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Mukundan V. Iyengar Ph. D. Candidate Electical Engineering and Computer Science Office: Harris Corp (Engg III), Room# 315 University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 32816 Email: mukundan -at- cs.ucf.edu Links: Publications Curriculum Vitae: pdf |
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About
I recently defended my thesis, and I am graduating with a PhD (Computer Engineering) in Summer 2011.
I was fortunate to have been approached by Facebook, Cisco, and Cheetah Tech with potential job opportunities.
I have accepted a post-doctoral postition under Dr. K. Subbalakshmi at Stevents Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ starting June 2011.
Follow links to my publications and online CV.
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in the following domains: Internet routing, distributed services, overlay networks, data dissemination networks, and social networks with enhanced multimedia.
My current work involves networked multimedia systems on the Internet.
It investigates ways of deploying massive-scale multimedia services over the Internet, including IPTV, VoD, 3D, tele-immersion, online multiplayer games, VoIP etc. Much of my work involves gathering and analyzing large-scale Internet measurements to optimize multimedia traffic.
My PhD thesis aims at providing a generic service on the Internet that a variety of multimedia applications can query to consistently obtain low-delay, loss-free paths that often outperform Internet path selection.
Projects
The following projects/ideas each form a component of my Ph.D. thesis:
PeopleNet: an Internet for the people > Over 70% of consumer Internet traffic today is multimedia based,
yet the Internet is designed for text/images! PeopleNet is an overlay on top of the present day Internet that forms a routing substrate which applications can query to obtain superior Internet
paths that consistently outperform current Internet path selection.
Quantifying and Improving Internet Video QoE > provides the first quantificaiton of present day Internet video-QoE. This project analyzes the QoE degradations both at the link layer and end-to-end network layer issues of present day Internet routing, and proposes workarounds.
MintMOS: Inferring Video QoE in real time > investigates ways that an overlay node on the Internet can infer video-QoE in real time without needing reference frames to compare to.
Quantifying and Improving Internet Video QoE > provides the first quantificaiton of present day Internet video-QoE. This project analyzes the QoE degradations both at the link layer and end-to-end network layer issues of present day Internet routing, and proposes workarounds.
MintMOS: Inferring Video QoE in real time > investigates ways that an overlay node on the Internet can infer video-QoE in real time without needing reference frames to compare to.
Hobbies
I am (also) a professional photographer. A lot of my artwork has featured on the UCF homepage, brochures and travel-magazines.
Time permitting, I also do event-photography/portfolio building (Trade-For-Print, or TF* photoshoots).
Feel free to browse some travel/landscape/random-art shots here.