Kevin C. Almeroth

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Recent News

• Classes for Fall 2008:
  • CS 176A: Introduction to Computer Communication Networks
  • CS 595N: Graduate Seminar on Social Computing
  
  
• Links to research groups Kevin is leading or involved in:
  • Networking and Multimedia Systems Lab (NMSL)
  • CS's Next Generation Networking Group (NG^2)
  • CITS's Technology in Education (TIE) Initiative

• Journal/Conference Service
  • Kevin maintains the ICNP Archive Page.
  • Kevin is also Chair of the NOSSDAV Steering Committee.
  • Check out the Networking Conferences Statistics WWW Page
  
  
• Other News
  • Beware of our new PAIRwise Plagiarism Detection Systems!! (See the front page article)
  • I've been part of an effort to create a PhD Emphasis in Technology and Society. See the UCSB Press Release and the SB News Press Release.
  
  

• Current Biography

  Kevin C. Almeroth is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Associate Dean for Adancement and Planning in the College of Engineering at the University of California in Santa Barbara where his main research interests include computer networks and protocols, wireless networking, multicast communication, large-scale multimedia systems, and mobile applications. At UCSB, Dr. Almeroth is the Associate Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS), a founding faculty member of the Media Arts and Technology (MAT) Program, Technology Management Program (TMP), and the Computer Engineering (CE) Program. In the research community, Dr. Almeroth has authored more than 150 refereed papers. He is the chair of the Steering Committee for the ACM Network and System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV) workshop; on the Editorial Board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Network, ACM Computers in Entertainment, and ACM Computer Communications Review; has co-chaired a number of conferences and workshops including the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS), the International Workshop On Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee), ACM Sigcomm Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), the Network Group Communication (NGC) workshop, and the Global Internet Symposium; and has been on the program committee of numerous conferences. Dr. Almeroth is the former chair of the Internet2 Working Group on Multicast, and is active in several working groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). He also serves on the boards of directors and/or advisory boards of several startups. Dr. Almeroth has also served as an expert witness in a number of interesting patent cases. He is a Member of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

• Early Biography

  Kevin Almeroth received his B.S. (1992), M.S. (1994), and Ph.D. (1997) degrees in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. While at Georgia Tech, Kevin was advised by Mostafa H. Ammar who is a member of the Networking and Telecommunications Group which is part of the College of Computing.

  Kevin's dissertation title was "Networking and System Support for the Efficient, Scalable Delivery of Services in Interactive Multimedia Systems" and covered a range of topics including providing interactivity in video-on-demand (VoD) systems; resource allocation in large-scale video delivery systems; a study of the dynamics of multicast group membership in the Multicast Backbone (MBone); and exploration of new paradigms for video programming over the Internet.

• CS 176A: Introduction to Computer Communication Networks [Fall 1997] [Fall 1998] [Fall 2002] [Fall 2003] [Fall 2004] [Spring 2005] [Spring 2006] [Spring 2007] [Spring 2008] [Fall 2008]

• CS 176B: Network Computing [Winter 2000] [Winter 2001] [Winter 2002]

• CS 193: Internship in Industry -- List of student reports

• CS 276: Distributed Computing and Computer Networks [Winter 1999] [Spring 2000] [Fall 2002] [Fall 2005]

• CS 290F: Special Projects in Multimedia Networking [Fall 2004]

• CS 290I: Networking for Multimedia [Winter 1998] [Spring 1999]

• CS 595: Seminars (various) [Winter 1999] [Fall 1999] [Spring 2000] [Winter 2003] [Winter/Spring 2004] [Winter 2005] [Winter/Spring 2005]

• MAT 201B: Media Networks and Services [Fall 1999] [Fall 2000] [Fall 2001] [Fall 2003]

• Short course at ECI 2001: The Evolution of Advanced Networking Services: From the ARPAnet to Internet2

Contact information

Kevin Almeroth                              E-mail:  almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu
Department of Computer Science              Office:  2113, Engineering I
University of California                    Phone:   (805)893-2777
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110                Fax:     (805)893-8553