Rakesh Kumar
Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Polytechnic University
Six MetroTech Center
Brooklyn, NY 11201
email : rkumar.polytech@gmail.com
I graduated in Aug 06' and now i am with Bloomberg.
Research Interests
Modeling and Measurement of Distributed Systems; Design and Analysis of Algorithms; Networking in General.
Current Research Projects
P2P Networking Theory: A joint project between Polytechnic University, Columbia University, and the University of Massachusetts. Funded by National Science Foundation as an ITR-medium grant, beginning Fall 2003.
Advisors
Keith W. Ross and Shivendra Panwar
Publications
Conferences:
R. Kumar, Y. Liu and K.W. Ross, Stochastic Fluid Theory for P2P Streaming Systems, IEEE INFOCOM 2007.
R. Kumar and K.W. Ross, Optimal Peer-Assisted File Distribution: Single and Multi-Class Problems, submitted.
R. Kumar and K.W. Ross, Peer Assisted File Distribution: The Minimum Distribution Time, IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies, HOTWEB 2006.
R. Kumar, D. Yao, A. Bagchi, K.W. Ross, D. Rubenstein, Fluid Modeling of Pollution Proliferation in P2P Networks, ACM SIGMETRICS 2006.
J. Buford, R. Kumar, Analysis of Using Java CardTM for DRM Master Key Security, 2nd Workshop on DRM Impact on Consumer Communications, 2006.
J. Buford, R. Kumar, G. Perkins, Composition Trust Bindings in Pervasive Computing Service Composition, IEEE PERSEC 2006.
J. Liang, R. Kumar, Y. Xi, K.W. Ross, Pollution in P2P File Sharing Systems, IEEE INFOCOM 2005.
M. Adler, R. Kumar, K.W. Ross, D. Rubenstein, T. Suel, D. Yao, Optimal Peer Selection for P2P Downloading and Streaming, IEEE INFOCOM 2005.
R. Kumar and A.K.Gogoi, A Software Architecture for Fast Encoding of Voice Data in a Distributed Manner for VoIP Framework, International Conference on Information Technology, CIT 2001, India.
M. Adler, R. Kumar, K. W. Ross, D. Rubenstein, D. Turner, and D. Yao, Optimal Peer Selection in a Free Market Peer-Resource Economy, Second Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2004.
Journals:
J. Liang, R. Kumar, K.W. Ross, The FastTrack Overlay: A Measurement Study, Computer Networks Volume 50, Issue 6 , 13 April 2006, Pages 842-858, Overlay Distribution Structures and their Applications.
Technical Reports:
R. Kumar and K.W. Ross, Peer Assisted File Distribution: The Minimum Distribution Time, Technical Report, Feb 10, 2006.
R. Kumar, K.W. Ross, Deposit and Insurance Schemes for Non-Monitored P2P Service, Technical Report, 2005.
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Presentations
Micah Adler, Rakesh Kumar, Keith Ross, Dan Rubenstein, David Turner, David Yao, Optimal Peer Selection in a Free Market Peer-Resource Economy, presented at Second Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2004.
Micah Adler, Rakesh Kumar, Keith Ross, Dan Rubenstein, Torsten Suel, David Yao, Optimal Peer Selection for P2P Downloading and Streaming, presented at IEEE Infocom 2005, Miami, Florida, March 2005.
Services
Reviewer for: IEEE WCNC 2004, ACM SIGMETRICS, IEE Proc. Information Security, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Other Information
Ph.D (Polytechnic University) 2006; M.S (Polytechnic University), 2003; B.Tech (IIT Guwahati), 2002.
My Erdös number is 4, through Dan Rubenstein