Defense Presentation

Herath Bandara

Ph.D. Qualifying
July 09, 2009, 2.00pm
Engineering E103

Abstract:  This is a qualifying exam
1. Gopal Pandurangan, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Eli Upfal, "Building Low-Diameter Peer-to-Peer Networks," IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 21, no. 6, AUGUST 2003, pp. 995-
2. M. Al-Fares, A. Loukissas, and A. Vahdat, "A scalable, commodity, data center network architecture," In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Seattle, WA, Aug. 2008.

Adviser: Prof. Anura P. Jayasumana
Co-adviser:
Non-ECE member: Prof. V Chandrasekar, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Member3: Dr. Daniel F. Massey, Computer Science
Member4: Dr. Indrajit Ray, Computer Science
Additional member:

Publications to be Reviewed:

1. H. M. N. D. Bandara, A. P. Jayasumana, and T. H. Illangasekare, "Cluster tree based self organization of virtual sensor networks," In Proc. IEEE Globecom workshop on Wireless Mesh and Sensor Networks, New Orleans, Nov. 2008.
2. H. M. N. D. Bandara, A. P. Jayasumana, and I. Ray, "Key pre-distribution based secure backbone design for wireless sensor networks," In proc. 3rd IEEE Int. Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications (SenseApp), Montreal, Canada, Oct. 2008, pp. 786-793.
3. H. M. N. D. Bandara and A. P. Jayasumana, "An enhanced top-down cluster and cluster tree formation algorithm for wireless sensor networks," In Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS 2007), Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Aug. 2007, pp. 37-42.


Program of Study:

ECE 514 - Applications of Random Processes
ECE 521 - Satellite Communication
CS 557 - Advanced Networking
STAT 521 - Stochastic Processes I
BUS 620 - Leadership, Ethics, and Motivation
ECE 460 - Embedded Systems (MS)
ECE 554 - Computer Architecture (MS)
ECE 581 - Nanostructures: Fund & Apps (MS)
EE 658 Internet Engineering (MS)
ECE 699 - Thesis (MS)
CS 556 - Computer Security (MS)
CS 680 - Advanced Topics in Networking (MS)