Shiva Chaitanya, CSE Ph.D. Student, Granted a U.S. Patent

Shiva Chaitanya, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Penn State, has been granted a U.S. Patent for "System and Method for Optimizing Storage Utilization."  The abstract of the patent states the following "In a storage area network, the storage pool is the principal component that determines the storage quality of service in the network.  The proposed system's goal is to balance the utilizations of the storage pools using a suitable metric (e.g., standard deviation).  The utilization of the storage pool:  the disks and the storage systems.  This system then gathers performance information about all the storage pools and applies the described method to determine a sequence of resource-reallocations so that a well-balanced utilization of pools is achieved."  Shiva conceived this idea as part of a summer internship (2007) with IBM Almaden.    The other inventors are Karan Gupta, Madhukar Korupolu, and Prasenjit Sarkar.  Click here to view the patent document.

Shiva's doctoral thesis is on storage security and focuses on mitigating the performance impact of security techniques in storage systems.

Shiva is part of the Computer Systems Lab at CSE.  He is co-advised by Anand Sivasubramaniam and Bhuvan Urgaonkar.

Congratulations!