Masters Theses Awarded
Ethan Frink
“In-Network FPGA-Based Acceleration of Cyclic Redundancy Checks for Large Scale File Transfers,” Spring 2026.
Jeet Bharatbhai Thakkar
“Designing an In-Memory S3 Metadata Cache to Accelerate S3 Operations,” Fall 2025.
Michael Poirier-Shelton
“The Effectiveness of Locating Arrays in Model Recovery,” Fall 2024.
Abhradeep Roy
“Transparent Integration of IoT devices in a 5G ORAN Network,” co-advised with Prof. Ahmed Alkhateeb, in EEE, ASU, Spring 2024.
Daniel J. Kulenkakmp
“Extending REACT to Support Quality of Service: Algorithms and Implementation, with Screening and Performance Experiments on a Wireless Testbed,” Spring 2021.
Stephen A. Seidel
“Locating Arrays: Construction, Analysis, and Robustness,” Fall 2018. (Winner outstanding CSE undergraduate award in Fall 2017.)
Matthew J. Mellott
“Smoothed Airtime Linear Tuning and Optimized REACT with Multi-hop Extensions,” Spring 2018.
Arjun Magge
“Fixed Verse Generation using Neural Word Embeddings,” Summer 2016.
Ray Robles
“Analysis and Design of Native File System Enhancements for Storage Class Memory,” Spring 2015.
Janakarajan Natarajan
“Analysis and Visualization of OpenFlow Rule Conflicts,” Co-advised with Prof. D. Huang, in CIDSE, ASU, Spring 2016.
Felipe Stall-Rechia
“An Evaluation of SDN Based Network Virtualization Techniques,” Spring 2016. (Felipe won an award to attend the FGRE GENI/FIRE Summit at iMinds in Ghent, Belgium in July 2015!)
Matthew Welch
“Performance Optimization of Linux Networking for Latency-Sensitive Virtual Systems,” Fall 2015.
Jinxuan Wu
“A Network Function Virtualization based Load Balancer for TCP,” Spring 2015.
Nicole Ang
“Generating Mixed-Level Covering Arrays with λ = 2 and Test Prioritization,” Spring 2015. (Nicole won an AFIO/SDSI scholarship!)
Ashkan Ghaffarinejad
“Comparing a Commercial and an SDN-Based Load Balancer in a Campus Network,” Spring 2015.
Jeremy Wright
“Topic Chains for Determining Risk of Unauthorized Information Transfer,” Fall 2014.
Eric Van Egmond
“Context-Aware Search Principles in Automated Learning Environments,” co-advised with Prof. W. Burleson, in CIDSE, ASU, Fall 2014.
Omid Alipourfard
“Infinite CacheFlow: A Rule-Caching Solution for Software Defined Networks,” Summer 2014.
Sai Vishnu K. Byhravajosyula
“A New Backoff Strategy using Topological Persistence in Wireless Networks,” Fall 2013.
Namrata Bapat
“Adapting Sensing and Transmission Times to Improve Secondary User Throughput,” Spring 2012.
Shiraz Saleem
“An On-Demand Energy-Aware Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks,” Spring 2010.
Supreet S. Nagi
“Test-Bed Validation of Physical Layer Modeling in Network Simulation,” Fall 2009.
Sanket Joshi
“A Shared Memory Approach for Invoking MATLAB Physical Layer Models from the ns-2 Network Simulator,” co-advised with Prof. Marco Janssen, School of Sustainability, ASU, Fall 2008.
Manasi Velhankar
“A Multi-Channel MAC Layer Protocol with Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for Ad Hoc Networks,” Spring 2007.
Bing Li
“An Evaluation of Contention and Scheduled MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Spring 2007.
Dmitri Lushnikov
“Rateless Forward Erasure Correction for Data Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Fall 2006.
Youngjin Kwon
“Analysis of Network Dynamics in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” Fall 2006.
Michael R. Van Milligan
“An Energy Efficient Topology Transparent Medium Access Control Protocol,” Summer 2006.
Kahkashan Shaukat
“Integrating OLSR into the MERIT Assessment Framework,” Fall 2005.
Sitaram Shah
“A Protocol Interaction Study using Design and Analysis of Experiments,” Fall 2004.
Minghao Cui
“Securing Dynamic Spectrum Use,” Summer 2004.
Satish Doraiswamy
“An Extended MERIT Framework for Assessment of MANET Routing Protocols,” Summer 2004.
Sruthi Yellamraju
“Erasure Codes as an Acknowledgement Scheme in Topology Transparent Scheduling,” Spring 2004.
Suresh Ramkumar
“Adaptive Bandwidth Utilization,” Fall 2003.
Amaresh Bikki
“Using Inverse Optimization to Model the Effect of Congestion on Routing Protocols in MANETs,” Summer 2002.
Priya Narayan
“Evaluation of MANET Routing Protocols using the MERIT Framework,” Spring 2002.