Vijay Sivaraman Senior Lecturer School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia Office: Room 334 Telephone: +61 2 9385 6577 Fax: +61 2 9385 5993 E-mail: vijay at unsw dot edu dot au

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California at Los Angeles, March 2000.
• M.S., Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Dec 1995.
• B. Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, July 1994.

Professional History

• Jul 2005 - present: Senior Lecturer, UNSW.
• Feb 2003 - Jun 2005: Senior Research Engineer, ICT Centre, CSIRO. Research in Optical Networking.
• May 2000 - Dec 2002: System Architect, Atoga Systems. Built intelligent integrated WDM switch-router for metropolitan area networks. Implemented QoS and MPLS mechanisms, routing protocols, spanning tree algorithms, forwarding plane architecture, etc.
• Jun 1997 - Mar 2000: Student Fellow, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. Conducted Ph.D. research in the analysis and implementation of packet scheduling mechanisms for high-speed switch-routers.

Research Projects

• Networks with Small (Optical) Buffers
• Dynamic Power Control in Body Area Networks
• Security in Wireless Sensor Networks
• Athlete Monitoring

Book Chapters

1. E. Perera, A. Seneviratne and V. Sivaraman, "Network Mobility", chapter 14 in the book "Resource, Mobility, and Security Management in Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications", editors Y. Zhang, H. Hu and M. Fujise, Auerbach Publications, 2006.

Journal Publications

1. S. T. Ali, V. Sivaraman, D. Ostry and A. Dhamdhere, "Secure Key Loss Recovery for Network Broadcast in Single Hop Wireless Sensor Networks", Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), to appear in 2010.
2. A. Vishwanath and V. Sivaraman "Sharing Small Optical Buffers Between Real-Time and TCP Traffic", Optical Switching and Networking (Elsevier), 6(4):289-296, Dec 2009.
3. A. Dhamdhere, V. Sivaraman and A. Burdett "Experiments in Adaptive Power Control for Truly Wearable Biomedical Sensor Devices", Journal of Communication and Computer (David Publishing), 6(11):34-42, Nov 2009.
4. V. Sivaraman, H. Elgindy, D. Moreland, and D. Ostry "Packet Pacing in Small Buffer Optical Packet Switched Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 17(4):1066-1079, Aug 2009.
5. A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman and M. Thottan "Perspectives on Router Buffer Sizing: Recent Results and Open Problems", ACM Computer Communications Review (CCR), 39(2):34-39, Apr 2009.
6. S. Xiao, A. Dhamdhere, V. Sivaraman, and A. Burdett "Transmission Power Control in Body Area Sensor Networks for Healthcare Monitoring", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Body Area Networking, 27(1):37-48, Jan 2009.
7. V. Sivaraman and A. Vishwanath "Hierarchical Time-Sliced Optical Burst Switching", Optical Switching and Networking (Elsevier), 6(1):37-43, Jan 2009.
8. V. Sivaraman, F. M. Chiussi, and M. Gerla "Deterministic End-to-End Delay Guarantees with Rate Controlled EDF Scheduling", Performance Evaluation, 63(4):509-519, May 2006.
9. E. Perera, V. Sivaraman, and A. Seneviratne, "Survey on Network Mobility Support", ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, 8(2):7-19, Apr 2004.
10. V. Sivaraman and G. N. Rouskas, "A Reservation Protocol for Broadcast WDM Networks and Stability Analysis", Computer Networks, 32(2):211-277, Feb 2000.
11. V. Sivaraman and F. M. Chiussi, "Statistical Analysis of Delay Bound Violations at an Earliest Deadline First (EDF) Scheduler", Performance Evaluation, 36(1):457-470, 1999.
12. J. M. Nolan, V. Sivaraman, C. D. Savage and P. K. Tiwari, "Graphical Basis Partitions", Graphs and Combinatorics, 14(3):241-261, 1998.
13. G. N. Rouskas and V. Sivaraman, "Packet Scheduling in Broadcast WDM Networks with Arbitrary Transceiver Tuning Latencies", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 5(3):359-370, June 1997.

Conference Papers

1. A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman, M. Thottan and C. Dovrolis, "Enabling a Bufferless Core Network Using Edge-to-Edge Packet-Level FEC", IEEE INFOCOM, San Diego, CA, USA, Mar 2010.
2. A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman and D. Ostry "How Poisson is TCP Traffic at Short Time-Scales in a Small Buffer Core Network?", IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), Delhi, India, Dec 2009.
3. S. T. Ali, V. Sivaraman and A. Dhamdhere, "A Per-Hop Security Scheme for Highly Dynamic Sensor Networks", IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security (WSNS), Macau, Oct 2009.
4. M. Ciesla, V. Sivaraman and A. Seneviratne, "URL Extraction on the NetFPGA Reference Router", NetFPGA Developers Workshop, Stanford University, CA, USA, Aug 2009.
5. Z. Rosberg, C. Russell and V. Sivaraman, "Rate and End-to-End Delay Control for Multicast and Unicast Flows", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dresden, Germany, Jun 2009.
6. A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman and G. Rouskas "Considerations for Sizing Buffers in Optical Packet Switched Networks", IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 2009.
7. A. Vishwanath and V. Sivaraman "Shared versus Dedicated Buffers for Real-Time Traffic in Optical Routers with Very Small Buffers", IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), Mumbai, India, Dec 2008.
8. Ashay Dhamdhere, Vijay Sivaraman, and Alison Burdett, "Experiments in Adaptive Power Control for Truly Wearable Biomedical Sensor Devices", International Workshop on Adaptation in Wireless Sensor Networks (AWSN), Sydney, Australia, Dec 2008.
9. Ashay Dhamdhere, Vijay Sivaraman, Vidit Mathur and Shuo Xiao, "Algorithms for Transmission Power Control in Biomedical Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Workshop on Wireless Network Algorithms (WiNA), Yilan, Taiwan, Dec 2008.
10. S. T. Ali, V. Sivaraman, A. Dhamdhere, D. Ostry, "A Key Loss Recovery Scheme for Secure Broadcasts in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Cannes, France, Sep 2008.
11. A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman and George Rouskas "Are Bigger Optical Buffers Necessarily Better?", IEEE Infocom Student Workshop, Phoenix, Arizona, Apr 2008.
12. A. Vishwanath and V. Sivaraman "Routers with Very Small Buffers: Anomalous Loss Performance for Mixed Real-Time and TCP Traffic", IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Enschede, Netherlands, Jun 2008.
13. S. Xiao, V. Sivaraman, A. Burdett, "Adapting Radio Transmit Power in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks", ACM BodyNets'08, Tempe, Arizona, Mar 2008.
14. H. Tan, S. Jha, D. Ostry, J. Zic, V. Sivaraman, "Secure Multi-Hop Network Programming with Multiple One-Way Hash Chains", ACM Conf. on Wireless Network Security (WiSec'08), Alexandria, Virginia, Mar-Apr 2008.
15. V. Sivaraman and A. Vishwanath "Architecture of a Hierarchical Time-Sliced Optical Burst Switching System", IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), Mumbai, India, Dec 2007.
16. B. Zhao, A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman "Performance of High-Speed TCP Applications in Networks with Very Small Buffers", IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), Mumbai, India, Dec 2007.
17. T. Pike, C. Russell, A. Krumm-Heller, V. Sivaraman, "IPv6 and Multicast Filtering for High-Performance Multimedia Applications", ATNAC, Christchurch, NZ, Dec 2007.
18. J. Shaheen, D. Ostry, V. Sivaraman, S. Jha, "Confidential and Secure Broadcast in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Athens, Greece, Sep 2007.
19. S. Li, V. Sivaraman, A. Krumm-Heller, C. Russell, "A Dynamic Stateful Multicast Firewall", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, Scotland, Jun 2007.
20. G. Theagarajan, S. Ravichandran, V. Sivaraman, "An Experimental Study of Router Buffer Sizing for Mixed TCP and Real-Time Traffic", IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICoN) 2006, Singapore, Sep 2006.
21. V. Sivaraman, H. Elgindy, D. Moreland and D. Ostry, "Packet Pacing in Short Buffer Optical Packet Switched Networks", IEEE INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
22. A. Chalak, V. Sivaraman, N. Aydin, D. Turgut, "A Comparative Study of Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks", 13th International Conference on Telecommunications, Funchal, Portugal, May 2006.
23. V. Sivaraman, D. Moreland and D. Ostry, "A Novel Delay-Bounded Traffic Conditioner for Optical Edge Switches", IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Hong Kong, May 2005.
24. V. Sivaraman, D. Moreland and D. Ostry, "Ingress Traffic Conditioning in Slotted Optical Packet Switched Networks", ATNAC, Sydney, Dec 2004.
25. V. Sivaraman, F. M. Chiussi and M. Gerla, "End-to-End Statistical Delay Service under GPS and EDF Scheduling: A Comparison Study", IEEE INFOCOM 2001, Anchorage, Alaska, April 2001.
26. V. Sivaraman, F. M. Chiussi and M. Gerla, "Traffic Shaping for End-to-End Delay Guarantees with EDF Scheduling", IEEE International Workshop on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS) 2000, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2000.
27. V. Sivaraman and F. M. Chiussi, "Providing End-to-End Statistical Delay Guarantees with Earliest Deadline First Scheduling and Per-Hop Traffic Shaping", IEEE INFOCOM 2000, Tel Aviv, Israel, April 2000.
28. V. Sivaraman and F. M. Chiussi, "End-to-End Statistical Delay Guarantees using Earliest Delay First (EDF) Packet Scheduling", IEEE GLOBECOM 1999, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug 1999.
29. F. M. Chiussi and V. Sivaraman, "Achieving High Utilization in Guaranteed Services Networks using Early-Deadline-First Scheduling", IEEE International Workshop on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS) 1998, Napa Valley, California, May 1998.
30. C. Fragouli, V. Sivaraman and M. B. Srivastava, "Controlled Multimedia Wireless Link Sharing via Enhanced Class-Based Queuing with Channel-State-Dependent Packet Scheduling", IEEE INFOCOM 1998, San Francisco, CA, April 1998.
31. V. Sivaraman and G. N. Rouskas, "HiPeR-l: A High Performance Reservation Protocol with Look-Ahead for Broadcast WDM Networks", IEEE INFOCOM 1997, Kobe, Japan, April 1997.
32. G. N. Rouskas and V. Sivaraman, "On the Design of Optimal TDM Schedules for Broadcast WDM Networks with Arbitrary Transceiver Tuning Latencies", IEEE INFOCOM 1996, San Francisco, CA, April 1996.

Patents

• "Method and Apparatus for Guaranteeing Data Transfer Rates and Delays in Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks using Pivot Sessions", F. M. Chiussi, A. Francini and V. Sivaraman, Lucent Technologies, U.S. Patent 6,904,045 granted Jun 2005.
• "Guaranteeing Data Transfer Delays in Data Packet Networks using Earliest Deadline First Packet Schedulers", F. M. Chiussi and V. Sivaraman, Lucent Technologies, U.S. Patent 6,532,213 granted Mar 2003.

Events

• Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks in Biomedicine sponsored by ARC ISSNIP and NICTA.