Random Access Performance and ISP-CDN Interaction

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                ***Joint Seminar***

The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
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Speaker:	Dr. Mung CHIANG
		Department of Electrical Engineering
		Princeton University

Title:		"Random Access Performance and ISP-CDN Interaction"

Date:		Monday, 2 March, 2009

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre F
		(Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST

Abstract:

This talk is about two unrelated topics. One is the first proof of
convergence of adaptive CSMA arbitrarily close to utility-optimality with
no message passing. Two is analysis and design of the interactions between
pipe providers and content providers in the Internet.

The results were obtained in collaboration with Microsoft Research and
Princeton CS.


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Biography:

Mung Chiang is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and an
Affiliated Faculty of Applied and Computational Mathematics and of
Computer Science, at Princeton University. He received the B.S. (Honors)
in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1999, 2000, and 2003,
respectively. His research areas include optimization, distributed
control, and stochastic analysis of communication networks, with
applications to the Internet, wireless networks, broadband access
networks, and content distribution.

His awards include Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and
Engineers 2008 from the White House, Young Investigator Award 2007 from
ONR, TR35 Young Innovator Award 2007 from Technology Review, Young
Researcher Award Runner-up 2004-2007 from Mathematical Programming
Society, CAREER Award 2005 from NSF, as well as Frontiers of Engineering
Symposium participant 2008 from NAE and SEAS Teaching Commendation 2007
from Princeton University. He was a Princeton University Howard B. Wentz
Junior Faculty and a Hertz Foundation Fellow. His paper awards include ISI
citation Fast Breaking Paper in Computer Science, IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper
Finalist, and IEEE GLOBECOM Best Student Paper. He also has 16 patents
filed, given plenary talks at IEEE workshops RAWNET and SAM, and
co-chaired 38th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems. His guest
and associate editorial services include IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw., IEEE
Trans. Inform. Theory, IEEE J. Sel. Area Comm., IEEE Trans. Comm., IEEE
Trans. Wireless Comm., and J. Optimization and Engineering.