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Dr
Carey Williamson
Broadband Wireless Networks, Protocols,
Applications, and Performance
Dr Carey Williamson is an iCORE Professor
in Broadband Wireless Networks, Protocols,
Applications, and Performance. iCORE has
committed $350,000 per year for five years,
for a total of $1.75 million dollars to
establish this research program. Significant
industrial support for the research program
is anticipated.
Biographical
Information
Dr Carey Williamson is considered one
of the "rising stars" of computer networks
research. He is a well-respected member
of the ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGMETRICS
research communities, and has made significant
research contributions to computer networks
and performance evaluation and workload
characterization of web servers. He is
particularly noted for demonstrating the
usefulness of loss-load curves as a network
congestion control mechanism, and a unique
protocol supporting IP multicast for mobile
hosts. His strong publication record is
reflected in over 50 refereed publications
(conferences and journals), sixteen completed
graduate student theses and numerous technical
reports and software artifacts. He is
Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Chapter
of the IEEE North Saskatchewan Section,
and Secretary Treasurer of ACM SIGMETRICS.
Dr Williamson has also been voted "Professor
of the Year" by graduating Computer Science
undergraduate students four times. He
also won the Master Teacher award at the
University of Saskatchewan Fall Convocation
in October 2000. Dr Williamson joins the
University of Calgary from the Department
of Computer Science at the University
of Saskatchewan.
Research Program
Dr Williamson will define and carry out
a research program unifying wireless technologies
and the web, exploiting the full benefits
of each. The research program will be
applied in nature, with a strong focus
on experimental computer systems performance
research. The general goals of the research
program are: to identify performance problems
and bottlenecks in the design and operation
of protocols in wireless/web-based communications
systems; to propose and evaluate creative
solutions to these performance problems;
and to identify challenges and opportunities
for larger-scale deployment of wireless
web-based communications infrastructure.
Research Team
Dr Carey Williamson will lead a research
team of 8 to 10 people at the University
of Calgary.
Key collaborators will be:
Dr Rob Simmonds, University of Calgary
Dr Brian Unger, University of Calgary
Dr George Squires, TRLabs
Dr John Cleary, University of Waikato
in New Zealand
Dr Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Tech.
Industrial partnerships will be sought
with Calgary-based companies in the wireless
communications sector, for example Nortel
Networks. Hewlett Packard, IBM, AT&T;,
and Cisco are also considered to be possible
partners.
Related Links:
Dr Williamson's Homepage
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