Interests
I am interested in the design of switches/routers, algorithmic issues in
networks, wide area software architectures extendible to arbitrary
services and (very recently) in applied artificial intelligence.
In the past, I have worked on QoS, computational geometry, databases and file
system
design.
MS Thesis
I have completed work on designing a generic control plane
architecture for edge devices between RSVP-enabled IP and ATM networks.
These control mechanisms will sit in the edge router or switch between the
two clouds. This design, along with some theoretical results on a series
of token buckets supporting guaranteed services form my MS
dissertation.
I have completed an implementation of such an edge device as a
low-bandwidth application-level switch on NT. The switch uses the generic
control plane architecture proposed in my thesis and a simple memoryless
token bucket in the data plane.
The theoretical results from my thesis are used in verifying the
correctness of the flow mappings used in the control plane of the switch.
Specifically, we state and prove a theorem governing a sequence of token
buckets providing end-to-end support for guaranteed service.
Patent
(pending) Managing Overflow of a Routing Forwarding Database
(with Michael Fine, Sanjay Subramanya @ Cisco Systems)
Publications
Control Plane Issues in Supporting RSVP-based
Services over ATM
( with Klara Nahrstedt ) submitted to IEEE GLOBECOMM
2000
Design, Implementation and Evaluation of
IntServ/ATM
Edge Device Architecture
( with Klara Nahrstedt ) submitted to IEEE INFOCOM
2000
QoS Translations and End-to-End Signaling Protocol
for RSVP over CBR/ATM
( with Yuxin Zhou, Klara Nahrstedt ) accepted to OPNETWORK99
An Edge Device
Architecture for Integrated Services in Heterogenous
Networks
M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer
Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 1999.
QUIN : QoS Unification in Incongruous Networks
( with Klara Nahrstedt, Roy Campbell, Whay Lee, Sreedhar Sivakumaran )
position paper
Past work
methods for enabling real time services in heterogeneous networks
(UIUC-Motorola collaboration) Here is a position paper on
this
work.
building a multi threaded record structured file system to provide
tuple-friendly
abstractions to database applications (with Kaushik Chakrabarti,
University of California, Irvine)
middleware for end-to-end QoS in distributed systems (with Burton Li , University of
Toronto).
Here is a report on this work.
developed ProTT 2.0, a protocol test tool at Hughes Network Systems.
developed an object oriented file system for the Shakti document
manager, Center for Software Development, BITS Pilani
worked on improving algorithms for classical computational geometry
problems, Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani
Mukul Chawla / chawla_mukul@yahoo.com / revised 3rd Dec 2000