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My research interests are in the design, implementation, and evaluation of operating systems, distributed systems, and storage systems. Some research problems I am currently exploring are: (i) design of virtualization and operating systems mechanisms for managing performance, power consumption, and operational costs in large-scale computing/storage platforms, (ii) employing Flash memory to design next-generation enterprise-scale storage, and (iii) modeling and synthesis of workloads seen by modern/emerging server & high-performance applications. More details on my current and past research may be found in my publications. Also check out the CSL Web site.

CSL Research Wiki (internal access only).


Projects

The projects I am working on are described below.

  • River: Resource Management in Virtualized Environments
  • HoTMaP: Holistic Thermal Management and Power Capping for Green Data Centers
  • Enterprise-scale Storage Systems Employing Flash & Disks

    In the recent past I was involved with these projects.

  • DAWN: Directional Antenna Based Wi-Fi Networks
  • SHoP: Self-Managing Hosting Platforms
  • QLinux: Quality-of-Service Enhanced Linux


    Publications

    Click on this link for my papers.


    Software

  • Power Budget Enforcement for a PDU supplying power to a group of servers.
  • dirOPNET: Enhancements to OPNET to simulate WiFi (802.11b) networks with directional antennas.
  • Xen and Co.: Communication-aware CPU scheduling and accounting in Xen.
  • QLinux: QoS-enhanced Linux.


    Students

    I am working (or have worked) with the following wonderful students (some co-advised).

    Ph.D. students
  • Shiva Chaitanya: QoS/security trade-offs in storage systems.
  • Sriram Govindan: Power/resource management in data centers.
  • Youngjae Kim: Enterprise storage systems design using Flash memory.
  • Byung Chul Tak: Performance and manageability issues in virtualized systems.

    Post-docs
  • Jeong Hwan Choi
  • Euiseong Seo

    M.S. students
  • Aayush Gupta
  • Kanishk Jain