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 finding end-to-end solutions to multimedia data management; from servers and end-systems architecture to quality-of-service issues on the networks. Recently, she has expanded her research focus to include Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), a project funded by the Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences (LTS). 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 on April 11 (Host: Professor Adarsh Sethi)

o       Program Committee member for ICME 2007, Globecom 2007, ICDCS 2006, ICME 2005, WirelessCom05, ICDCS 2004, ICME 2004,  Trusted Internet Workshop '03,'04 (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 IPCCC'98, ICMCS'99, CNDS'99, IMSA'00, PCM'02, ICME'03, DMS'03, ICC'04, MSWiM’06, MILCOM’06

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

 

Upcoming Activities

o       Invited to the TPC for VTC 2008 Spring, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

o       Invited to the TPC for ICC 2008, Wireless Networking

o       Invited to the TPC for ICME 2007

o       Invited to the TPC for GLOBECOM 2007, Wireless Networking


Research
Primary research interests include network modeling and protocol design, multimedia networking & video server design, mobile multimedia, distributed systems, and analytical resource allocation and performance models.


Publications

 

DTN Papers

  • M. Seligman, K. Fall, and P. Mundur, “Storage Routing for DTN Congestion Control,” accepted for publication in Journal on Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing, Special Issue on Disruption Tolerant Networking for Mobile or Sensor Networks, January 2007.
  • P. Mundur, M. Seligman, and S. Lee, "Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks using Storage Domains," under review for a journal, November 2006. UMD Tech Report UMIACS-TR-2007-01 http://hdl.handle.net/1903/4024
  • P. Mundur, S. Lee, and M. Seligman, "Routing for Data Delivery in Dynamic Networks,"  Proc. of IEEE MILCOM, October 23-25, 2006, Washington DC. pdf
  • P. Mundur, S. Lee, and M. Seligman, "Routing in Intermittent Network Topologies,"  Proc. of IEEE/ACM MSWiM, October 3-6, 2006, Torremolinos, Spain. pdf
  • M. Seligman, K. Fall, and P. Mundur, "Alternative Custodians for Congestion Control in Delay Tolerant Networks," SIGCOMM Workshop CHANTS, September 2006, Pisa, Italy. pdf


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