Professor Rejaie Awarded New NSF Grant, IEEE and ACM Senior Membership
The team will use the grant as part of a broad effort in the ION P2P project to improve understanding of peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, which have become very popular in network applications such as the BitTorrent file distribution program and Skype Internet telephony service. The first year of the project will be dedicated to developing and verifying unbiased sampling techniques for gathering measurements and developing a session-level P2P simulator. The second year of the project will leverage these new tools and techniques to gather extensive measurements from real systems for the development of useful models of P2P system behavior. The third year of the project will use a mixture of simulation and additional measurements to conduct root-cause analysis and investigate the design implications of the findings.
The acceptance rate of the proposals in the Networking program at NSF has been 10% or less in recent years.
Prof. Rejaie joined the Department of Computer and Information Science in September 2002. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Southern California (USC) in 1996 and 1999 respectively. He completed his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1991. His research interests include P2P networking, multimedia networking and network measurement.
In recognition of his professional standing, Prof. Rejaie recently became a Senior members of both ACM and IEEE.