Krishna Kant
Office phone:
(215) 204-9654
Email: kkant@temple.edu
Home page: http://www.kkant.net
Krishna
Kant is an IEEE fellow and currently a professor in Computer and Information
Science Department, Temple University. He is also the director of the Temple
site of CRIS (Center for research in intelligent storage), which is an NSF
supported IUCRC (Industry-University Cooperative Research Center. The center is
a part of 3-site IUCRC, the other two being at Univ of Minnesota, Minneapolis
and University of Texas A&M. Prior to joining Temple in 2014, he was a
program director at the National Science
Foundation and carries a combined 39 years of experience in industry,
academia and government.
Education:
Ph.D. in Computer Science,
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (1981)
M.S. in Electrical
Communication Eng., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1977)
B.Tech. in Electrical
Eng., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (1975)
Current
Research Interests: Short range magnetic
communications, Communications for Disasters, Storage Systems, Configuration
and Energy Management in data centers, Sharing in Multiparty Systems, Security
and robustness in cyberphysical systems, Edge
computing systems.
Other
Expertise: Mathematical performance
modeling, Telecommunication systems, Internet protocols and technologies, data
center design issues, emerging nonvolatile memory technologies, Domain name
system (DNS and DNS-SEC) robustness, Traffic characterization and congestion
control, Low-level hardware architectural design and modeling, Hardware
acceleration technologies, Peer to Peer computing.
Professional Experience: Assistant and then tenured Associate Professor
of computer science (1981-1991 – Northwestern & Penn State Univ.), R&D
in telecommunications industry (1991-1997, Bellcore),
R&D in computer industry (1997-2008, Intel), Funding agency program manager
(2008 - April 2010, NSF), Research professor (April 2010 – present, George
Mason Univ.), Funding agency program manager (2010 –2013, NSF). Professor
(2014-, Temple University). For details, see below.
Recent Educational Initiatives:
Involved since 2009 in curriculum development in parallel and
distributed computing area under the sponsorship of IEEE TCPP (technical
committee on parallel processing). Also involved with biannual competitions
since 2011 to collect & evaluate early adopter feedback. I also received
IEEE TCPP certificate for outstanding contributions for 2011 in this
connection. Paper #112 articulates the
need for a standardized curriculum in the parallel and distributed systems
area:
Recently Funded Grants:
1. Designing
Infrastructure to Probe Distributed System Configurations, NSF $300,000, April 2020-2022.
2. Coordinated
Network QoS for Remote NVM Protocols (NVMe-oF and PM-oF), Intel
Corp, $200,000, July 2018-2020.
3. Exploring
Magnetic Communications for Challenging Environments, NSF, $110,000, CNS- 1844944, Sept 1, 2018-Feb 28, 2022.
4. Magnetic
Induction Based Communications for Fresh Food Distribution Monitoring, NSF, $150,000, CNS- 1744187, Aug 1, 2017 – July 31, 2019.
5. Industry
support for I/UCRC (See #4) in form of memberships: HP Enterprise Storage $250,000
(2015-19), Dell/EMC $150,000
(2016-18), Salesforce $25,000 (2017), Huawei $125,000 (2017-19).
6. CPS: Breakthrough: Collaborative
Research: Securing Smart Grid by Understanding Communications Infrastructure
Dependencies,
NSF, $245,000, CNS-1544904, Oct 2015 – Sept 2018, Collaborative with MST), Role: Lead PI
7.
CSR:
Small: Collaborative Research: Multi-party Collaborative Data Access, NSF, CNS-1527346, $358,894, Oct
2015- Sept 2018 (Collaborative with UNC/Charlotte), Role: Lead PI
8. INSPIRE: Exploiting Cross-Disciplinary
Synergies for Efficient Perishable Commodity and Information Distribution, NSF, CNS-1542839, $200,000, July
2015 – June 2017, Role:
Lead PI
9. Shadowing - An adaptive, Power-Aware
Resiliency Framework for Exascale Computing, DoE, ASCR- 0000216300, $210,000,
July 2015 – July 2018,
(Collaborative with U/Pitt), Role: Temple PI
10. BDD: Dynamic Evolution of Smart-Phone
Based Emergency Communications Network, NSF, CNS-1461932, $299,999, June 2015 –
April 2018, Role:
Lead PI
11. Collaborative Research: A
Multi-University I/UCRC Phase II Center on Intelligent Storage, NSF, IIP-1439672, $325,000, Sept 2014
– Aug 2019, (Collaborative w/ U/Minn and Texas
A&M) , Role:
Lead PI
Older Grants (While at Intel Corp):
Patents:
1.
US Patent no 5487072, An
Error Monitoring Algorithm for Broadband Signaling Networks, Jan 23, 1996.
2.
US Patent no 5563874, Error monitoring
algorithm for broadband signaling (a variant of original algorithm), Oct 8,
1996.
3.
US patent no 7027460, Method and system
for customized television viewing using a peer-to-peer network, April 11, 2006.
4.
US patent no 7885914, Systems, methods
and apparatuses for rank coordination, Feb 08, 2011
5.
US patent no 7392257, Incorporating structural information into an
extensible markup language document, June 24, 2008.
Editorial board: Sustainable Computing Journal (SUSCOM).
Honors and Awards:
1.
I was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2014 his contributions to
enterprise server performance, power management technologies, and domain name
system robustness.
2.
In Oct 2012, I was invited
to present a retrospect on a paper that I published in ICCD (International
Conference on Computer Design) 2002, which was among the five most impactful papers in 30 years of ICCD history.
3.
I
received NSF director’s award for
2012 for my work on NSF wide sustainability program called SEES (Science,
Engineering and Education for Sustainability), which is the highest award
given in NSF.
4.
I
also several certificates of appreciation including IEEE TCPP certificate for contributions to the development of
parallel/distributed processing curriculum.
Tutorials Given at Major Conferences:
1.
Collaborative
Sharing of Cloud Hosted Structured Data, 8th IEEE/ACM
International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2015), Limassol,
Cyprus. See http://cyprusconferences.org/ucc2015/?page_id=1211
2.
Sustainability and Energy Efficiency in Data Centers Design and
Operation Design of Sustainable Data Centers,
Given at High performance computing architecture (HPCA) conference in 2012 (New
Orleans, LA), See http://www.ece.lsu.edu/hpca-18/. Also given at International supercomputing conference in 2012
(Hamburg, Germany).
3.
Power/Thermal Challenges in Data Centers, Given at Super-Computing Conference in 2009 (Portland, OR). See http://sc09.supercomputing.org/?pg=tutorials.html
4.
Surviving Large Scale Internet Outages, Given at Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) Conference in
2007 (Edinburgh, UK), See http://2007.dsn.org/fullProgram.htm. Also given at International Conferences on Distributed Systems
and Networks (ICDCN) in 2009 in Hyderabad, India.
5.
Building
Scalable Ad-hoc Collaboration Networks, Given at Global Communications
Conference (GLOBECOM) in 2003 in San Francisco, CA, See http://globecom2003.ieee-globecom.org/
Books and Book Chapters Published:
Software Tools Developed:
1.
LMPOWER, a comprehensive
tool for detailed studies on power management of memory and interconnect in SMP
system. Developed while at Intel, use extensively in many projects.
2.
Geist (Generator of
e-commerce and internet traffic), Developed while at Intel and open sourced,
Available at http://www.kkant.net/geist
3.
SimP2 (Tool for evaluating
performance of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks), Developed at Intel.
4.
DCLUE (Database cluster
emulator) as tool for studying database cluster performance. Developed at
Intel, Available at http://www.kkant.net/DCLUE
5.
DNSViz – a tool for visualization of DNS misconfiguration, developed at
Sandia Labs by Casey Deccio based on his Ph.D. work
with me while I was at GMU/NSF.
Available at http://dnsviz.net/
Workshops Organized:
1. US-India Program for Exploratory Experiences for Researchers and
Students (PEERS), w/ Sukumar Ghosh and Sajal Das), Jan 2009, IIIT Hyderabad,
India.
2. NSF workshop on Science of Power Management, http://scipm.cs.vt.edu/ (w/ Kirk Cameron & Kirk Pruhs), April 2009, Arlington VA.
3. NSF-IUSSTF Workshop on Distributed Infrastructure for Security
Monitoring and Intelligence Extraction Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
9-13 January 2010. (see book #5, which resulted from this workshop.) (http://nsl.cse.unt.edu/~dantu/cae/e/Infrasec_2010_Bangalore.pdf)
4. NSF-EU workshop on Future Directions in
Pervasive Computing and Social Networking for Emerging Applications, (w/ Mohan
Kumar and Sajal Das), Percom 2010, Manheim, Germany,
March 2010
5. US-India Pervasive Computing,
Communication and Collaboration, (w/ Sajal Das, Jim Kurose, Huzur Saran), March
2011, New Delhi & June 2102 Arlington, VA.
(These workshop resulted in an US-India funding program in pervasive
computing.)
6. Secure Cloud Computing, (w/ Sushil Jajodia), George Mason University, March 2013. (See edited
book #8, which resulted from this workshop).
7. Role of Distributed Coordination in
Resilient & Fine-Grain Control of Power Grids, 8th CMU
Electricity Symposium, (w/ Marja Ilic), https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~electriconf/2013/index.html, Feb 2014.
Other Professional Activities:
Conferences: Service in many conference program committees
including Comsnet 2020, ICDCS 2020, DBsec 2017, Resilience week 2015-19, ICPP 2016, Safeconfig 2016-17, Networking 2016-2019, IPDPS 2016,
Infocom 2010-2016, ICPP 2015, ICDCS 2013, WWW 2013, QEST 2013, ICCCN 2012, ICPP
2012, CCGrid 2011-12, Buildsys
2012, ICDCN 2012-2009, ICPP 2012, etc. I am currently PC co-chair of ICPP 2016,
workshop chair for ICNP 2015, and PC chair for Resilience week 2015. I was PC
co-chair for Safeconfig 2014, CCW 2014, and general
co-chair for SustainIT 2015. I was the track
vice-chair of ICDCS 2013, and program chair of DCperf
2013. I was the general chair of ICCCN 2012.
Invited
talks/Panels: I recently gave a keynote at
2020 IEEE Cloud summit titled “Configuration Management and Diagnosis in
Multi-tenant Systems”. At MASS 2019, I presented an invited paper titled “Storage
on the Edge: Evaluating Cloud Backed Edge Storage in Cyberphysical
Systems”. At 2019 ACM Sigmetrics CINS workshop, I
gave an invited talk titled “Advanced Persistent Threats in Autonomous
Driving”. At Globecom 2018 workshop on
collaborative intelligence, I gave a keynote titled “Collaborative
Intelligence Challenges in Edge Computing”. At ICCCN 2017, I participated
in a panel titled “The Age of IoT”. At ICCCN 2016, I participated in a
panel titled “Big Data and Clouds”.
At ICCCN 2015, I organized and moderated a panel on Cyber-Physical Clouds: Risks and Challenges. At Infocom 2014 I
organized and moderated a panel on Networking
Challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems. At ICDCS 2013 I organized a panel on
Security, Privacy and Trust in Internet of Things. I participated in a panel
at ICCCN 2013 in Nassau, Bahamas on Data Center Networks. I participated
in a panel at PERCOM 2013 in San Diego, CA on the topic of Machine to
Machine communications in Disaster Response. I organized a panel on Security
and Privacy in the Age of Big Data at CollaborateCom
conference in Pittsburgh, PA, Oct 2012. I gave a keynote on sustainable
computing International Green Computing Conference (IGCC), June 2013 in
Arlington, VA. I gave a keynote on Energy Adaptation in Smart Infrastructure
at SMART 2012 conference held in Stuttgart, Germany in Aug 2012. In April 2015,
I gave an invited talk at IMDEA Network Institute in Madrid, Spain on “Energy
Adaptive Disaster Recovery Network Using WiFi
Tethering”, and presented an invited paper at ICCCN 2015 on “Collaborative
Heterogeneous Sensing: An Application to Contamination Detection in Water
Distribution Networks” in Aug 2015. At ICCCN 2016, I
presented an invited paper on “IP address reconfiguration and consolidation
in enterprise networks”.
I have also served on
numerous review panels for National Science Foundation, Department of Energy
and Hong Kong Graduate Research forum. I have also participated and organized
NSF panels and workshops while serving as a NSF program director (2008-2013).
Guest
Editing: I have been also involved with guest editing of several special
issues or special sections of Journals. Recent guest editing included IEEE
Transactions on Industry Applications (IAS) Special Issue on Security,
Reliability, Privacy, and Quality in Industrial Automation and Control, IEEE
Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS) Special Issue on
Deep Learning Models for Safe and Secure Intelligent Transportation Systems,
IEEE Sensors Journal Special issue on Advanced Sensing and Sensor Fusion for
Intelligent Transportation Systems. I also guest edited a special section on
computational sustainability in IEEE transactions on emerging topics in
computing (www.computer.org/portal/web/tetc), and a special section on
pervasive computing sustainability in PMC journal
(www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15741192/9/1). I have also been involved
with several edited books as listed above under Books published.
Recent Advising -- Ph.D.
1.
Pavana Pradeep, Thesis
area: Resource and Conflict Management in Edge Computing systems, Fall
2018, ongoing.
2.
Rajpreet Gulati, Temple
University, Thesis Area: Magnetic Induction based communications for
Challenging Environments, Starting date: Fall 2017, Status: ongoing.
3.
Jit Gupta, Thesis Area: Achieving
Deterministic Latency in Storage systems, Fall 2018, ongoing.
4.
Lu Pang, Temple
University, Thesis Area: Data Driven Storage Hierarchy Management,
Starting date: Fall 2017, Status: ongoing.
5.
Joyanta Biswas, Temple
University, Thesis Area: QoS management in remote data center storage,
Starting date: Fall 2016, Status: ongoing
6.
Tanaya Roy, Temple
University, Thesis Area: QoS
Management in Emerging Storage Technologies, Starting date: Fall 2016,
Status: ongoing
7.
Sanjeev Sondur, Temple
University, Thesis area: Data Center
Configuration and Energy Management, Role: Supervisor, Starting date: Fall 2014,
Status: completed summer 2020, Now with Oracle corp.
8.
Madhurima Ray, Temple
University. Thesis area: Software Defined
Energy Management in Storage Systems, Role: Supervisor, Starting date: Fall
2015, Status: Completed Dec 2019. Now with Intel corp.
9.
Anis Alazzawe, Temple
University. Thesis area: Resilience in
High Performance Computing Systems, Role: Supervisor, Starting date: Summer
2015, Status: Completed Aug 2019.
10.
Dusan Ramljak, Temple
University, Thesis area: Managing and Exploiting provenance in storage
systems, Fall 2015, Completed May 2019, Now with University of Texas.
11.
Ibrahim El-Shekil, Temple University, Thesis area: Quality of Configuration in Large-Scale Data
Centers, Role: Supervisor, Starting date: Fall 2014, Status: completed Dec
2018. Now with Metropolitan State University, St. Paul.
12.
Malek Athamnah, Temple
University, Thesis area: Access Control
in Collaborative Databases, Role: Supervisor, Starting date: Summer 2014,
Status: Completed Sept 2018, Now postdoc at UPenn.
13.
Mayank Raj (2015), Missouri
University of Science and Technology, Thesis area: Energy Adaptation for Mobile Devices, Role: Co-advisor, Starting
date: Fall 2011, (Now with IBM).
14.
Muthu Murugan (2014),
University of Minnesota, Thesis area: Energy
Adaptation in Data Centers, Role: Co-advisor, Starting date: Fall 2010,
Status: completed. (Now with HPE).
15.
Meixing Le (2013), George
Mason University, Thesis area: Secure
Collaboration in Multi-Cloud Environments, Role: Co-advisor, Starting date:
Fall 2010, Status: completed. (Now with Cisco).
16.
Gim Jongmin (2012), Hanyang
University, South Korea, Thesis area: Modeling
of Emerging NVRAM Technologies, Role: Co-advisor, Starting date: Fall 2009,
Status: completed. (Now with Samsung USA).
17.
Casey Deccio
(2011), Univ. of California at Davis, Thesis area: Enhancing Security of the Domain Name System, Role: Co-advisor,
Starting date: Fall 2008, Status: completed. (Now with Verisign).
18.
Lihua Yuan (2009), Univ. of California at Davis, Thesis area: Cooperative Security Mechanisms for Domain
Name System, Role: Co-advisor, Starting date: Fall 2006, Status: completed.
(Now with Microsoft).
19.
Neha Udar
(2009), Southern Illinois University, Thesis area: Asset Localization in Data Centers Using UWB Radios, Role:
Co-advisor, Starting date: Fall 2006, Status: completed. (Now with Intel).
20.
Amit Sahoo (2008),
UC/Davis, Now with Cisco Systems, Thesis area: BGP Convergence Under Large Scale Internet Failures, Role:
Co-advisor, Starting date: Fall 2005, Status: completed. (Now with Amazon).
Recent Advising – Post Doctoral Fellows
1. Amitangshu Pal, Summer 2014 till Dec
2018, Exploiting synergies between food distribution and computer networks
and Communications for disaster response.
2. Alireza Jolfaei, Spring 2016—Dec 2017, Security
Issues in Smart Grid.
Recent Advising -- Other
1. Linxiao Dai, MS student, Working on Storage
Systems, Starting date: Fall 2016, Status: completed, Now with Dell.
2. Xue Wang, MS student, Working on Storage
Systems, Starting date: Fall 2016, Status: Completed.
3. Dhruvin Sheth, Temple
University, CIS Senior UG, Independent Study: Vulnerabilities of Smart Grid Communications Protocols, Role: Independent Study Advisor, Starting date: Fall 2015, Status:
completed.
4. Pradipti Pal, MS Independent study, Geospatial
analysis on twitter data, Starting date: Spring 2017, Status: completed.
5. Aron Cowan, Temple University, Junior
UG, Research Project: Exploiting
Provenance for Intelligent Prefetching of Data in Memory, Role: Supervisor, Starting date: Summer 2015, Status: completed.
Employment History
2014-Present:
Professor, Department of
Computer and Information Sciences (CIS), Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
I currently conduct
research in several areas: energy and configuration management in data centers,
Lightweight processing and conflicts in edge computing systems, magnetic
communications for intra-body networks, security in smart grid, emerging
storage technologies, and QoS in data center storage.
2010
- 2013: Research Professor, Center for
Secure Information Systems (CSIS), George Mason University (GMU).
My research at GMU was
also in the areas of security and robustness issues in data centers. My recent
work is also focused on robustness in the Internet, particularly robustness of
DNS/DNS-SEC and of inter-domain routing (BGP).
While at GMU, I also
served as a Program Director in the CISE/CNS division at the National Science
Foundation. At NSF, I managed computer systems research (CSR) program in the
CNS division and actively support a few other programs such as Expeditions in
Computing and Cyber-physical systems. Over the years, I was instrumental
in expanding the scope of the CSR program by addition of several emerging areas
including energy and sustainability, pervasive computing and communications,
high performance computing, and cloud computing.
I was also
deeply involved in the development of solicitations for the NSF-wide initiative
called SEES (Science, Engineering
and Education for Sustainability) and represented CISE directorate in this
initiative at multiple levels. In particular, I was intimately involved in the
development of several SEES solicitations and subsequently running the funding
competitions including Earth Systems Modeling (EASM), Sustainable Energy
Pathways (SEP), Sustainability Research Networks (SRN), Research Coordination
Networks (RCN), Hazard and Disaster Management (HazardSEES),
Cyber enabled sustainability science and engineering (CyberSEES),
etc.
I was also
actively driving international collaboration initiatives within NSF in
emerging fields of pervasive computing, sustainability, and infrastructure
security. In particular, I helped initiate a very successful US-India
collaborative research program called PC3 (pervasive computing &
communications collaboration) that currently has several successful ongoing
projects in several pervasive computing topics. I also co-advised and continue
to co-advise Ph.D. students at several institutions including ones at GMU, Hanyang University (Korea), Univ of Texas/Arlington,
University of Minnesota, and University of North Carolina/Charlotte.
2008
- 2010: Program Director, CISE/CNS
Division, National Science Foundation
This is a position at NSF similar to the current one. In addition to
managing CSR and other NSF programs, I started an initiative on energy efficiency
of IT, particularly data centers. This sub-area within CSR continues to attract
increasing interest from the community. I also started initiative in enhanced
international collaboration and organized several workshops for international
collaboration targeted at areas like pervasive computing & social
networking, infrastructure security, and computer networks and distributed
systems. I coadvised 3 Ph.D. students during this
time.
Research
Collaborations: I have active collaborations
with several universities. I have collaborated closely with University of
California at Davis since 2004 in the areas of robustness issues in the
Internet, with University of Minnesota on energy efficient and sustainable
computing since 2009, with University of Texas at Arlington on energy
adaptation in peer to peer networks since 2009, and with Hanyang
University (Korea) on emerging nonvolatile memory (NVRAM) technologies since
2008. Currently I am collaborating with University of North Carolina,
Charlotte on security configuration for data centers.
1997 - 2008: Senior Performance Analysis Engineer, Digital Enterprise
Group, Intel Corp, Hillsboro, OR.
Mainstream
R&D Areas: A significant part of my
work was focused in designing new algorithms for power management of platform
resources (DRAM ranks, DRAM-CPU interconnect, etc.) and detailed evaluation of
their performance impact. Many of these power management algorithms were either
adopted or heavily influenced power management architecture in Intel systems.
Another key research was in the area of asset localization in data centers
using wireless USB radios and its platform implementation issues. My related
work spanned various aspects of data centers including real-time resource
management, network virtualization, high speed networking, advanced transport
layer features, metering and monitoring in a virtualized environments, hardware
protocol acceleration, etc. My work on transport layer acceleration was
critical in deciding Intel’s direction in this space.
Other
work: One major theme of my work in
Intel was the detailed architectural modeling of server platforms from a
variety of perspectives. These models typically include details of processor
busses/links, memory pipeline, IO busses, network processing, etc. and were used
to assess impact of a variety of new HW capabilities on the performance of
server benchmarks such as TPC-C, TPC-H, SpecWeb
99/2005, etc. These models were routinely used in deciding overall
architecture of Intel servers for various segments. In particular, I
extensively studied hardware acceleration of various sorts (e.g., TCP, XML,
encryption, authentication, compression, etc.), and the impact of inter-process
communication latency on the performance of clustered database systems. I also
worked on a variety of other research/implementation projects at Intel,
including new server architectures that integrate compression into the DRAM,
Internet server traffic characterization in terms of self-similarity and
transactional properties, peer to peer computing, and network virtualization
and utility computing. At Intel I was also involved with committees responsible
for evaluating proposals submitted to Intel for funding.
Research
Collaboration and Funding: During my tenure at
Intel, I collaborated extensively with UC/Davis and wrote several joint NSF
funding proposals. Two of these proposals were funded and supported much
of my joint research with UC/Davis. In addition, during 2004-5, I spent
one year as a visiting researcher at UC/Davis to study advanced transport
features for data center networks. This visit was entirely supported by a
competitive research grant funded by Intel Research. During this time I
also initiated a new project on meta-data channel based security in the
Internet and was successful in having it funded (along with UC/Davis) by Intel
IT-research (different from Intel research). The work on these projects
involved close supervision of two Ph.D. students. I also worked closely
with Southern Illinois University and advised a Ph.D. student there on the
topic of UWB radio based asset localization in data centers. During this period
I also carried out key work in two areas of Internet robustness: impact of
large scale failures on the behavior of inter-domain routing via the BGP
protocol, and robustness issues associated with plain and secure domain name
service (DNS).
1991-1997: Senior Member of Technical Staff; Engineering,
Performance, and Control department, Telcordia (formerly Bellcore), Red Bank, NJ.
R&D
Areas: Telecommunications systems cover
two major areas of R&D: operations support system (OSS) and switching
systems (SS), and I have extensive experience on both of these sides. On the
OSS side, I examined issues relating to automatic provisioning of telephone
service which requires interactions with dozens of database systems. I
developed both mathematical and simulation models to study completion times for
automated provisioning. On the switching side, I examined a variety of issues
relating to signaling associated with call management. In particular, I worked
extensively on congestion control and link error monitoring in both narrow-band
and broadband SS7 (signaling system No. 7) networks. I also examined a variety
of engineering issues relating to SS7, personal communication systems (PCS),
ISDN, AIN (advanced intelligent network), impact of data connections on voice
networks, etc. Much of this work was critical in supporting Bellcore’s
generic requirements for US regional telecommunications networks and formed a
part of those requirements. During this time, I published extensively in
the areas of congestion control, performance modeling, and error monitoring.
During this time I was promoted to grade “H” (or consultant) which was the
highest grade in the technical ladder.
1989-1991: Assistant and then tenured Associate Professor of Computer
Science at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
1985-1989: Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA.
Teaching,
Research and Funding: I taught
undergraduate courses in operating systems and database systems which routinely
enjoyed overflow enrollments and very high student scores. I also
developed and taught graduate courses in several advanced areas including
computer system performance modeling, advanced operating systems, distributed
systems, and fault-tolerant computing. My primary areas of research were
computer system performance modeling and fault tolerant computing, and the
research was funded by NSF and DoD. During this time, I also wrote a
highly regarded and comprehensive graduate textbook on mathematical performance
modeling (listed above). I personally established, managed, and supported
the first networked laboratory of SUN workstations at Penn State for research
and teaching in networked systems. Several students were trained in networking
and systems issues on this very early networked system.
1981-1984: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Teaching/Research: Developed and taught undergraduate courses in several areas
including: digital circuits & logic design, compiler design, and operating
systems. Designed and delivered graduate courses/seminars in fault-tolerant
computing, operating systems, and software engineering. During this time my
research was primarily focused on fault-tolerant software design but
increasingly was directed towards performance modeling issues.
External
Publications (Since 1985):
1.
K. Kant and A. Silberschatz, ``Error Propagation and
Recovery in Concurrent Environments'', The Computer Journal, Vol 28, Nov 1985,
pp. 466-473.
2.
K. Kant, ``Finding Interference between Rectangular Paths'',
IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol C-34, Nov 1985, pp. 1045-1049.
3.
M.M. Srinivasan and K. Kant, ``The File Allocation
Problem: A Queuing Network Modeling Approach'', Computers and Operations
Research, Vol 14, May 1987, pp349-361.
4.
K. Kant, ``Software Fault-Tolerance in Real-Time
Computing Environments'', Information Sciences, Vol 42, Aug 1987, pp. 255-282.
5.
K. Kant, ``Performance Analysis of Hierarchical Ring
Networks'', Proc. of the 12th Conference on Local Area Networks, pp. 95-108,
Oct 1987.
6.
K. Kant, ``Modeling Inter-process Communication in
Distributed Programs'', Proc. of International Workshop on Petri-Net and
Performance Models, Madison, Wisconsin, pp. 75-83, Aug 1987.
7.
K. Kant, ``Application Level Modeling of Parallel
Machines'', Proc. of Performance 88, Santa Fe, NM , pp. 83-93, May 1988.
8.
A. Ravichandran and K. Kant, ``Fault Identification in
Robust Data Structures'', Proc. of the 19th Fault Tolerant Computing Symposium,
Chicago, Illinois, pp. 275-282, June 1989.
9.
M. Ghodsi and K. Kant, ``Performance
Modeling of Concurrent Systems under Resource Constraints'', Parallel Computing
1989, pp. 589-594, Elsevier Science publisher.
10.
K. Kant and F.C. Liaw,
``Modeling Parallel Programs Using Dynamic Task Graphs'', Proc. of the first
IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing., Dallas, Texas, pp.
90-97, May 1989.
11.
K. Kant, ``Performance Analysis of Real-Time Software
Supporting Fault-Tolerant Operation'', IEEE Transactions on Computers, 39(7),
pp. 906-918, July 1990.
12.
K. Kant, ``Analysis and Synthesis of Generalized Task
Graphs'', Proc. of the 2nd Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Dallas,
Texas, pp. 225-231, Dec 1990.
13.
M. Ghodsi and K. Kant,
``Analysis of Parallel Programs Running on Multiprocessor Systems'', Proc. of
Performance 90, Edinburgh, U.K., pp. 407-421, Dec 1990.
14.
M. Ghodsi and K. Kant,
``Performance Analysis of Parallel Search Algorithms on Multiprocessor
Systems'', Performance Evaluation, 13(1), pp. 67-83, sept 1991.
15.
M. Ghodsi and K. Kant,
``Well-Formed Generalized Task Graphs'', Proc. of the 3rd Symposium on Parallel
and Distributed Systems, Dallas, TX, pp. 344-351, Dec 1991.
16.
K. Kant, ``Analysis of Delayed Repair Policies in
Manufacturing Systems'', presented at ORSA-TIMS conference, Nashville, TN, May
1991.
17.
K. Kant, ``MVA Approximation for Shortest-Job-Next
Scheduling Discipline'', Performance Evaluation, Vol 14, March 1992.
18.
K. Kant and A. Ravichandran, ``Synthesizing Robust
Data Structures: An Introduction'', IEEE Transactions on Computers, 29(2), pp.
161-173, Feb 1990.
19.
K. Kant and A. Ravichandran, ``Synthesizing Robust
Data Structures: Formal Approach'', Acta Informatica, 1992.
20.
A. Ravichandran and K. Kant, ``A General Approach to
the Identification Compensated Faults in Robust Data Structures'', Information
Science, 59(1), pp. 167-187, Jan 1992.
21.
D. Daly, K. Kant, Y-B. Lin, V. Mak,
and D. Mok, ``COPS: A Computer Operations Performance
Simulation System'', Proc of the 26th Annual Simulation Symposium, Washington
D.C., April 1993.
22.
K. Kant, ``Performance of Window Flow-Control Protocol under
Errors'', April 1993, Bellcore (Telcordia) technical
report.
23.
K. Kant, ``Sustainable CCS Error Rate and its Implications for
Error Monitoring'', April 1993, Bellcore (Telcordia)
technical report.
24.
K. Kant, ``Evaluation of Error Interval Monitoring
Algorithm'', Sept 1993, Bellcore (Telcordia)
technical report.
25.
K. Kant, ``Error Monitor Design for High Speed CCS
Links'', Sept 1993, Bellcore (Telcordia) technical
report.
26.
K. Kant, ``Estimating Transmit Congestion at
Changeover Time in CCS Networks'', Sept 1993, Bellcore
(Telcordia) technical report.
27.
V.T. Hou, K. Kant, V. Ramaswami
and J.L. Wang, ``Error Monitoring Issues for Common Channel Signalling'',
IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, vol 12, no 3, April 1994, pp
456-467.
28.
K. Kant, ``Performance of Internal Overload Controls
in Large Switches'', Proc. of the 28th Annual Simulation Conference,
Phoenix, AZ, April 1995, pp 228-237.
29.
K. Kant, ``Broadband IN Signaling and Control Architectures
and Comparison with Industry directions'', Bellcore
TR-3745, Nov 1995.
30.
K. Kant, ``Analysis of Delay Performance of ATM
Signaling Links'', Proc of INFOCOM 95, Boston, MA, April 1995, pp 1146-1153.
31.
K. Kant, ``Generic Requirements for CCS Nodes
Supporting ATM High-Speed Signalling Links'',
GR-2878-CORE, Bellcore, Oct 1995.
32.
K. Kant, ``Analytic Modeling of SSCOP'', Proc of 3rd
International conference on Telecommunication Systems, Nashville, TN, Feb 1995,
469-482.
33.
K. Kant and J.R. Dobbins, ``An Error Monitoring
Algorithm for ATM Signaling Links'', Proc of the Sixth IFIP Conference on
Performance of Computer Networks, Istanbul, Turkey, Oct 1995, pp 367-381.
34.
K. Kant, ``A Simulation Study of BISUP Congestion
Control Issues'', Dec 1995, Bellcore (Telcordia)
technical report.
35.
K. Kant, ``Flow Control Mechanisms for SAAL Links'',
Proc of International IFIP-IEEE Conference on Broadband Communications,
Montreal, Canada, April 1996, pp 173-184.
36.
K. Kant, ``A Study of BISUP Call Processing Delay
Objectives'', Proc of Globecom 96, London, UK, pp
1400-1404, Nov 1996.
37.
K. Kant, ``A unified Global Congestion Control
Strategy for Broadband Signaling Networks'', Jan 1997, accepted for ATM’97
international conference.
38.
K. Kant, ``Flow
Control issues in ATM Signaling Link Deployment'' , Proc. of the 15th
International Teletraffic Congress, Washington DC, pp
1219-1228, June 1997.
39.
K. Kant and L. Ong, ``Signaling
in Emerging Telecommunications and Data Networks'' , (Invited Article),
Proc. of IEEE, Oct 1997, pp1612-1621. (Abstract only; full paper
available from IEEE digital library).
40.
K. Kant and Y. Won, ``Server
Capacity Planning for Web Traffic Workload'' , IEEE Transactions trans. on Knowledge
and Data Engineering, Oct 1999, pp 731-747.
41.
K. Kant, ``On
Aggregate Traffic Generation with Multifractal Properties'' , Proc. of
GLOBECOM99, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp 1179-1183. (The link points to expanded
version of the paper)
42.
K. Kant and Y. Won, ``Performance
Impact of Uncached File Accesses in SPECweb99'' ,
Proc. of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on workload characterization, Austin TX, Oct
1999. (Published by Kluver).
43.
P. Mohapatra, H. Thantry and K. Kant, “Characterization
of bus transactions for SPECweb96 benchmark” , Proc. of the 2nd IEEE
Workshop on workload characterization, Austin TX, Oct 1999. (Published by Kluver).
44.
K. Kant and C.R.M. Sundaram, ``A
Server Performance Model for Static Web Workloads'' , Proc. of
International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS
2000), April 2000.
45.
K. Kant, R. Iyer and P. Mohapatra, ``Architectural
Impact of Secure Socket Layer on Internet Servers'' , Proc. of
International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2000), Sept 2000, pp 7-14.
46.
V. Tewari, R. Iyer, and K. Kant, “Overload
Control Mechanisms for Web Servers”, Performance and QoS of Next Generation
Networks, Nagoya, Japan, Nov 2000, pp 225-244
47.
K. Kant and P. Mohapatra, “Scalable
Internet Servers: Issues and Challenges ”, PAWS-2000 proceedings, Aug 2000.
48.
U. Vallemselty, P. Mohapatra, R. Iyer and K. Kant, "Improving
Cache Performance of Network Intensive Workloads" , Proc. of
International Conference on Parallel Processing, Aug 2001.
49.
K. Kant and P. Mohapatra, “Current Research Trends in
Internet Servers” , PAWS-2001 proceedings (Performance Evaluation Reviews,
Vol. 29, no 2), Sept 2001, pp 5-7.
50.
K. Kant, V. Tewari, and R. Iyer, “Geist:
A generator of e-commerce and internet server traffic”, Proc. of ISPASS 2001 , Nov 2001, pp 49-56.
51.
K. Kant and R. Iyer, “Compressibility
Characteristics of Address/Data transfers in Commercial Workloads ”, CAECW
(Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads), Cambridge, MA,
Feb 2002.
52.
K. Kant, V. Tewari and R. Iyer, “Performance
Issues in Peer to peer file sharing ”, Tutorial presented at Tools 2002
conference, London, UK, April 2002.
53.
K. Kant, R. Iyer and V. Tewari, “A
performance model for peer to peer file-sharing services”, WWW-11
poster session (May 2002).
54.
K. Kant, R. Iyer and V. Tewari, “A
framework for classifying peer-to-peer Technologies” , Proc. of the 2nd
IEEE/ACM Intl. Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, May 21-26, 2002,
Berlin, Germany.
55.
K. Kant and M. Venkatachalam, “Modeling
traffic nonstationarity in e-commerce servers” ,
Proc. of SPECTS 2002, San Deigo, CA, July 2002, pp
949-956.
56.
K. Kant and M. Venkatachalam, “Transactional
Characterization of Front-end e-commerce Traffic”, Proc. of GLOBECOM 2002,
Taipei, Taiwan, Nov 2002.
57.
K. Kant, “An
Evaluation of Memory Compression Alternatives”, Proc. of CAECW
(Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads), Feb 2003,
Anaheim, CA.
58.
K. Kant, “An
Analytic Model for Peer to Peer File Sharing Networks”, Proc. of
International Communications Conference, May 2003, Anchorage, AL.
59.
U. Vallemsetty, K. Kant and P.
Mohapatra, “Characterization
of E-commerce Traffic”, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, No 3,
2003, pp167-192.
60.
K. Kant, R. Iyer and V. Tewari, “Building
Scalable Ad-hoc Collaboration Networks”, a tutorial presented at GLOBECOM,
Dec 2003, San Francisco, CA.
61.
K. Kant and R. Iyer, “Modeling
and Simulation of Ad-hoc/P2P File-sharing Networks ”, Proc. of Tools
2003 (tool presentation).
62.
K. Kant and R. Iyer, “Design
and Performance of Compressed Interconnects”, Proc. of ICCD 2003, Oct 2003,
San Francisco, CA.
63.
K. Kant, “TCP
offload performance for front-end servers ”, Proc. of GLOBECOM 2003, Dec
2003, San Francisco, CA.
64.
K. Kant and N. Jani, “SCTP
performance in Data Center Environments”, Proc. of SPECTS, July 2005,
Philadelphia, PA.
65.
K. Kant and A. Sahoo, “Clustered
DBMS Scalability under Unified Ethernet Fabric”, Proc. of ICPP, May 2005,
Oslo, Norway
66.
K. Kant, A. Sahoo and N. Jani, “DCLUE:
A Distributed Cluster Emulator”, IEICE Transactions, Special Issue
on Parallel/Distributed Computing and Networking, 2006. Also appears in Proc.
of 2005 Opnetwork, Washington DC, Aug 2005.
67.
K. Kant and R. Ramanujan, “Transport
Layer Enhancements for Unified Ethernet in Data Centers”, Intel IDF
presentation, San Francisco, CA, Aug 2005.
68.
K. Kant, “Application
Centric Autonomic BW Control in Utility Computing”, Proc. of the
Sixth IEEE/ACM Workshop on Grid Computing, Seattle, WA, Nov 2005.
69.
L. Yuan, K. Kant, P. Mohapatra and C.N. Chuah, “DoX: Domain
Name Cross Checking: An Antidote for DNS Cache Poisoning”, Proc. of
International Conference on Communications (ICC) , Istanbul ,
June 2006.
70.
A. Sahoo, K. Kant, and P. Mohapatra, “Characterization
of BGP recovery time under massive internet failures”, Proc. of
International Conference on Communications (ICC) , Istanbul , May 2006.
71.
A. Sahoo, K. Kant, and P. Mohapatra, “Improving
BGP Convergence Delay for Large Scale Failures”, Proc. of Dependable
Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2006.
72.
A. Sahoo, K. Kant, P. Mohapatra, “Speculative Route Invalidation to Improve Performance of BGP
under Large Scale Failures”, Proc. of International Conference on
Computers and Communications Networks (ICCCN), Washington DC, Oct 2006
73.
K. Kant, “Virtual Link: An Enabler of Enterprise Utility Computing”,
Proc. of International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and
Applications (ISPA), Sorrento, Italy, Dec 2006.
74.
L. Yuan, K. Kant, P. Mohapatra, C. Nee, “A
Proxy View of Quality of Domain Name Service”, Proc. of INFOCOM 2007,
Anchorage, Alaska, April 2007.
75.
A. Sahoo, K. Kant, P. Mohapatra, “Improving
Packet Delivery Performance of BGP During Large-Scale Failures", Proc.
of GLOBECOM 2007, Nov 2007, Washington DC.
76.
N. Udar, K. Kant, R. Viswanathan, D.
Cheung, "Characterization
of Ultra Wide Band Communications in Data Center
Environments", Proc. of 2007 IEEE International Conference on
Ultra-wideband (ICUWB), Singapore, Sept 2007, (a poster version also appeared
in Proc. of IFIP Networking 2007.)
77.
K. Kant, “Towards
a Virtualized Data Center Transport Protocol”, Proc. of 2008 INFOCOM
workshop on High Speed Networks, Phoenix, AZ, April 2008,
78.
K. Kant, ``LMPOWER
-- A Comprehensive Link-Memory Power Management Simulator'' , Unpublished
report, Intel Corp, May 2008.
79.
N. Udar, K. Kant, R. Viswanathan, "Localization
of Servers in a Data Center Using Ultra wideband Radios", Proc. of IFIP
Networking 2008, Singapore, May 5-9, 2008.
80.
K. Kant and J. Alexander, “Proactive vs. Reactive Idle Power Control ”,
Proc. of Design and Test Technology Conference (DTTC), Portland, OR, Aug 2008.
81.
K. Kant, N. Udar, R. Viswanathan, “Enabling
Location Based Services in Data Centers via Wireless USB Radios”, Proc. of
IEEE International Conference on Ultra-wideband, Hanover, Germany, Sept 2008.
82.
K. Kant, N. Udar, R. Viswanathan, “Localization
and Location Based Services in Data Centers", IEEE Network magazine,
Nov 2008.
83.
K. Kant, “Surviving
Large Scale Internet Outages”, A Tutorial given at International Conf. on
Distributed Computing and Networks (ICDCN), Hyderabad, India, Jan 2009.
84.
K. Kant, “Power
Control of High Speed Network Interconnects in Data Centers”, Proc. of 2009
INFOCOM High speed networks symposium, Rio de Janerio,
Brazil, April 2009
85.
A. Sahoo, K. Kant, P. Mohapatra, “BGP Convergence Delay under Large-Scale Failures:
Characterization and Solutions”, Computer
Communications, Vol 32, No 7, May 2009, pp1207-1218.
86.
K. Kant, “Challenges in Distributed Energy Adaptive Computing”,
Proc. of ACM HotMetrics, Seattle, WA, June 2009
87.
K. Kant, “Toward
a Science of Power Management”, IEEE Computer, Sept 2009.
88.
K. Kant, "Data
Center Evolution: A Tutorial on State of the Art, Issues, and Challenges",
Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, Dec 2009.
89.
C. Deccio, C. C. Chen, J. Sedayao, K. Kant , and P. Mohapatra, "Quality
of Name. Resolution in Domain Name System ," Proc. of IEEE ICNP 2009,
Princeton, NJ, Oct 2009, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNP.2009.5339693
90.
C. Deccio, J. Sedayao,
K. Kant , and P. Mohapatra, "Measuring
Availability in the Domain Name System”, Proc. of INFOCOM 2010, San Diego,
CA, April 2010, https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOM.2010.5462270
91.
K. Kant, “Distributed
Energy Adaptive Computing”, Proc. of International Conference on
Communications (ICC), Cape Town, South Africa, June 2010.
92.
K. Kant, "Supply and Demand Coordination in
Energy Adaptive Computing", Invited paper for ICCCN, Zurich, Switzerland,
Aug 2010.
93.
K. Kant, “Multistate
Power Management of Communication Links”, Proc. of COMSNET 2011, Bangalore,
India, Jan 2011
94.
C. Deccio, J. Sedayao,
K. Kant, and P. Mohapatra, "A
Case for Comprehensive DNSSEC Monitoring and Analysis Tools",
Proc. of SATIN (Securing and Trusting Internet Names) 2011, Teddington,
UK, April 2011, http://conferences.npl.co.uk/satin/agenda2011.html
95.
K. Kant, M. Murugan and D. Du, “Willow:
A Control System for Energy and Thermal Adaptive Computing”, Proc. of IPDPS
2011, Anchorage, AL, May 2011.
96.
K. Kant, “A
Control Scheme for Batching DRAM Requests to Improve Power Efficiency”,
Proc. of ACM Sigmetrics 2011, San Jose, CA, June
2011.
97.
K. Kant and D. Du, “Sustainability
and Energy Efficiency in Data Centers Design and Operation”, International
Supercomputing (ISC) 2011 Tutorial.
98.
M. Le, K. Kant and S. Jajodia, "Cooperative
Data Access in Multi-cloud Environments", Proc. of Database
Security Symposium (DBSec), Richmond, VA, July 2011
99.
C. Deccio, J. Sedayao,
K. Kant, and P. Mohapatra, “Quality
of Name Resolution in the Domain Name System”, Proc. of ICCCN
2011, Maui, Hawaii, Aug 2011, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCN.2011.6005908
100. K. Kant and P. Drineas, “Opportunities
for CISE Researchers in Sustainability”, Presentation at NSF, Oct 2011.
101. K. Kant, M. Le,
and S. Jajodia, "Security
Considerations in Data Center Configuration Management", Proc. of SafeConfig 2011, Nov 2011, Washington, DC.
102. K.
Kant, “Configuration
Management Security in Data Center Environments”,
Invited chapter in Moving Target Defense: Creating Asymmetric Uncertainty
for Cyberthreats, Eds. S. Jajodia, A. Ghosh, V.
Swarup, C. Wang, X. Wang, Springer, Dec 2011.
103. K.
Kant, “Energy
Adaptive Computing -- A New Paradigm for Sustainable Computing”, Invited chapter in Handbook of Energy Aware and Green
Computing, Eds. S. Ranka & I. Ahmed, Jan 2012.
104. K.
Kant and C. Deccio, “Security
and Robustness in the Internet Infrastructure”,
in Handbook on securing cyber-physical systems, Morgan Kaufman, S. Das, K.
Kant, N. Zhang (eds.), Dec 2012, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-415815-3.00028-5
105.
C. Deccio,
J. Sedayao, K. Kant, and P. Mohapatra, “Quantifying DNS Namespace Influence”, Elsevier
Computer Networks, Volume 56, Issue 2, Feb. 2012. pp. 780 – 794, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2011.11.005
106. M. Murugan, David
H.C. Du and K. Kant, "On
the Interconnect Energy Efficiency of High End Computing Systems",
Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, Elsevier Press, April 2012.
107. K. Kant, “Human
Behavior Considerations in Metrics for Smart Infrastructures”, Proc. of
SMART 2012, Stuttgart, Germany, May 2012.
108. K. Kant, M. Murugan, D. Du, “Energy Adaptation for Multi-tiered Data Center Applications”, Intel Technology
Journal, Vol 16, No 1, Sept 2012.
109. K. Kant, M.
Murugan, D. Du, “Enhancing
Data Center Sustainability Through Energy Adaptive Computing”, ACM Journal
of Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, Vol 8, No 4, Oct 2012.
110. M. Raj, K. Kant
and S.K. Das, "Energy
Adaptive Mechanism for P2P File Sharing Protocols", Proc. of CWGS
workshop at EUROPAR conference, Rhode Island, Greece, Aug 2012
111. K. Kant, R. Iyer and P. Mohapatra, ``Architectural
Impact of Secure Socket Layer on Internet Servers: A Retrospect'',
International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Oct 2012, 30th
Anniversary presentation. (One of 5 high impact papers selected from last 30
years of ICCD).
112. S. Prasad, A.
Gupta, K. Kant, et al, “Literacy
for All in Parallel and Distributed Computing: Guidelines for an Undergraduate
Core Curriculum”, CSI Journal of computing, Vol 1, No 2, 2012
113. M. Le, K. Kant
and S. Jajodia, "Consistent
Query Plan Generation in Secure Cooperative Data Access", Proc.
of SafeConfig 2012, Baltimore, MD, Oct 3-4, 2012.
114. M. Le, K. Kant
and S. Jajodia, "Access
Rule Consistency in Cooperative Data Access Environment”, Proc. of CollaborateCom conference, Oct 15-17, 2012, Pittsburgh, PA.
115. C.C. Chen, P.
Mohapatra, C.N. Chuah and K. Kant, “A
Proxy View of Quality of Domain Name Service, Poisoning Attacks and Survival
Strategies”, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Vol 12, No 3,
May, 2013.
116. M. Le, K. Kant,
and S. Jajodia, “Rule
enforcement with third parties in secure cooperative data access”, Proc. of
DBsec 2013, Newark, NJ, Wang and B. Shafiq
(Eds.): LNCS 7964, pp. 282–288, July 2013.
117. K. Kant, “Sustainability
Issues in Digital Preservation”, Presentation at National Endowment for
Arts workshop on Digital Preservation, Alexandria, VA, July 2013.
118. Lihua Yuan, Chao-Chih Chen, Prasant Mohapatra, Chen-Nee Chuah, and Krishna
Kant. 2013. A Proxy View of Quality of Domain Name Service, Poisoning Attacks
and Survival Strategies. ACM Trans. Internet Technol.
12, 3, Article 9 (May 2013)
119. M. Le, K. Kant,
and S. Jajodia, “Enabling
Collaborative Data Authorization Between Enterprise Clouds”, Book chapter
in Secure Cloud Computing, Eds. S. Jajodia,
K. Kant, P. Samarati, et.al., Springer, publication date: Feb 2014.
120. M. Le, K. Kant
and S. Jajodia, "Consistency
and Enforcement of Access Rules in Cooperative Data Sharing Environment ”,
Elsevier Computers and Security (COSE) Journal, Vol 41 (March 2014), pp 3-18.
121. M. Le, Krishna
Kant, and Sushil Jajodia, “Consistent
Query Plan Generation in Secure Cooperative Data Access”, Proc. of DBSec, Vienna, Austria, July 2014.
122. M. Raj, K. Kant,
S.K. Das, “E-DARWIN:
Energy Adaptive Disaster Recovery Network Using WiFi
Tethering”, proc. of ICCCN 2014, Shanghai, Aug 2014
123. M. Murugan, K.
Kant, D. Du, and A. Raghavan, “Group
based energy adaptation for storage systems”, Proc. of Feedback Computing”,
9th Intl workshop on Feedback Computing, Usenix
2014, Philadelphia, PA, June 2014
124. M. Murugan, K.
Kant, D. Du, and A. Raghavan, “FlexStore:
A flexible and Adaptive Storage Framework for Deduplicated Virtual Disks”,
Proc. of MASCOTS, Paris, France, Sept 2014.
125. J. Gim, Y. Won, T. Hwang and K. Kant, "SmartCon:
Smart Context Switching for Fast Block Devices", ACM
transactions on Storage, Vol 11, Issue 2, March 2015 .
126. M. Le, K. Kant,
M. Athamnah, and S. Jajodia, “Minimum
Cost Rule Enforcement for Cooperative DataBase Access”,
Journal of Computer Security 24 (2016) pp379–403
127. Amitangshu Pal
and K. Kant, “Water
Flow Driven Sensor Networks for Leakage and Contamination Monitoring”,
Proc. of WoWMoM, Boston, MA, June 2015
128. Amitangshu Pal
and K. Kant, “Collaborative
Heterogeneous Sensing: An Application to Contamination Detection in Water
Distribution Networks”, Invited paper at ICCCN 2015, Las Vegas, NV, July
2015
129. Amitangshu Pal
and K. Kant, “RODA:
A Reconfigurable Optical Data Center Network Architecture”, Proc. of
LCN 2015, Clearwater Beach, FL, Oct 2015.
130. Amitangshu Pal
and K. Kant, “SmartPorter:
A Combined Perishable Food and People Transport Architecture in Smart Urban
Areas”, Proc. of SMARTCOMP, St. Louis, MO, May 2016.
131. K. Kant and
Amitangshu Pal, “Networking
in Real World: Unified Modeling of Information and Perishable Commodity
Distribution Networks”, Proc. of 3rd International Physical
Internet Conference (IPIC), Atlanta, GA, June 2016.
132. Amitangshu Pal
and K. Kant, “F2π:
A Physical Internet Architecture for Fresh Food Distribution Networks”,
Proc. of 3rd International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC),
Atlanta, GA, June 2016.
133. Ibrahim
El-Shekeil, Amitangshu Pal and K. Kant, “IP
Address Consolidation and Reconfiguration In Enterprise Networks”,
Invited paper in ICCCN 2016, Kona, Hawaii, Aug 2016.
134. Amitangshu Pal
and K. Kant, “On
the Feasibility of Distributed Sampling Rate Adaptation in Heterogeneous and
Collaborative Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proc. of ICCCN 2016, Kona, Hawaii,
Aug 2016
135. Ibrahim
El-Shekeil, Amitangshu Pal and K. Kant, “Progressive
Recovery of Interdependent Services in Enterprise Data Centers”, Proc. of
Resilience Week Communications Symposium, Chicago, IL, Aug 2016.
136. M. Athamnah and
K. Kant, “Generalized
Inter-Cloud Structured Data Sharing”, Proc. of CLOUDCOM, Luxembourg, Dec
2016, pp 198 - 205
137. A. Alazzawe and
K. Kant, “Power-Aware
Program Resilience Through Slicing”, Proc. of HPCC (High Performance
Computing & Communications), Sydney, Australia, Dec 2016.
138. Amitangshu Pal
and K. Kant, “Internet of Perishable Logistics”, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol
21, Issue 1, Feb 2017, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8620982
139. Yilang Wu, K.
Kant, Shanshan Zhang, Amitangshu Pal, Junbo Wang, “Disaster Network Evolution
Using Dynamic Clustering of Twitter Data”, Proc. of US-Japan workshop at ICDCS
conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2017, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7979845
140. Amitangshu Pal
and K. Kant, “A Food Transportation Framework for an Efficient and
Worker-friendly Fresh Food Physical Internet”, MDPI Logistics J., Vol 10, No 1,
Dec 2017, https://www.mdpi.com/2305-6290/1/2/10
141. Dusan Ramljak and
K. Kant, “Belief-Based Storage Systems”, 9th USENIX Workshop on Hot
Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage 17),
Santa Clara, CA, July 2017, https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotstorage17/hotstorage17-paper-ramljak.pdf
142. A. Jolfaei and K.
Kant, “Integrity
Protection in Smart Grid: A Lightweight Solution for Communications in
Transmission and Distribution Substations”, Proc. of 14th Intl.
conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), Madrid, Spain, July 2017.
143. Amitangshu Pal
and K. Kant, “NACID: A Neighborhood Aware Caching and Interest Dissemination in
Content Centric Networks”, Proc. of ICCCN, Vancouver, BC, Aug 2017, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8038370
144. Amitangshu Pal
and K. Kant, “Magnetic Induction Based Sensing and Localization for Fresh Food
Logistics”, Proc. of Local Computer Networks (LCN), Singapore, Oct 2017, https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/lcn/2017/6523a383/12OmNwe2IwS
145. Sanjeev Sondur,
Madhurima Ray, Joyanta Biswas, K. Kant, “Implementing Data Center Network
Energy Management Capabilities in NS3”, Proc. of International Green and
Sustainable Computing (IGSC), Orlando, FL, Oct 2017, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8323566
146. A. Alazzawe and
K. Kant, “Slice Swarms for HPC Application Resilience”, Proc. of CANDAR,
Aomori, Japan, Nov 2017, https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/candar/2017/2087a001/12OmNC4eSBC
147. M. Athamnah, A.
Alazzawe, and K. Kant, “Collaborative Similarity Search Across Multi-party
Repositories”, Proc. of ICDCN, Varanasi, India, Jan 2018, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3154273.3154352
148. M. Ray, S.
Sondur, J. Biswas, A. Pal and K. Kant, “Opportunistic Power Savings with
Coordinated Control in Data Center Networks”, Proc. of ICDCN, Varanasi, India,
Jan 2018, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3154273.3154328
149. D. Ramljak, A.
Pal, and K. Kant, “Pattern Mining Based Compression of IoT Data”, Proc. of
ICDCN (Int. conf on distributed systems and networks) workshop on Smart and
Connected Communities (SCC), Varanasi, India, Jan 2018, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3170521.3170533
150. Amitangshu Pal
and K. Kant, “E-Darwin2: A Smartphone Based Disaster Recovery Network using WiFi Tethering”, Proc. of CCNC, Las Vegas, Jan 2018.
151. Amitangshu Pal
and K. Kant, “IoT-Based Sensing and Communication Infrastructure for the Fresh
Food Supply Chain”, IEEE Computer, Feb 2018, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8301108
152.
Ibrahim El-Shekeil, Amitangshu Pal, K. Kant, “PRECESION:
Progressive recovery and restoration planning of interdependent services in
enterprise data centers”, Elsevier Digital Communications and Networks, Volume
4, Issue 1, March 2018, Pages 39-47, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352864817300846
153. D. Ramljak, D.
Abraham, K. Kant, D. Voigt, “BeliefCache:
Belief-Based Data Pre-fetching and Replacement in Storage Systems”, Proc. of
Edge Computing (EDGE 2018), Seattle, WA, June 2018, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-94340-4_2
154.
M. Athamnah and K. Kant, “A Framework for Misconfiguration
Diagnosis in Interconnected Multiparty Systems”, Proc. of ICCCN, Hangzhou,
China, Aug 2018, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8487411
155. K. Kant, Energy
Efficiency Issues in Computing Systems, Chapter 5 in CDER book: Topics in
Parallel and Distributed Computing, Sept 2018, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-93109-8_5
156. A. Jolfaei and K.
Kant, “A Lightweight Integrity Protection Scheme for Fast Communications in
Smart Grid”, Computers and Security Journal (COSE), Oct 2018, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016740481831126X
157. Shanshan Zhang,
Amitangshu Pal, Krishna Kant and Slobodan Vucetic, “Enhancing Disaster
Situational Awareness via Automated Summary Dissemination of Social Media
Content, Proc. of GLOBECOM, Abu Dhabi, Dec 2018, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8647340
158.
Ibrahim El-Shekeil, Amitangshu Pal, and Krishna Kant, “CloudMiner: A Systematic Failure Diagnosis Framework in Enterprise Cloud
Environments”, Proc of IEEE CloudCom, Nicosia, Cypress, Dec 2018, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8590997
159. Yilang Wu,
Amitangshu Pal, Junbo Wang and K. Kant, “Incremental Spatial Clustering for
Spatial Big Crowd Data in Evolving Disaster Scenario”, Proc. of IEEE Consumer
Communications and Networking, Jan 2019, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8651840
160.
Amitangshu Pal and Krishna Kant, “Internet of Perishable
Logistics: Building Smart Fresh Food Supply Chain Networks”, IEEE Access, Jan
2019, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8620982
161. A.
Jolfaei and K. Kant, “Data Security in Multiparty Edge Computing Environments”, Invited
paper at GOMACTECH 2019, Albuquerque, NM, March 2019.
162. A. Al-Farooq and
E. Al-Shaer and K. Kant, “A Formal Method for Detecting Rule Conflicts in Large
Scale IoT Systems”, Proc. of IM 2019 : IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on
Integrated Network Management, April, 2019, http://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/im/im2019mini/188760.pdf
163.
Rajpreet Kaur Gulati, Amitangshu Pal and Krishna Kant,
“Experimental Evaluation of a Near-Field Magnetic Induction Based Communication
System”, Proc. of IEEE WCNC (Wireless Communications and Networking
Conference), April 2019, Marrakesh, Morocco, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8885541
164.
J. Biswas, M. Ray, A. Pal and K. Kant, “Coordinated Power
Management in Data Center Networks”, Elsevier Suscom Journal, Vol 22,
June 2019, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221053791830101X
165. Sanjeev Sondur
and Krishna Kant, “Towards Automated Configuration of Cloud Storage Gateways: A
data driven approach”, Proc. of Cloud 2019, San Diego, CA, June 2019, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-23502-4_14
166. Amitangshu
Pal, Rajpreet Kaur Gulati and Krishna Kant, “Towards Building Low Power
Magnetic Communication Protocols for Challenging Environments”, Proc. of ICCCN,
Valencia, Spain, Aug 2019, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8847145
167. M. Murugan, K.
Kant, A. Raghavan, D. Du, “Software
Defined Energy Adaptation in Scale-Out Storage Systems”, Future
Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), . Volume 97, Pages 340-354, August 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2019.02.018
168. Alireza Jolfaei,
Krishna Kant and Hassan Shafei, “Secure Data Streaming to Untrusted Road Side
Units in Intelligent Transportation System”, Proc. of Intl workshop on Safety,
Security, and Trust in Intelligent Transportation System (SST-ITS), IEEE TrustCom, Rotorua, NZ, Aug 2019, https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/trustcom-bigdatase/2019/277700a793/1ezRoLx95ew
169. Madhurima Ray,
Joyanta Biswas, Amitangshu Pal, Krishna Kant, “Adaptive Data Center Network
Traffic Management for Distributed High Speed Storage”, Proc. of LCN,
Osnabruck, Germany, Oct 2019, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9000662
170. Anis Alazzawe and
Krishna Kant, “Mimic: Fast Recovery From Latent Errors in Stencil
Computations”, Proc. of IPCCC 2019, London UK, Oct 2019, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8958749
171.
Lu Pang, Anis Alazzawe, Krishna Kant, Jeremy Swift, “Data Heat
Prediction in Storage Systems Using Behavior Specific Prediction Models”, Proc.
of IPCCC 2019, London UK, Oct 2019, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8958715
172.
Amitangshu Pal and K. Kant, “Water
Flow Driven Sensor Networks for Leakage and Contamination Monitoring in
Distribution Pipelines, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Vol 15, No
4, Oct 2019, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3342513
173.
Sanjeev Sondur, Krishna Kant, Slobodan
Vucetic, “Storage on the Edge: Evaluating Cloud Backed
Edge Storage in Cyber-physical Systems”,
Proc. of IEEE MASS, Monterrey, CA, Nov 2019,
174. Amitangshu Pal
and Krishna Kant, “Using Blockchain for Provenance and Traceability in
IoT-Integrated Food Logistics”, IEEE Computer, Vol 52, No. 12, Dec 2019, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8909921
175. Amitangshu Pal and Krishna Kant. 2020. Smart
Sensing, Communication, and Control in Perishable Food Supply Chain. ACM Trans. Sensor Networks, Vol 16, No 1, (Jan 2020), 41 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3360726
176. A. Jolfaei and K.
Kant, “On the Silent Perturbation of State Estimation in Smart Grid”, IEEE
Transactions on Industry Applications, Jan 2020, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8968367
177. Amitangshu
Pal, Mayank Raj, Krishna Kant and Sajal Das, “A Smartphone based Network
Architecture for Post-Disaster Operations using WiFi
Tethering”, ACM trans. On Internet Technology (TOIT), Vol 20, No 1, Feb 2020, https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3372145
178.
Sanjeev Sondur, Girisha Shankar and Krishna Kant, “CHeSS: Towards A Configuration Health Scoring System and Its
Application to Network Devices”, Proc. ICIN 2020, Paris, France, Feb 2020, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9059494
179. K. Kant, “Advanced
Persistent Threats in Autonomous Driving”, ACM
Performance Evaluation Review, aVol 47, No 4, April
2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3397776.3397783
180. Madhurima Ray,
Peng Li, Krishna Kant, and Sanjeev Trika, “FlashKey:
A High-Performance Flash Friendly Key-Value Store”, Proc. of IPDPS, New
Orleans, LA, May 2020. https://doi-org.libproxy.temple.edu/10.1109/IPDPS47924.2020.00104
181.
Sanjeev Sondur, Kenny Gross, and K. Kant, “Thermo-Mechanical Coupling
Induced Performance Degradation in Storage Systems”, Proc. of Intl. Conference
on Cluster and Grid Computing (CCGrid) 2020,
Melbourne, Australia, May 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGrid49817.2020.00-78
182. Tanaya Roy and
Krishna Kant, “Enhancing Endurance of SSD Based high-performance Storage
Systems using Emerging NVM Technologies”, High Performance Systems Workshop,
IPDPS, New Orleans, May 2020. https://doi-org.libproxy.temple.edu/10.1109/IPDPSW50202.2020.00178
183. Amitangshu Pal,
Alireza Jolfaei, Krishna Kant, “A Fast Prekeying
Based Integrity Protection for Smart Grid Communications", IEEE trans. on
Industrial Informatics, Oct 2020, https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2020.3030799
184.
A. Pal and K. Kant, “NFMI: Near Field Magnetic Induction Based
Communication”, Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, Vol 181, Nov 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2020.107548
185.
A. Alazzaw and A. Pal and K. Kant, “Efficient Big-Data Access: Taxonomy and a Comprehensive Survey”, IEEE trans. on
Bigdata, Nov 2020, https://doi.org/10.1109/TBDATA.2020.3036813
186.
J. Gupta, K. Kant and A. Abouelwafa, “FussyCache: A Caching Mechanism for Emerging Storage Hierarchies”, Proc. of
IEEE CloudCom Conf., Dec 2020, https://doi.org/10.1109/CloudCom49646.2020.00010
187. P. Pradeep, A.
Pal and K. Kant, “Resource Efficient Edge Computing Infrastructure for Video
Surveillance”, Accepted in IEEE trans on sustainable computing, March 2021, https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.libproxy.temple.edu/document/9372841
188. A. Pal and K.
Kant, “A Neighborhood Aware Caching and Interest
Dissemination Scheme for Content Centric Networks”, Accepted in IEEE Trans
on Network and Service Management (TNSM).
189. Sanjeev Sondur,
Anis Alazzawe, and Krishna Kant, “Well-Informed Evolutionary
Algorithm For Optimal Configuration Of Complex Cyber-systems”, submitted
for publication.
190. Sanjeev Sondur,
Krishna Kant and Anis Alazzawe, “Optimal
Configuration of High-Performance Systems”, Proc.of
HPCS conference, March 2021.
191. A. Pal and K.
Kant, “DC-PoET:
Proof-of-Elapsed-Time Consensus with Distributed Coordination for Blockchain
Networks”, accepted in IFIP Networking Conference, May 2021.
192.
Pavana Pradeep, Amitangshu Pal, Krishna Kant, “Automating Conflict
Detection and Mitigation in Large-Scale IoT Systems”, Accepted for CCGrid Conference, May 2021.
193. J. Biswas, K.
Kant, A. Pal and D. Minturn, “QoS
aware TCP For Data Center Storage (QTCP)”, submitted for publication.
194. Amitangshu Pal,
Junbo Wang, Yilang Wu, Krishna Kant, “Social Media Driven Big Data Analysis
for Disaster Situation Awareness: A Tutorial”, submitted for publication.
195. J. Wang, A. Pal,
K. Zhu, K. Kant, W. Chen and S. Guo, “Collaborative Machine Learning:
Schemes, Robustness and Privacy, Submitted for publication.
196. P. Pradeep, K.
Kant, A. Pal, “Composable Safety in Smart Transportation Systems”, submitted
for publication.
197. T. Roy, J. Gupta,
K. Kant, A. Pal, D. Mintern, A. Tavvakol,
“Managing SSD tail latency with PLM”, submitted for publication.