
Srikanth Anumalla, Summer 2004
Groundwater Monitoring using Smart Sensors
John Hodges, Fall 2007
Wireless Mesh Networking: A Solution for Broadband Access
Jagannath Ghoshal, Fall 2007 (Co-advised with Prof. L. Xu)
Neighbor-Selection in Live Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming Networks
Srikanth Mallu, Spring 2008 (Co-advisor: Prof. Vuran)
A Secure Group Key Management (SGKM) Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
Vaidhehi Lakshmiraman, Summer 2008
Joint Scheduling in a Lambda Grid Network
Anusha Ravula, Spring 2010
A Tabu Search Approach for Joint Scheduling of Resources in a Lambda Grid Network
Mukesh Subedee, Summer 2010
Co-scheduling of Resources in a Lambda Grid/Cloud Environment
Anisha Kolasani, Summer 2012
Dynamic Network Traffic Isolation Through OpenFlow
Steven Becker, Fall 2012
Experiments On Video Streaming Over Computer Networks
Saichand Palusa, Fall 2014
The Interplanetary Internet implemented on GENI Testbed
Sonith Raveendran Poyyeri, Summer 2015
Healthcare Intervention using Mobile phones and Google Cloud Messaging