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Emir Halepovic, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary AB T2N 1N4, Canada

Email: emirh@cpsc.ucalgary.ca

Research Interests:

Performance evaluation, benchmarking, data traffic modeling and analysis
Networking performance, protocols and standards
Wireless, mobile and ubiquitous networking
WiFi, WiMAX, CDMA, EV-DO, LTE, 3G, 4G
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, platforms, applications and systems

Recent Projects:

Exploiting Network Coding and Redundant Traffic Elimination to improve performance of P2P file sharing
Techniques for improving Redundant Traffic Elimination (RTE) at packet level and end-host level
Analysis of data redundancy in enterprise, university, and residential network traffic as a whole and per individual user
Improving TCP and multimedia application performance over commercial broadband wireless links
Effects of TCP variants and Linux kernel settings on TCP and UDP performance over broadband wireless links

Publications:

E. Halepovic, M. Ghaderi, C. Williamson, On the Performance of Redundant Traffic Elimination in WLANs, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Ottawa, Canada, 2012. PDF
E. Halepovic, C. Williamson, M. Ghaderi, Enhancing redundant network traffic elimination, Elsevier Computer Networks, Vol. 56, 2012, pp. 795-809, PDF
E. Halepovic, C. Williamson, M. Ghaderi, Low-Overhead Dynamic Sampling for Redundant Traffic Elimination, Journal of Communications, SI on Advances in Communications and Networking, accepted, 2011. PDF
E. Halepovic, C. Williamson, M. Ghaderi, DYNABYTE: A dynamic sampling algorithm for redundant content detection, in 20th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), Maui, HI, 2011. PDF (Journal version)
E. Halepovic, C. Williamson, M. Ghaderi, Wireless Data Traffic: A Decade of Change. IEEE Network, Vol 23/2, March/April 2009, pp 20-26.
E. Halepovic, M. Ghaderi, C. Williamson, Multimedia Application Performance on a WiMAX Network. The 16th Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN), San Jose, CA, USA, January 2009
E. Halepovic, Q. Wu, C. Williamson, M. Ghaderi, TCP over WiMAX: A Measurement Study. The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Baltimore, MD, USA, September 2008, pp 327-336.
C. Williamson, E. Halepovic, H. Sun and Y. Wu, Characterization of CDMA2000 Cellular Data Network Traffic. The 5th International IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN), Sydney, Australia, November 2005, pp. 712-719.
E. Halepovic, R. Deters, and B. Traversat, JXTA Messaging: Analysis of Feature-Performance Tradeoffs and Implications for System Design. International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA), Agia Napa, Cyprus, October 2005, published by Springer-Verlag LNCS Volume 3761, pp 1097-1114.
E. Halepovic and C. Williamson, Characterizing and Modeling User Mobility in a Cellular Data Network. The 2nd ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN), Montreal, QC, Canada, October 2005, pp. 71-78.
E. Halepovic and R. Deters, The JXTA Performance Model and Evaluation. Future Generation Computer Systems, Special issue on Peer-to-Peer Computing and Interaction with Grids, 2004, Elsevier, Vol 21/3 pp 377-390.
E. Halepovic, R. Deters, and B. Traversat, Performance Evaluation of JXTA Rendezvous. International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA), Agia Napa, Cyprus, 2004, published by Springer-Verlag LNCS Volume 3291, pp 1125-1142.
E. Halepovic and R. Deters, JXTA Performance Study. PACRIM'03 Conference, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2003, pp. 149-154.
E. Halepovic and R. Deters, The Costs of Using JXTA. The Third IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, Linköping, Sweden, 2003, pp. 160-167.
E. Halepovic and R. Deters, Building a P2P Forum System with JXTA. The Second IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, Linköping, Sweden, 2002, pp. 41-48.

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Last updated October 12, 2010.