Vijay Sivaraman Associate Professor School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia Office: Room 334 Telephone: +61 2 9385 6577 Fax: +61 2 9385 5993 E-mail: vijay at unsw dot edu dot au

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California at Los Angeles, March 2000.
• M.S., Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Dec 1995.
• B. Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, July 1994.

Professional History

• Jan 2012 - present: Associate Professor, UNSW.
• Jul 2005 - Dec 2011: Senior Lecturer, UNSW.
• Feb 2003 - Jun 2005: Senior Research Engineer, ICT Centre, CSIRO. Research in Optical Networking.
• May 2000 - Dec 2002: System Architect, Atoga Systems. Built intelligent integrated WDM switch-router for metropolitan area networks. Implemented QoS and MPLS mechanisms, routing protocols, spanning tree algorithms, forwarding plane architecture, etc.
• Jun 1997 - Mar 2000: Student Fellow, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. Conducted Ph.D. research in the analysis and implementation of packet scheduling mechanisms for high-speed switch-routers.

Research Projects

• Networks with Small (Optical) Buffers
• Dynamic Power Control in Body Area Networks
• Security in Wireless Sensor Networks
• Athlete Monitoring
• Participatory Sensor Networks for Pollution Monitoring

Book Chapters

1. V. Sivaraman, A. Dhamdhere, A. Burdett, "Power Management in Body Area Networks for Healthcare Applications", chapter in the book "Wireless Body Area Networks: Technology, Implementation and Applications", Pan Stanford Publishing, Dec 2011.
2. V. Sivaraman, A. Vishwanath, M. Thottan and C. Dovrolis, "Routers and Networks with Near-Zero Buffers", chapter in the book "Computer Science Research and the Internet", Nova Science Publishers, Q4 2011.
3. E. Perera, A. Seneviratne and V. Sivaraman, "Network Mobility", chapter 14 pages 417-441 in the book "Resource, Mobility, and Security Management in Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications", editors Y. Zhang, H. Hu and M. Fujise, Auerbach Publications, 2006.

Journal Publications

1. V. Sivaraman, Craig Russell, Iain B. Collings and Adam Radford, "Architecting a National Optical Fibre Open-Access Network: The Australian Challenge", IEEE Network Magazine, 26(4), to appear in Jul/Aug 2012.
2. J. Chen, R. Boreli and V. Sivaraman, "Improving the Eficiency of Anonymous Routing for MANETs", Computer Communications (Elsevier), 35(5):619-627, Mar 2012.
3. A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman and G. N. Rouskas, "Anomalous Loss Performance for Mixed Real-Time and TCP Traffic in Routers with Very Small Buffers", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 19(4):933-946, Aug 2011.
4. V. Sivaraman, D. Ostry, J. Shaheen, A. Hianto and S. Jha, "Broadcast Secrecy via Key-Chain Based Encryption in Single-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2011, article ID 695171, doi:10.1155/2011/695171.
5. R. Xiong, D. Taubman and V. Sivaraman, "Optimal PET Protection for Streaming Scalably Compressed Video Streams with Limited Retransmission Based on Incomplete Feedback", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 19(9):2382-2395, Sep 2010.
6. S. T. Ali, V. Sivaraman, D. Ostry and A. Dhamdhere, "Secure Key Loss Recovery for Network Broadcast in Single-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks", Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), 8(6):668-679, Aug 2010.
7. A. Vishwanath and V. Sivaraman "Sharing Small Optical Buffers Between Real-Time and TCP Traffic", Optical Switching and Networking (Elsevier), 6(4):289-296, Dec 2009.
8. A. Dhamdhere, V. Sivaraman and A. Burdett "Experiments in Adaptive Power Control for Truly Wearable Biomedical Sensor Devices", Journal of Communication and Computer (David Publishing), 6(11):34-42, Nov 2009.
9. V. Sivaraman, H. Elgindy, D. Moreland, and D. Ostry "Packet Pacing in Small Buffer Optical Packet Switched Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 17(4):1066-1079, Aug 2009.
10. A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman and M. Thottan "Perspectives on Router Buffer Sizing: Recent Results and Open Problems", ACM Computer Communications Review (CCR), 39(2):34-39, Apr 2009.
11. S. Xiao, A. Dhamdhere, V. Sivaraman, and A. Burdett "Transmission Power Control in Body Area Sensor Networks for Healthcare Monitoring", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Body Area Networking, 27(1):37-48, Jan 2009.
12. V. Sivaraman and A. Vishwanath "Hierarchical Time-Sliced Optical Burst Switching", Optical Switching and Networking (Elsevier), 6(1):37-43, Jan 2009.
13. V. Sivaraman, F. M. Chiussi, and M. Gerla "Deterministic End-to-End Delay Guarantees with Rate Controlled EDF Scheduling", Performance Evaluation, 63(4):509-519, May 2006.
14. E. Perera, V. Sivaraman, and A. Seneviratne, "Survey on Network Mobility Support", ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, 8(2):7-19, Apr 2004.
15. V. Sivaraman and G. N. Rouskas, "A Reservation Protocol for Broadcast WDM Networks and Stability Analysis", Computer Networks, 32(2):211-277, Feb 2000.
16. V. Sivaraman and F. M. Chiussi, "Statistical Analysis of Delay Bound Violations at an Earliest Deadline First (EDF) Scheduler", Performance Evaluation, 36(1):457-470, 1999.
17. J. M. Nolan, V. Sivaraman, C. D. Savage and P. K. Tiwari, "Graphical Basis Partitions", Graphs and Combinatorics, 14(3):241-261, 1998.
18. G. N. Rouskas and V. Sivaraman, "Packet Scheduling in Broadcast WDM Networks with Arbitrary Transceiver Tuning Latencies", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 5(3):359-370, June 1997.

Conference Papers

1. P. Riviriego, V. Sivaraman, Z. Zhao, J.A. Maestro, A. Vishwanath, A. Sanchez-Macian and C. Russell, "An Energy Consumption Model for Energy Efficient Ethernet Switches", International Workshop on Optimization Issues in Energy Efficient Distributed Systems (OPTIM 2012), Madrid, Spain, Jul 2012.
2. T. Kandappu, V. Sivaraman and R. Boreli, "A Novel Unbalanced Tree Structure for Low-Cost Authentication of Streaming Content on Mobile and Sensor Devices", IEEE SECON, Seoul, Korea, Jun 2012.
3. S. T. Ali, V. Sivaraman and D. Ostry, "Authentication of Lossy Data in Body-Sensor Networks for Healthcare Monitoring", IEEE SECON, Seoul, Korea, Jun 2012.
4. S. T. Ali, V. Sivaraman and D. Ostry, "Zero Reconciliation Secret Key Generation for Body-Worn Health Monitoring Devices", ACM Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSEC'12), Tucson, Arizona, USA, Apr 2012.
5. A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman and M. Thottan, "On the Energy-Efficiency of a Packet-Level FEC Based Bufferless Core Optical Network", OFC, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Mar 2012.
6. A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman, Z. Zhao, C. Russell and M. Thottan, "Adapting Router Buffers for Energy Efficiency", ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT, Tokyo, Japan, Dec 2011. NetFGPA source code
7. L. Yao, S. T. Ali, V. Sivaraman and D. Ostry, "Improving Secret Key Generation Performance for On-Body Devices", BodyNets, Beijing, China, Nov 2011.
8. U. Rathnayake, V. Sivaraman and R. Boreli, "Environmental Context Aware Trust in Mobile P2P Networks", IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN), Bonn, Germany, Oct 2011.
9. V. Sivaraman, A. Vishwanath, Z. Zhao and C. Russell, "Profiling Per-Packet and Per-Byte Power Consumption in the NetFPGA Gigabit Router", IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Green Communications and Networking (GCN), Shanghai, China, Apr 2011.
10. A. Vishwanath, Z. Zhao, V. Sivaraman and C. Russell "An Empirical Model of Power Consumption in the NetFPGA Gigabit Router", IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), Mumbai, India, Dec 2010.
11. S. T. Ali, V. Sivaraman and D. Ostry, "Secret Key Generation Rate vs. Reconciliation Cost using Wireless Channel Characteristics in Body Area Network", IEEE TrustCom, Hong Kong, Dec 2010.
12. J. Chen, R. Boreli and V. Sivaraman, "TARo: Trusted Anonymous Routing for MANETs", IEEE TrustCom, Hong Kong, Dec 2010.
13. V. Sivaraman, S. Grover, A. Kurusingal, A. Dhamdhere and A. Burdett, "Experimental Study of Mobility in the Soccer Field with Application to Real-Time Athlete Monitoring", IEEE WiMob, Niagara Falls, Canada, Oct 2010.
14. A. Dhamdhere, H. Chen, A. Kurusingal, V. Sivaraman and A. Burdett, "Experiments with Wireless Sensor Networks for Real-Time Athlete Monitoring", IEEE SenseApp, Denver, CO, USA, Oct 2010.
15. A. Kurusingal, A. Dhamdhere and V. Sivaraman, "Modeling Signal Strength of Body-Worn Devices", IEEE LCN, Denver, CO, USA, Oct 2010.
16. A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman, M. Thottan and C. Dovrolis, "Enabling a Bufferless Core Network Using Edge-to-Edge Packet-Level FEC", IEEE INFOCOM, San Diego, CA, USA, Mar 2010.
17. A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman and D. Ostry "How Poisson is TCP Traffic at Short Time-Scales in a Small Buffer Core Network?", IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), Delhi, India, Dec 2009.
18. S. T. Ali, V. Sivaraman and A. Dhamdhere, "A Per-Hop Security Scheme for Highly Dynamic Sensor Networks", IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security (WSNS), Macau, Oct 2009.
19. M. Ciesla, V. Sivaraman and A. Seneviratne, "URL Extraction on the NetFPGA Reference Router", NetFPGA Developers Workshop, Stanford University, CA, USA, Aug 2009.
20. Z. Rosberg, C. Russell and V. Sivaraman, "Rate and End-to-End Delay Control for Multicast and Unicast Flows", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dresden, Germany, Jun 2009.
21. A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman and G. Rouskas "Considerations for Sizing Buffers in Optical Packet Switched Networks", IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 2009.
22. A. Vishwanath and V. Sivaraman "Shared versus Dedicated Buffers for Real-Time Traffic in Optical Routers with Very Small Buffers", IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), Mumbai, India, Dec 2008.
23. Ashay Dhamdhere, Vijay Sivaraman, and Alison Burdett, "Experiments in Adaptive Power Control for Truly Wearable Biomedical Sensor Devices", International Workshop on Adaptation in Wireless Sensor Networks (AWSN), Sydney, Australia, Dec 2008.
24. Ashay Dhamdhere, Vijay Sivaraman, Vidit Mathur and Shuo Xiao, "Algorithms for Transmission Power Control in Biomedical Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Workshop on Wireless Network Algorithms (WiNA), Yilan, Taiwan, Dec 2008.
25. S. T. Ali, V. Sivaraman, A. Dhamdhere, D. Ostry, "A Key Loss Recovery Scheme for Secure Broadcasts in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Cannes, France, Sep 2008.
26. A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman and George Rouskas "Are Bigger Optical Buffers Necessarily Better?", IEEE Infocom Student Workshop, Phoenix, Arizona, Apr 2008.
27. A. Vishwanath and V. Sivaraman "Routers with Very Small Buffers: Anomalous Loss Performance for Mixed Real-Time and TCP Traffic", IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Enschede, Netherlands, Jun 2008.
28. S. Xiao, V. Sivaraman, A. Burdett, "Adapting Radio Transmit Power in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks", ACM BodyNets'08, Tempe, Arizona, Mar 2008.
29. H. Tan, S. Jha, D. Ostry, J. Zic, V. Sivaraman, "Secure Multi-Hop Network Programming with Multiple One-Way Hash Chains", ACM Conf. on Wireless Network Security (WiSec'08), Alexandria, Virginia, Mar-Apr 2008.
30. V. Sivaraman and A. Vishwanath "Architecture of a Hierarchical Time-Sliced Optical Burst Switching System", IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), Mumbai, India, Dec 2007.
31. B. Zhao, A. Vishwanath, V. Sivaraman "Performance of High-Speed TCP Applications in Networks with Very Small Buffers", IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), Mumbai, India, Dec 2007.
32. T. Pike, C. Russell, A. Krumm-Heller, V. Sivaraman, "IPv6 and Multicast Filtering for High-Performance Multimedia Applications", ATNAC, Christchurch, NZ, Dec 2007.
33. J. Shaheen, D. Ostry, V. Sivaraman, S. Jha, "Confidential and Secure Broadcast in Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Athens, Greece, Sep 2007.
34. S. Li, V. Sivaraman, A. Krumm-Heller, C. Russell, "A Dynamic Stateful Multicast Firewall", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, Scotland, Jun 2007.
35. G. Theagarajan, S. Ravichandran, V. Sivaraman, "An Experimental Study of Router Buffer Sizing for Mixed TCP and Real-Time Traffic", IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICoN) 2006, Singapore, Sep 2006.
36. V. Sivaraman, H. Elgindy, D. Moreland and D. Ostry, "Packet Pacing in Short Buffer Optical Packet Switched Networks", IEEE INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
37. A. Chalak, V. Sivaraman, N. Aydin, D. Turgut, "A Comparative Study of Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks", 13th International Conference on Telecommunications, Funchal, Portugal, May 2006.
38. V. Sivaraman, D. Moreland and D. Ostry, "A Novel Delay-Bounded Traffic Conditioner for Optical Edge Switches", IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Hong Kong, May 2005.
39. V. Sivaraman, D. Moreland and D. Ostry, "Ingress Traffic Conditioning in Slotted Optical Packet Switched Networks", ATNAC, Sydney, Dec 2004.
40. E. Perera, A. Seneviratne and V. Sivaraman, OptiNets: An Architecture to Enable Optimal Routing for Network Mobility, IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks (IWWAN), Oulu, Finland, May-Jun 2004.
41. V. Sivaraman, F. M. Chiussi and M. Gerla, "End-to-End Statistical Delay Service under GPS and EDF Scheduling: A Comparison Study", IEEE INFOCOM 2001, Anchorage, Alaska, April 2001.
42. V. Sivaraman, F. M. Chiussi and M. Gerla, "Traffic Shaping for End-to-End Delay Guarantees with EDF Scheduling", IEEE International Workshop on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS) 2000, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2000.
43. V. Sivaraman and F. M. Chiussi, "Providing End-to-End Statistical Delay Guarantees with Earliest Deadline First Scheduling and Per-Hop Traffic Shaping", IEEE INFOCOM 2000, Tel Aviv, Israel, April 2000.
44. V. Sivaraman and F. M. Chiussi, "End-to-End Statistical Delay Guarantees using Earliest Delay First (EDF) Packet Scheduling", IEEE GLOBECOM 1999, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug 1999.
45. F. M. Chiussi and V. Sivaraman, "Achieving High Utilization in Guaranteed Services Networks using Early-Deadline-First Scheduling", IEEE International Workshop on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS) 1998, Napa Valley, California, May 1998.
46. C. Fragouli, V. Sivaraman and M. B. Srivastava, "Controlled Multimedia Wireless Link Sharing via Enhanced Class-Based Queuing with Channel-State-Dependent Packet Scheduling", IEEE INFOCOM 1998, San Francisco, CA, April 1998.
47. V. Sivaraman and G. N. Rouskas, "HiPeR-l: A High Performance Reservation Protocol with Look-Ahead for Broadcast WDM Networks", IEEE INFOCOM 1997, Kobe, Japan, April 1997.
48. G. N. Rouskas and V. Sivaraman, "On the Design of Optimal TDM Schedules for Broadcast WDM Networks with Arbitrary Transceiver Tuning Latencies", IEEE INFOCOM 1996, San Francisco, CA, April 1996.

Patents

• "Method and Apparatus for Guaranteeing Data Transfer Rates and Delays in Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks using Pivot Sessions", F. M. Chiussi, A. Francini and V. Sivaraman, Lucent Technologies, U.S. Patent 6,904,045 granted Jun 2005.
• "Guaranteeing Data Transfer Delays in Data Packet Networks using Earliest Deadline First Packet Schedulers", F. M. Chiussi and V. Sivaraman, Lucent Technologies, U.S. Patent 6,532,213 granted Mar 2003.

Events

• Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks in Biomedicine sponsored by ARC ISSNIP and NICTA.

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