Hema Tahilramani Kaur

 

1822 Amelia Way Apt 5

Santa Clara, CA - 95050

Phone: 408 615 8763 (Home) 518 505 4101 (cell)

email: hema at networks dot ecse dot rpi dot edu

 

 


I have graduated from RPI with a PhD in December 2002. I worked with Prof. Kenneth S. Vastola and Prof. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman for my PhD Thesis. The title of my PhD dissertation was "Traffic-Sensitive Routing and Traffic Engineering". My research interests lie in the area of Performance modeling and analysis, routing issues in the Internet, traffic engineering, network management, protocol design, queueing networks and wireless networks.

 

My research was funded by two DARPA sponsored projects, "Network Management and Control Using Collaborative Online Simulation" and "Scalable Online Network Modeling and Simulation".

 

I worked on development of a Queueing Networks Anslysis Tool (QNAT) as a part of my Master's Thesis at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. A beta version of the QNAT can be downloaded from the QNAT website. My master's thesis advisors were Prof. Sanjay K. Bose and Prof. D. Manjunath.

 

I did my Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from Bhilai Institute of Technology (BIT), Durg, M.P. (now Chattisgarh), India.

 

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Publications and Presentations

 

  1. H. Tahilramani Kaur, ``BANANAS: A Framework for Connectionless Traffic Engineering in the Internet,'' presented at PERNET Seminar, San Francisco State University, CA, September 17, 2003.

 

  1. H. Tahilramani Kaur, S. Kalyanaraman, A. Weiss, S. Kanwar, A. Gandhi, ``BANANAS: An Evolutionary Framework for Explicit and Multipath Routing in the Internet,'' presented at Workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture (FDNA'03) in conjunction with ACM SIGCOMM 2003, Germany, August 2003.

 

  1. H. Tahilramani Kaur, T. Ye, S. Kalyanaraman, ``Outbound Load Balancing in BGP Using Online Simulation,'' under review, 2003.

 

  1. H. Tahilramani Kaur, T. Ye, S. Kalyanaraman, Kennth S. Vastola, ``Minimizing Packet Loss by Optimizing OSPF Weights Using On-line Simulation,'' to appear in proceedings of the 11th International IEEE/ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems. MASCOTS-2003, 2003.

 

  1. T. Ye, H. Tahilramani Kaur, S. Kalyanaraman, ``Online Simulation for Large-Scale Network Parameter Configuration,'' Under review in IEEE Transactions on Networking.

 

  1. S. Kalyanaraman, H. Tahilramani Kaur, ``A Connectionless Approach to Intra- and Inter-Domain Traffic Engineering,'' presented at 2nd New York Metro Area Networking Workshop, Columbia University, September 2002.

 

  1. S. Kalyanaraman, H. Tahilramani Kaur, T. Ye, M. Doshi, A. Gandhi, ``Load Balancing Traffic in a BGP Environment using On-line Simulation and Dynamic NAT Techniques,'' presented at Internet Statistics and Metrics Analysis (ISMA) workshop, December 2001.

 

  1. Y.Tao, D. Harrison, B.Sikdar, H. Tahilramani, B.Mo, J.Jiang, S. Kalyanaraman, B. Szymanski, and K. S. Vastola, ``Network Management and Control Using Collaborative On-line Simulation,'' in Proceedings of IEEE ICC, pp. 204-209, Helsinki, Finland, June 2001.

 

  1. H. Tahilramani Kaur, K. S. Vastola, ``Tuning Network Routing using Online Simulation,'' in Proceedings of SCS Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), Vancouver, Canada, 2000.

 

  1. H. Tahilramani Kaur, D. Manjunath, S. K. Bose, ``The Queuing Network Analysis Tool (QNAT),'' in proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, MASCOTS-2000, pp. 341-347, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2000.

 

  1. H. Tahilramani Kaur, D. Manjunath, S. K. Bose, ``Approximate analysis of Network of GE/GE/m/N Queues with Transfer Blocking,'' In proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation, MASCOTS-1999, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, 1999.

 

  1. D.Manjunath, D.M. Bhaskar, Hema Tahilramani, S. K. Bose, M.N. Umesh, ``QNAT: A graphical tool for the analysis of queuing networks,'' IEEE TENCON'98 International Conference, New Delhi, India, December 1998.

 

 


Personal Stuff

 

I was born and raised in the township of Bhilai, Chattisgarh, India. It is know for its iron and steel industry - Bhilai Steel Plant is the only producer of rail and heavy steel plates and major producer of structural steel in India.

 

I was born in a Hindu family, but am a Sikh now. I strongly believe in equality of all irrespective of caste, color, race, sex etc. Teachings of Sikh religion form the basis for my beliefs, principles and character. I am forever in love with my Gurus - from Guru Nanak Dev ji to Dhan Dhan Shri Guru Granth Sahib ji. I enjoy listening to Keertan - the glorious singing of Shabads (hymns) from Gurbani. My other interests include cooking, traveling - camping, going to sea beaches, enjoying the nature and doing community service.

 

My parents live in Dubai. I recently got married to Gurinder Singh in November 2002 and moved to California.