Padma Mundur
UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park
 
Brief Bio
Padma Mundur is a member of the research faculty at UMIACS. Prior to joining UMD, she was on the faculty of University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), CSEE Department. Padma got her Ph.D. in Information Technology from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA in May 2000.  She received an M.E. in Systems Engineering from University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA in 1990. Prior to GMU, she worked at Georgetown University Medical Center. She also has a Masters in Industrial Management (Specialization: Operations Research) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Mundur's research in the last few years has focused on network modeling and protocol design, multimedia networking & video server design, mobile multimedia, distributed systems, and analytical resource allocation and performance models. Her professional activities include

o       Member of the editorial board for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Journal

o       Session Organizer for Communication Networks Simulation in WSC 2006

o       Invited Talk at University of Delaware, Georgetown University, and others

o       Program Committee member for VTC 2008 (Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks), ICC 2008 (Wireless Networking), GLOBECOM 2008, ICME 2007, GLOBECOM 2007, ICDCS 2006, ICME 2005, WirelessCom 2005, ICDCS 2004, ICME 2004, Trusted Internet Workshop 2003, 2004 (in conjunction with HiPC)

o       Guest Editor of Journal of High Speed Networks(JHSN) Special Issue on Wired and Wireless Multimedia 2002

o       NSF panel reviewer; reviewer for Research Council of Norway

o       Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, TPDS, TKDE, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Information Systems, IEEE Multimedia, JHSN

o       Session chair and presenter at MILCOM'08, SECON'08, GLOBECOM'07, MILCOM’06, MSWiM’06, ICC'04, DMS'03, ICME'03, PCM'02, IMSA'00, CNDS'99, ICMCS'99, IPCCC'98 

o       Appeared on a poster distributed nationally to all middle schools as part of an NAE initiative called the EngineerGirl! designed to promote young girls’ interest in Science and Engineering 


 

Research

Currently,  Padma is working on a research project funded by the Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences (LTS) on the topic of  Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs). These networks are also referred to as challenged networks because of the difficulty in implementing TCP/IP protocols in these types of networks; the complication arises out of  the absence of end-to-end path for routing and other purposes due to intermittent connections within the network. The specific focus of the research project is to design and implement new routing algorithms and protocols for DTNs.  Both simulation and analytical approaches are used to study the performance of the proposed algorithms. Many of the recent publications linked below provide more details of this research work.  

Virtual MeshTest Testbed Project:  This project deals with building a hybrid testbed for evaluating a host of applications for DTNs. We are planning to use tools like Emulab for emulating the network environment, virtualization tools like Xen for scalability and node image migration, and an actual wireless testbed for evaluating node interactions. The Team consists of researchers Brenton Walker(LTS), Padma Mundur(UMIACS), Matt Seligman (LTS), and GRAs Ginnah Lee, Kun Lin, and Dongwoon Hahn. An early publication of the plan for the testbed is here (ExtremeCom 2009). 

Selected Papers (For a full publications list refer to CV)


Contact Information                                                                                           


Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) 
University of Maryland
A. V. Williams Building

College Park, Maryland 20742 

Email:   pmundur at umiacs dot umd dot edu 

url:        www.umiacs.umd.edu/~pmundur

Tel:       (301) 405-1652 

Fax:      (301) 314-9658

Office:   Room 4451, A. V. Williams Building