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Author:

Sharma, Bikash

Title:

Towards Improving Performance and Reliability of Cloud Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

cloud computing
workload characterization
scheduling
resource management
fault diagnosis
virtualization
mapreduce

File:

Download Final_Bikash_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Joseph Hellerstein, Special Member
Raj Acharya, Special Member

Author:

Palasamudram, Darshan Suresh

Title:

Reducing the Power Costs of Content Distribution Networks Using Batteries

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Batteries
Power
CDN

File:

Download Darshan-Thesis_Report.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bily, Paul Lawrence

Title:

Implementation and Evaluation of a Software-based Power Virtualization Technique

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

power
energy
virtualization
virtualize
management
data center
datacenter
DVFS
UPS
PDU
hierarchy
lottery scheduling

File:

Download PaulBily_PowerVirtualization_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Vijayakumar, Hayawardh

Title:

Protecting Programs During Resource Access

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Operating Systems
Security
Resource Access

File:

Download submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent Ray Jaeger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Di

Title:

Provisioning and Harnessing Energy Storage in Datacenters

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Datacenters
Power Management
Energy Storage
Batteries

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Aman Kansal, Special Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Cheng

Title:

IMPROVING COST-EFFICACY IN PUBLIC CLOUDS: OPTIMAL CONTROL SUBJECT TO CLOUD-TENANT INTERACTIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Public cloud
Tenant
Cost-efficacy

File:

Download chengwang-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member
Vinayak V Shanbhag, Outside Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sun, Yuqiong

Title:

PROTECTING IAAS CLOUDS THROUGH CONTROL OF CLOUD SERVICES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cloud Security
Mandatory Access Control
Information Flow Control
Cloud Service Vulnerability

File:

Download Dissertation-YuqiongSun.pdf

Committee Members:

Trent R. Jaeger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Trent R. Jaeger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick D. Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
C. Lee Giles, Outside Member
Danfeng Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Kamrava, Sepideh

Title:

Resource Procurement in Cloud Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Cloud Computing
Optimization
Resource Procurement
Reserved instances

File:

Download Thesis-Final-2.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member

Author:

Qiu, Li

Title:

Improving Capacity and Robustness of Wireless Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Cache
Network capacity
Popularity-aware caching
Social links
Amplify-and-forward
Direct link placement

File:

Download dissertation_li.pdf

Committee Members:

Guohong Cao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guohong Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Zhibiao Zhao, Outside Member

Author:

Krishna, Vinayaka N

Title:

Dense Convolutional Object Detectors for Visual Assistive Systems On Mobile Platform

Graduate Program:

Computer Science

Keywords:

Convolutional Neural Network
DenseNets
ResNet
Deep Learning
Visual Assistance System
Mobile Deep Learning

File:

Download VinayakaKrishna-DissertationFinal4.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Sampson, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member