DEEP MEDHI
Professor
Computer Science & Electrical Engineering (CSEE) Department
School of Computing and Engineering
University of Missouri - Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499 USA

Voice:+1.816 235-2006 (or 2996, lab)
Fax: + 1 816-235-5159
Email: dmedhiATumkcDOTedu

Education
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Membership
Teaching / Students
Prospective Students
Networking / Telecom Research Lab at UMKC
MISC

 
Students Graduated
PhD Dissertations
  • Gaurav Agrawal, Lightpath Topology Configuration for Wavelength-routed IP/MPLS Networks in a Multi-Layered Environment: Integrated Models, Algorithms, and Analysis, Ph.D., July 2007. Joined IP Infusion, San Jose, California.
  • Amit Sinha, Methodologies and Analyses of Broadband Access Network Traffic, Ph.D., July 2007. Joined Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA.
  • Balaji Krithikaivasan, Forecasting Models and Adaptive Quantized Bandwidth Provisioning for Nonstationary Network Traffic, Ph.D., May 2006. (deceased)
  • Dijiang Huang, Many-to-many Secure Group Communication and Its Applications, Ph.D., December 2004. Joined as Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
  • Shekhar Srivastava, Models and Algorithms for Effective Traffic Engineering of Label-based Backbone Networks, Ph.D., December 2004. ((Honorable Mention, INFORMS Telecommunications Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2006) Went as Post-doctoral researcher, INRS-EMT/University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada. Current affiliation: Network Engineer, Schema, Inc., New Jersey.
  • Robert Cotter, Network and Protocol Design for Survivable Wide-Area ATM-based Virtual Networks, Ph.D., December 1999. Currently: Visiting Assistant Professor, CSEE Department, UMKC.
MS Theses
  1. Deepali Paknikar, Suggg: Web Search Application based on Information Foraging and Berrypicking Theory, M.S., December 2006. Current Affiliation: Microsoft, Redmond, WA.
  2. Mike Schreiber, Performance Analysis of Disk Scheduling Mechanisms with Long-Range Dependent Access Request, M.S., December 2006: Current Affiliation: UMKC Information Services. (co-advisor).
  3. Chandra Sekhar Surapaneni, Dynamically Organized and Scalable Virtual Organizations in Grid Computing , M.S., February 2006. Current Affiliation: Positive Networks, Overland Park, Kansas.
  4. Deepti Agarwal, Roaming Decisions: Presentation Models for Smart Devices in a Decision Support System, M.S., December 2005. Current Affiliation: OmniComm Systems, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
  5. Tian Li, Virtual Route: An Analysis to Ensure Resource Availability For Critical Services In A Dynamic Routing Environment, M.S., May 2005. Current Affiliation: Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, CA.
  6. Iyad Katib, Wavelength Converter Placement in Wavelength-Routed All-Optical Networks: A Heuristic Algorithm and A Comparative Analysis of Benefits of Wavelength Conversion Gain Against Fixed and Alternate Routing, M.S., December 2004. Continuing as a doctoral student.
  7. Gaurav Sharma, Hash chain based authentication and accounting for fast handoffs in wireless LANs, M.S., May 2004.
  8. Venkatachalam Mani Venkatesh, Evaluation of the benefits of traffic engineering through constraint-based routing and network controls, M.S., July 2002. Current Affiliation: Cactus Software, Overland Park, KS.
  9. Ameya Pandit, Limiting Insider Attacks on Routers in an AS running Link State Routing Protocol, M.S., December 2001. Current Affiliation: Qualcomm, San Diego, CA.
  10. Karthik Venkataraman, A Framework for 911 service in a PBX LAN, M.S., December 2001. Current Affiliation: Trabon Solutions, Kansas City, Missouri.
  11. Mark Hieber, Analysis of physical failures on a packet-switched network in a multi-level environment, M.S., July 2001. Current Affiliation: Lecturer, CSEE Department, UMKC.
  12. Shankare Gowda, Protocol Extensions For Cryptography Based Survivable Critical Services, M.S., July 2001. Current Affiliation: Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, Kansas.
  13. Tapasvi Kaza, Application Performance and System Impact over DOCSIS Networks in a Lossy System, M.S., August 2001. Current Affiliation: Intelsat, Washington, DC.
  14. Loren Rard, Impact of Triggered Update in a Qos-Based Dynamic Routing Environment with Network Path Caching, M.S., May 2001. Current Affiliation: Sprint Corporation.
  15. Jane Zupan, Alarm Management in a Multi-Layered Network Management Environment, M.S., May 2001. Current Affiliation: Mega, Paris, France.
  16. Kaushik Deka, Predictive Bandwidth Provisioning from Temporal Network Measurements, M.S., December 2000. (Awarded Best MS Thesis at UMKC). Current Affiliation: Demos Solutions, Boston, MA.
  17. Vamsidhar Valluri, A New Multi-Constraint Multicast Routing Algorithm and its Performance, M.S., December 2000. Current Affiliation: Redback Networks, San Jose, California.
  18. Douglas Hawley, H.323 and H.323 Annex C: the study, design, implementation and management of a mission critical H.323 compliant real-time video capable network, M.S., May 2000. Current Affiliation: Associate Professor of Computer Science, William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri.
  19. Aekkachai Rattanadilokochai, QoS Routing with Inaccurate Link-State Information, M.S., May 2000. Current Affiliation: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA.
  20. Ulka Ranadive, Effect of Network Dynamics on TCP: Observations and Possible Solutions, M.S., August 1999. Current Affiliation: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA.
  21. Joshi Sivasankar, A Study on Dynamic Traffic in a QoS Routing Environment, M.S., August 1999. Last Known/Current Affiliation: Hughes Network Systems, Germantown, Maryland.
  22. Shishir Ramam, Multicast Routing with Reservation in Wide-Area Networks, M.S., August 1999. Current Affiliation: Sliver Peak Systems, Mountain View, CA.
  23. Shankar Subramaniam, Performance of Dynamic Quality of Service Routing under the Influence of Link Failures, M.S., July 1999. Current Affiliation: Motorola, Schaumburg, IL.
  24. Mukunda Saddi, Network Management System with User Network/Provider Network Paradigm for Multi-Layered Survivable Networks : IP based Implementation, M.S., August 1999. Current Affiliation: NextWave Wireless, San Diego, CA.
  25. Deepa Shenoy, A Network Management Framework for Multiple Layer Survivable Networks: Protocol Development and Implementation, M.S., May 1999. Current Affiliation: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA.
  26. Sanjay Jain, Design and Implementation of Management Components for Multi-Layered Survivable Networks, M.S., May 1999. Current Affiliation: BNSF, Ft. Worth, TX.
  27. Suresh Muppala, Network Performance under Failure in the presence of RSVP-based Multicast Services, M.S., May 1999. Current Affiliation: Packeteer, Cupertino, CA.
  28. Gerald Rogers, Analysis of Multicast and Priority based Routing Algorithms with Physical Failures in a Packet Switched Networking Environment, M.S., July 1998. Current Affiliation: Intel, Raleigh-Durham, NC.
  29. Richard Beyer, On Location Area Sizing and Dynamic Updating due to Paging in Wireless Networks: Modeling and Analysis, M.S., July 1998. Last Known/Current Affiliation: Army Corp of Engineers, Kansas City.
  30. Aanand Ramachandran, On Restoration in ATM Networks and Measurements in a Testbed, M.S., June 1998. Current Affiliation: Microsoft, Hyderabad, India.
  31. Laks Venkataraman, A Study of the Generic Connection Admission Control and Dynamic Routing Schemes in Private-Network-to-Network (PNNI) Environment, M.S., May 1998. Current Affiliation: Cisco Systems, Bangalore, India.
  32. Serge Panossian, A Conceptual Architecture for Enhanced 911 Emergency Service for IP Telephony, M.S., December 1997. Current Affiliation: Lucent Technologies, New Jersey.
  33. Rohit S. Kalbag, Distributed Architecture for Wireless PCS Networks (DAWN): Operational Requirements and Benefits, M.S., May 1997. Awarded CST best MS thesis award, 1996-97.; Current Affiliation: Verizon Wireless, New Jersey.
  34. Samir Shah, Multicast Omnitraffic Routing Networks (MORN): Effects of Multicast Traffic and Physical Failures on Network Performance, M.S., May 1997. Current Affiliation: Cisco, San Jose, California.
  35. Chia-Ting Lu, Dimensioning and Computational Results for Wide-Area Broadband Networks with Two-Level Dynamic Routing, M.S., December 1996.
  36. Zahid Abbasi, An Approach to Secure Billing and Authorization for the FTP Service, M.S., Dec 1996. Last Known Affiliation: Sprint, Overland Park, KS.
  37. Indrajanti (Yanti) Sukiman, A Study on the Interaction between Admission Control and Dynamic Routing in Multi-Service Broadband Networks, M.S., May 1996. Awarded CST best MS thesis award, 1995-96. Current Affiliation: Cisco Systems, San Jose, California.
  38. Ram Nuthi, Host Migration Transparency: An Implementation in Mobile Networking, M.S., September 1995. Current Affiliation: Dade Behring, Delaware.
  39. Robert Cotter, Configuration Management in SONET-based Telecommunications Networks, M.S., June 1995. Current Affiliation: Visiting Assistant Professor, UMKC.
  40. Jueren Zhou, Experience with a Decomposition Algorithm for Solving A Multi-hour Computer Communication Network Design Problem with Multi-Path Routing, M.S., June 1995. Current Affiliation: Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, KS.
  41. Sanjiv Jadhav, Intelligent Network Architecture Features to Support Service Management, M.S., May 1995. Current Affiliation: Mahindra-British Telecom, Mumbai, India.
  42. Tony Trehan , Design and Implementation of Industrial Communication Gateways, M.S., April 1995. Last Known Affiliation: Arcom Control Systems, Kansas City, Missouri.
  43. Sailesh Davuluri, Admission Control and Overload Performance in a Single-Rate Multi-Service Loss Network with Dynamic Routing, M.S., February 1995. Last Known Affiliation: America On-line(AOL), California.
  44. Rajeev Khurana, Optimization and Performance Analysis of Network Restoration Schemes for Teletraffic Networks, M.S., August 1994. Awarded CST best MS thesis award, 1994-1995; UMKC MS thesis Certificate of Merit, 1994-1995. Current Affiliation: Orative, San Jose, California.
  45. Karthikeyan Ramasamy, A Network Specification Language and Associated Tools, M.S., December 1993. Current Affiliation: Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, California.
  46. Sujit Guptan, Network Dimensioning, Flow Control and Routing in an Integrated Multi-Rate Circuit-Switched Network, M.S., August 1993. Last known affiliation: Net Effect Systems, CA.
  47. Venkat R. Menakuru, Analysis of Facility Network Restoration, M.S., December 1992. Affiliation (last known): IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York.
  48. Senthil Sankarappan, Impact of Trunk Group Diversity on the Performance of Dynamic Routing Teletraffic Networks under a Transmission Link Failure, M.S., July 1992. Current Affiliation: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA.

Honorary member: Saravan Rajendran (Currently at Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA). Saravan was my first Graduate Research Assistant. Although he didn't do thesis with me, he has/deserves a special space.

To my former students: if any information isn't current, please update me with your current information.

Over the years, I've had students in my courses from many places around the world such as Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, Jordan, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, US.

Hodianu Ki, Ring Etar Baat!