Welcome to my home page

Your quest for knowledge has brought you to a strange place...

Who I am, my professional and technical interests, some personal stuff.

Professional and Technical Interests

• Being Associate Professor of Telecommunications Engineering, and Director of the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures at Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia)

• Recent professional activities
• Organising or Technical committees for IEEE LCN 2008, ACM Multimedia 2008 (Systems track), NOSSDAV2008,  PAM2008, IMC 2007, IEEE LCN 2007, ATNAC 2006, NetGames 2006, NOSSDAV 2006, IEEE LCN 2006, IEEE ICON 2006, PAM 2006, NetGames 2005, IEEE Tencon 2005, SIGCHI ACE 2005, IEEE LCN 29 (2004) SIGCHI ACE 2004,  NetGames2004, GI&NGN2004, IEEE ICON2003, NetGames 2003, NetGames 2002
• Chair of Netgames 2007, and the SIGCOMM 2003 RIPQOS workshop
• Co-chair of First Australian Workshop on Network Support for Interactive Multimedia and Games (NSIM 2004)

• Anything to do with IP network infrastructure - performance, scalability, resilience and monitoring.
• I've had a particular interest in exploring the characteristics of next generation applications (such as real-time interactive games) and pondering their implications for IP access and backbone network architectures
  
  • Launching the GENIUS project (2002 - current)
  • "Networking and online games..." (a book, April 2006)
    
  • Releasing server-side mod(s) and post-analysis tool(s) for gathering Quake III Arena usage statistics (2001/2002)
  • Analysing the Quake III Arena server usage patterns (in 2001)

• Jotting down my thoughts and experiments

  • "Quality of Service in IP Networks" (a book, April 2000) (a review from 2002)
    
  • Re-vitalizing old (and new) PCs with FreeBSD

• Selected publications list

• Selected public public talks/presentations

• Some previous work history

Some personal stuff

• Books I've been reading
• An incomplete photo collection of friends and travels
• Cars I've enjoyed...
• I started in Melbourne (Australia), lived in New Jersey for a few years, moved to California (the Silicon Valley area, to be exact), and I'm now back in Melbourne. NJ is cold, Silicon Valley is stupidly expensive, and Melbourne is a long way from anywhere in the northern hemisphere. But I've liked something about each place I've been....
• I drink hot tea, I don't drink coffee. In the US I think Sam Adams is beer, and Budweiser is... not. Give me Guinness anytime I need a meal.
• Naturally, I pretend to know the difference between Coke and Pepsi
• For all those other questions, here's a site with lots of information on Australia