Publications

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Ubiquitous storage

• Delay tolerant collaborations among campus-wide wireless users, Xuwen Yu and Surendar Chandra. In IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Symposium (INFOCOM '08), April 14, 2008, Phoenix, AZ (PDF)
• Campus-wide asynchronous lecture distribution using wireless laptops, Xuwen Yu and Surendar Chandra. In ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN '08), January 30-31, San Jose, CA (PDF)
• Automated Storage Reclamation Using Temporal Importance Annotations, Surendar Chandra, Ashish Gehani and Xuwen Yu. In the 27th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2007), June 25-29, 2007, Toronto, Canada (PDF, )
• Share with Thy Neighbors, Surendar Chandra and Xuwen Yu. In ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN'07), January 28 - February 1, 2007, San Jose, CA (PDF, Official )

• Diamonds are forever, files are not, Surendar Chandra, Ashish Gehani and Xuwen Yu. Refereed Work-In-Progress in USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technolgoies (FAST '07), February 14 - February 16, 2007, San Jose, CA (PDF, Slides, Official)

Secure Ubiquitous Storage

• Parameterizing Access Control for Heterogeneous Peer-to-Peer Applications, Ashish Gehani and Surendar Chandra. In 3rd IEEE International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SECURECOMM'07), September 17-21, 2007, Nice, France (PDF)
• PAST: Probabilistic Authentication of Sensor Timestamps, Ashish Gehani and Surendar Chandra. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), IEEE Computer Society, December 11-15, 2006, Miami, FL (PDF, )
• Augmenting Storage with an Intrusion Response Primitive to Ensure the Security of Critical Data, Ashish Gehani, Surendar Chandra and Gershon Kedem. ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS'06), March 21-24, 2006, Taipei, Taiwan (PDF, )

Resource management in peer computing systems

• Contemporary Operating Systems are not ready for Peer Computing: Peer systems should be treated as second class citizens, Surendar Chandra. Refereed poster in ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP '07), October 14-17, 2007, Stevenson, WA (PDF, Poster-PDF)
• Revisiting multimedia streaming in mobile ad hoc networks, Peng Xue and Surendar Chandra. ACM Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV '06), May 22–23, 2006, Newport, Rhode Island (PDF)

Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems

• On the need for query-centric unstructured peer-to-peer overlays, William Acosta and Surendar Chandra. In IEEE Fifth International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HotP2P '08), April 18, 2008, Miami, FL (PDF)
• Exploiting the Properties of Query Workload and File Name Distributions to Improve P2P Synopsis-based Searches, William Acosta and Surendar Chandra. In IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Symposium (INFOCOM '08), April 14, 2008, Phoenix, AZ (PDF)
• Understanding the Practical Limits of the Gnutella P2P System: An Analysis of Query Terms and Object Name Distributions, William Acosta and Surendar Chandra. In ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN '08), January 30-31, San Jose, CA (PDF)
• Improving Search Using a Fault-Tolerant Overlay in Unstructured P2P Systems, William Acosta and Surendar Chandra. In IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'07), Sep 10-14, 2007, XiAn, China (PDF, Official)
• Trace Driven Analysis of the Long Term Evolution of Gnutella Peer-to-Peer Traffic, William Acosta and Surendar Chandra. In the eighth Passive and Active Measurement conference (PAM 2007), April 5 - 6, 2007, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium (PDF, Official)

• Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks - Next Generation of Performance and Reliability, William Acosta and Surendar Chandra. Refereed poster, IEEE INFOCOM 2005 (PDF)

Energy Aware Streaming Multimedia

• A Client-side Statistical Prediction Scheme for Energy Aware Multimedia Data Streaming, Yong Wei, Suchendra M. Bhandarkar and Surendar Chandra. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Volume 8, Issue 4, Aug. 2006 (PDF, Official)
• Dynamic, Power-Aware Scheduling for Mobile Clients Using a Transparent Proxy, Michael Gundlach, Sarah Doster, Haijin Yan, David K. Lowenthal, Scott A. Watterson, Surendar Chandra. In International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'04), 2004 (PDF, )
• A Statistical Prediction-based Scheme for Energy Aware Multimedia Data Streaming, Yong Wei, Surendar Chandra and Suchendra M. Bhandarkar. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2004), March 21-15, 2004, Atlanta, GA (PDF, Official)
• Energy Conservation in Ad Hoc Multimedia Networks using Traffic-Shaping Mechanisms, Surendar Chandra. ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking '04 - (MMCN '04), January, 2004 (PDF, Official).
• Wireless Network Interface Energy Consumption: Implications for Popular Streaming Formats, Surendar Chandra. ACM Multimedia Systems Journal 9(2), Springer-Verlag, August, 2003(PDF, )
• Application-specific network management for energy-aware streaming of popular multimedia formats, Surendar Chandra and Amin Vahdat. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, June 2002 PS HTML Official Version.
• Wireless Network Interface Energy Consumption Implications of Popular Streaming Formats, Surendar Chandra. In ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking 2002 (MMCN'02), January 2002 (PDF, Official). Also available as UGA Computer Science TR CS 01-001 PS.
• Managing the Storage and Battery Resources in an Image Capture Device (Digital Camera) using Dynamic Transcoding, Surendar Chandra, Carla Schlatter Ellis and Amin Vahdat. In the Third ACM International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM'00) (in conjunction with Mobicom), August 11, 2000. (PDF, )

Quality Aware (Image) Transcoding

• The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing - Chapter: Content Adaptation and Transcoding, Surendar Chandra, CRC Press, Sep 2004 (Amazon)
• Transcoding Characteristics of Web Images, Surendar Chandra, Ashish Gehani, Carla Schlatter Ellis and Amin Vahdat, In ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking 2001 (MMCN'01), January 2001 PDF, Official.
• Application-Level Differentiated Multimedia Web Services Using Quality Aware Transcoding, Surendar Chandra, Carla Schlatter Ellis and Amin Vahdat, In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Special Issue on QOS in the Internet, Vol 18, No 12, Dec 2000. PDF
• Managing the Storage and Battery Resources in an Image Capture Device (Digital Camera) using Dynamic Transcoding, Surendar Chandra, Carla Schlatter Ellis and Amin Vahdat, In the Third ACM International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM'00), August 11, 2000 ()
• Differentiated Multimedia Web Services Using Quality Aware Transcoding, Surendar Chandra, Carla Schlatter Ellis, and Amin Vahdat, In IEEE INFOCOM 2000 - Nineteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer And Communications Societies, Mar 2000. (PDF, Official Version)
• JPEG Compression Metric as a Quality Aware Image Transcoding, Surendar Chandra and Carla Schlatter Ellis. In Second Usenix Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '99), Oct 12, 1999. PDF, Official Version.
• Multimedia Web Services for Mobile Clients Using Quality Aware Transcoding, Surendar Chandra, Carla Schlatter Ellis, and Amin Vahdat. In the Second ACM International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM'99), August 20, 1999. PDF,

• Differentiated Quality of Service Through Quality Aware Transformation of Web Content, Surendar Chandra, Carla Schlatter Ellis and Amin Vahdat. Refereed poster in 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Dec 1999.Powerpoint, PDF,

Potpourri

• Do Nintendo handhelds play nice? An analysis of its wireless behavior, Adam Lusch, Adele Fleury and Surendar Chandra. In 6th ACM Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (Netgames '07), September 19-20, Melbourne, Australia (PDF, , video)
• Mosaicing videos to stream over multiple independent channels, Chris Boehnen, Allison Regier, Deborah Thomas, Surendar Chandra and Patrick Flynn. In the 17th ACM workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio & Video (NOSSDAV '07), June 4-5, 2007, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA (PDF)
• Thread Migration to Improve Synchronization Performance, Srinivas Sridharan, Brett Keck, Richard C. Murphy, Surendar Chandra and Peter M. Kogge . In IEEE/ACM Workshop on Operating System Interference In High Performance Applications (OSIHPA '06), (held in conjunction with PACT '06), September 15, 2006, Seattle, WA (PDF)
• Palmist: A tool to log Palm system activity, Raghunath Gannamaraju and Surendar Chandra. In IEEE Workshop on Workload Characterization (WWC4) (in conjunction with IEEE Micro 34), December, 2001 (PS, )
• Adaptive Resource Management, Craig E. Wills and Surendar Chandra. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), January 18-20, 1995. (PS )

• Wireless Steath Multicast: Bandwidth Conservation for Last-Mile Wireless Clients, David Salyers, Xiaolong Li, Aaron Striegel, Surendar Chandra. Refereed poster IEEE Infocom 2005
• Making Sense of Multiple Technologies: Book review, Surendar Chandra. IEEE Multimedia, Vol 9, No 2, pages 77--87, April 2002 ()

Education related

• Lecture video capture for the masses, Surendar Chandra. In ACM 12th Annual conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (iTiCSE 2007), June 25 - 27, 2007, Dundee, Scotland (PDF, )
• Beacond: A Peer-to-Peer System to Teach Ubiquitous Computing, Surendar Chandra. ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), February, 2003 PDF )
• Netcp - A Project Environment for an Undergraduate Computer Networks Course., David Finkel and Surendar Chandra. In ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) , March 10-11, 1994. [Software available here ] PS,