Vinod Vokkarane

Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

  Contact:

  Office: Ball Hall 409
  Phone: 978-934-3345
  Fax:  978-934-3027
  Email: vinod_vokkarane at uml.edu

My Google Scholar Page.

Symposium Co-Chair, ICNC 2018, Optical and Grid Symposium, Maui, March 2018.

TPC Co-Chair, 38th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2017, NJIT Sep. 2017.

General Co-Chair, 10th IEEE ANTS 2016, Bangalore, India, Nov 6-9, 2016.

Invited Talk, IEEE Greencomm 2016 (Online), Nov 16, 2016 (PPT).

Biography

Dr. Vinod M. Vokkarane is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth from 2004 to 2013. He was also a Visiting Scientist at the Claude E. Shannon Communication and Network Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2011 to 2014. He received the B.E. degree with Honors in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Mysore, India in 1999, the M.S. and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2001 and 2004, respectively. His primary areas of research include design and analysis of architectures and protocols for ultra-high speed networks, grid and cloud networks, and green networking. He has published more than 160 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He is the recipient of the UMass Dartmouth Scholar of the Year Award 2011, the UMass Dartmouth Chancellor's Innovation in Teaching Award 2010-11, the University of Texas at Dallas Computer Science Dissertation of the Year Award 2003-04, and the Texas Telecommunication Engineering Consortium Fellowship 2002-03. Dr. Vokkarane is the co-author of a book, “Optical Burst Switched Networks,” Springer, 2005. He is currently on the Editorial Board of IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN) and Springer Photonic Network Communications Journal and has also served as an Editor of IEEE Communications Letters and Elsevier Journal of Optical Switching and Networking. He has co-authored several Best Paper Awards, including the IEEE GLOBECOM 2005, IEEE ANTS 2010, ONDM 2015, ONDM 2016, and IEEE ANTS 2016. He has served as the Technical Program Committee Chair for the Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) symposia at ICCCN 2007 and 2010, IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, IEEE ICC 2012, IEEE INFOCOM High-Speed Networks (HSN) workshop 2011, IEEE ANTS 2013, and IEEE ANTS 2014. He has served as the General Vice-Chair for IEEE ANTS 2015 and the General Co-chair for IEEE ANTS 2016. He is currently the TPC co-chair of 38th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2017 and Co-Chair of the ICNC 2018 Optical and Grid Symposium. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Teaching 

Spring 2017: EECE 4830/5830 Network Design: Principles, Protocols, and Applications (Blackboard Portal).

Fall 2016: EECE 4830/5830 Network Design: Principles, Protocols, and Applications.

Recent News 

  • Jan 2017: Four student journal papers accepted and published by IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communication and Networks (JOCN) in the last 4 months! Congratulations Yan Cui, Jeremy Plante, Pegah Afsharlar, Arash Deylamsalehi, and Juzi Zhao.
  • Jan 2017: Two papers accepted to IEEE ICC 2017 in Paris (May). Congratulations Jeremy, Juzi, and Anisha Joseph!
  • Jan 2017: Invited paper at ONDM 2017 in Budapest (May). Congratulations Juzi!
  • Jan 2017: Arash and Juzi papers pressented at ICNC 2017 in Santa Clara, CA.
  • Jan 2017: Yan Cui and Dylan Davis successfully defended their Ph.D. Dissertation Proposals. Congratulations!
  • Nov 2016: Invited talk at IEEE Greencomm 2016 (Online), Nov 16, 2016 (PPT).
  • Nov 2016: Pegah Afsharlar’s paper wins Best Paper Award at IEEE ANTS 2016, Bangalore, India.  Wins €200 from Springer!
  • Sep 2016: Dr. Vinod Vokkarane promoted to Full Professor (ECE Dept.).
  • May 2016: Pegah Afsharlar’s paper wins Top/Best Paper Award at ONDM 2016, Cartagena, Spain. Paper invited to IEEE/OSA JOCN special issue.
  • April 2016: Jeremy Plante wins BEST ECE Graduate Student Award for 2015-16. Congratulations!
  • Jan 2016: Jeremy Plante successfully defends his Ph.D. research proposal. Congratulations!
  • Dec 2015: Yan Cui, Jeremy Plante, and Juzi Zhao present papers at IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 in San Diego.
  • Sep 2015: Dr. Juzi Zhao (GWU) joins ACNL as a Post-doctoral Research Associate. Welcome!
  • Sep 2015: $1 Million NSF CCDNI grant awarded on Big-Data BioMedical Innovation. (PI). (1 Ph.D. and 1 Software Developer Position - Open)
  • Jun 2015: Dylan Davis presents his paper at IEEE ICC 2015 in London.
  • Jun 2015: Amir Zonouz successfully defends his final Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Zonouz!
  • May 2015: Dylan Davis's paper wins Best Paper Award at ONDM 2015 in Italy. Congratulations!
  • December 2014: Thilo Schöndienst successfully defends his final Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Dr. Schöndienst! 
  • Jan 2015: $1 Million Social-Science related NIJ grant (co-PI).

Older News 

Student News 

  • Congratulations to Joan Triay for getting his paper accepted @ IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
  • Congratulations to Arush Gadkar and Jeremy Plante for getting their paper accepted @ IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking.
  • Congratulations to Tim Entel and Arush Gadkar for getting their paper accepted @ IEEE GLOBEOM 2012.
  • Congratulations to Mark Boddie and Thilo Schoendienst for getting their paper accepted @ IEEE GREENCOM 2012.
  • Congratulations to Tim Entel, Jeremy Plante, Bharath Ramaprasad, Mark Boddie, and Arush Gadkar, for getting TWO papers accepted @ ONDM 2012.
  • Congratulations to Jeremy Plante, Bharath Ramaprasad, and Arush Gadkar, for getting TWO papers accepted @ IEEE ICNC 2012.
  • Congratulations to Jeremy Plante, Arush Gadkar, and Joan Triay for getting THREE papers accepted @ IEEE GLOBEOM 2011.
  • Congratulations to Neal Charbonneau for publishing his Master's project work on Multicast Advance Reservation in the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
  • Congratulations to Arush Gadkar, Neal Charbonneau, Jeremy Plante, Joan Triay, Derek Rousseau for getting THREE papers accepted @ ICCCN 2011.

Research 

  • Next-Generation Network Services: Advance Reservation, Anycast Service, Manycast Service.
  • Grid and Cloud Networking: Cloud/Grid Computing/Storage Networks, HPC, Big-Data Workflow - Scheduling, Optimization, and Survivability.
  • Green Networking: Environmental Impact Reduction of Networks, Green Grooming, and Blue-Green Survivability.
  • Wireless Networking: Sensor Networks, Reliability, Security, and Target Tracking.
  • High-Speed Networking: WDM, SLICE, Next-Generation Optical Networks, and High-speed TCP.
  • Resource Optimization: Tactical/Battlefield Resource Optimization and Safe Autonomous Fault Tolerant Environments.

Publications

Advanced Communication Networks Lab

Funded Projects

DOE PROPER: Parallel Resource-Optimized Provisioning of End-to-End Requests

NSF Coordinated Advance Reservation for Grid over Optical Networks (CARGONET)

NSF Bridging Reliability Analysis and Reality in Sensor Systems: Theories and Applications

DOE Coordinated Multi-Layer Multi-Domain Optical Network (COMMON)

NSF Service-Oriented Optical Networks (SOON)

NSF Teaching Computer Networks Through Simulation Experiments and Animation Library (Net-SEAL)

USMC Manycast Architecture for Service-Oriented Tactical Operations (MASCOT)

Professional Service

Associate Editor

  • Springer Photonic Network Communications Journal (2013- Present)
  • IEEE Communications Letters (2009-2012)
  • Elsevier Journal of Optical Switching and Networking (Guest Editor 2012)

Conference/Workshop Chair

  • TCP co-chair, IEEE ANTS 2014, Delhi, India, Dec. 2014
  • TCP co-chair, IEEE ANTS 2013, Chennai, India, Dec. 2013
  • Symposium Co-Chair, IEEE ICC 2012 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, Jun. 2012.
  • Symposium Chair, GLOBECOM 2011 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, Houston, TX, Dec. 2011.
  • TPC Co-Chair, IEEE INFOCOM HSN 2011 Workshop, Shangai, China.
  • Area Chair, IEEE ANTS 2010, Mumbai, India, Dec. 2010.
  • IEEE ICCCN 2010: 19th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Optical and Backbone Networks (OBN) Track, Zurich, Switzerland
  • GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks (GOBS) 2008, Gosier, Guadeloupe
  • IEEE ICCCN 2007: 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Optical Network Symposium, Honolulu, HI
  • IEEE/CreateNet WOBS 2005: Fifth International Workshop on Optical Burst/Packet Switching, Boston, MA

Organizing Committee

  • Publication Chair, IEEE ANTS 2012
  • Website Chair, LANMAN 2011
  • Publicity Chair, IEEE ANTS 2009, New Delhi, India
  • Publicity Chair, IEEE ICCCN 2008, St. Thomas, USVI
  • Student Travel Award Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Pheonix, AZ
  • Student Travel Award Chair, IEEE/CreateNet BROADNETS 2006, San Jose, CA

Technical Program Committee Member

  • 2014
    • IEEE ICC 2014 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium
    • IEEE GLOBECOM 2014
    • IEEE ANTS 2014
  • 2013
    • IEEE ICC 2013 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium
    • IEEE INFOCOM 2013
    • IEEE GLOBECOM 2013
    • IEEE ANTS 2013
    2012
    • IEEE ANTS 2012
    • IEEE GLOBECOM 2012
    • IEEE ICC 2012 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, Ottawa, Canada
    • IEEE INFOCOM 2012
    2011
    • IEEE ANTS 2011
    • IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, Houston, TX
    • IEEE ICCCN 2011 - Optical Networks for Grid and Cloud Computing, Maui, Hawaii
    • IEEE ICC 2011 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, Kyoto, Japan
    • IEEE INFOCOM High-Speed Networks (HSN) Workshop 2011, Shangai, China
    • IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shangai, China
  • 2010
    • IEEE ANTS 2010, Mumbai, India
    • IEEE ICCCN 2010, Optical and Backbone Networks (OBN) Track, Zurich, Switzerland
    • IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, Miami, Fl, USA
    • IEEE ICC 2010 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, Capetown, South Africa
    • IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA
  • 2009
    • IEEE ANTS 2009, New Delhi, India
    • IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, , Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    • IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 - Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    • IEEE ICCCN 2009: 18th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Optical Network Symposium, San Francisco, CA
    • IC3-2009: International Conference on Contemporary Computing, Noida, India
    • UC-Sec 2009 - International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing Security, Las Vegas, NV
    • BROADNETS 2009 - Optical Networking Symposium, Madrid, Spain
    • Ninth International IEEE/CreateNet Workshop on Optical Burst/Packet Switching (WOBS) 2009, Madrid, Spain
    • IEEE ICC 2009 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, Dresden, Germany
  • 2008
    • IEEE ANTS 2008, Mumbai, India
    • IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, New Orleans, LA
    • IEEE/CreateNet BROADNETS 2008 - Optical Networking Symposium, London, UK
    • Eight International IEEE/CreateNet Workshop on Optical Burst/Packet Switching (WOBS) 2008, London, UK
    • IEEE ICC 2008 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, Beijing, China
  • 2007
    • IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, Washington, DC
    • IEEE/CreateNet BROADNETS 2007 - Optical Networking Symposium, Raleigh, NC
    • Seventh International IEEE/CreateNet Workshop on Optical Burst/Packet Switching (WOBS) 2007, Raleigh, NC
    • IEEE ICC 2007 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, Glassgow, Scotland, UK
    • GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks (GOBS) 2007, Athens, Greece
    • First International Conference on Access Networks (Accessnets) 2007, Ottawa, CA
    • Second International Workshop on eSafety and Convergence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks 2007, Phoenix, AZ
  • 2006
    • IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 - Advanced Technologies and Protocols for Optical Networks Symposium, San Francisco, CA
    • Sixth International IEEE/CreateNet Workshop on Optical Burst/Packet Switching (WOBS) 2006, San Jose, CA
    • IEEE/CreateNet BROADNETS 2006 - Optical Networking Symposium, San Jose, CA
    • IEEE ICC 2006 - Optical Networks and Systems Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey
    • First International Conference on Access Networks (Accessnets) 2006, Athens, Greece
    • First International Workshop on eSafety and Convergence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks 2006, Phoenix, AZ
  • 2005
    • IEEE GLOBECOM 2005 - Photonic Technologies for Communications Symposium, St Louis, MO
    • IEEE/CreateNet BROADNETS 2005 - Optical Networking Symposium, Boston, MA
    • IEEE WirelessCom 2005 - Network Management Symposium, Maui, HA
    • IEEE ITCC 2005 - Wireless Ad Hoc/Sensor Nets and Network Security Symposium, Las Vegas, NV
  • 2004
    • BROADNETS 2004 - Third International Workshop on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS) 2004, San Jose, CA

Session Chair

  • IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, Optical Networking Symposium, Maimi, FL
  • IEEE ICCCN 2008, St. Thomas, VI
  • IEEE/CreateNet BROADNETS 2007, Raleigh, NC
  • IEEE ICCCN 2007, Honolulu, HI
  • IEEE/CreateNet WOBS 2006, San Jose, CA
  • IEEE GLOBECOM 2004, Optical Networking Symposium, Dallas, TX
  • IEEE GLOBECOM 2002, Optical Networking Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan

Referee/Reviewer

  • Journals: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking, IEEE/LEOS Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Optical Communications Magazine, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE/LEOS Photonics Communication Letters, SPIE/Kluwer Optical Network Magazine, Elsevier Computer Networks, and OSA Optics Express.

  • Conferences: IEEE ICC, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, SPIE OptiComm 2002-2003, IFIP Networking 2004, BroadNets, WOBS, and IEEE HPSR . Nedstat Basic