From March 24th to 31st, 2012, Dr. Don Towsley, professor of the University of Massachusetts in the US, and Dr. John C. S. Lui, professor of Chinese University of Hong Kong, visited the School of Computer Science and Technology.
Dr. Don Towsley delivered a report titled “Swarms: First Class Citizens in the Future Internet”. Firstly, he introduced the changes of internet traffic of various web applications in the past 20 years. He pointed out that with the widespread use of P2P (Swarm) technology from 2000, network management became simplified and the robustness of the network applications improved greatly. However, the percentage of internet traffic of P2P has been declining since 2007. He analyzed characteristics of streaming video and brought forward some ideas about combination of streaming video and Swarm. Finally, he made a suggestion that is to pay more attention to the Swarm in the future research.
Dr. John C. S. Lui made an academic discussion with students and teachers. At the first part, he suggested that in order to obtain excellent scientific research achievement, the graduate students should draw up a schedule and strictly enforced it. Then, he introduced his research progress on Network Economics and Mobile Cloud Storage System.
Don Towsley, professor of the University of Massachusetts in the US, is ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow. His main research direction is modeling network performance. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and on the editorial boards of Journal of the ACM and IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications. He has received a number of academic awards including 2007 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, 2008 ACM SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award, 2012 IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award and so on.
John C. S. Lui, professor of Chinese University of Hong Kong, is ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow and Croucher Senior Research Fellow. His main research interests are network security, network economics and large scale distribution system. He serves as an editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Awards he has received are CUHK Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award, IFIP WG 7.3 Performance 2005 and IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2006 Best Student Paper Awards, et cetera.
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