From f8017f5a11e5a8cdff808017a4150ed33ac48aa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cameron Dale Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 17:03:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add the travel grant submission. --- docs/abstract/grant_recommendation.txt | 26 ++++++ docs/abstract/travel_grant.txt | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 141 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/abstract/grant_recommendation.txt create mode 100644 docs/abstract/travel_grant.txt diff --git a/docs/abstract/grant_recommendation.txt b/docs/abstract/grant_recommendation.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a361dde --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/abstract/grant_recommendation.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +### Applicant ### + +Cameron Dale +Master's Student +Department of Computing Science +Simon Fraser University +Burnaby, BC, Canada +camerond@cs.sfu.ca +http://www.camrdale.org + +Senior Supervisor: Dr. Jiangchuan Liu + +I confirm that the student is a Master's candidate in good standing. + +### Benefits of Attending ### + + + +### Strengths and Potential Contributions ### + + + +### Funding Status ### + + diff --git a/docs/abstract/travel_grant.txt b/docs/abstract/travel_grant.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..646c7a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/abstract/travel_grant.txt @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +### Applicant ### + +Cameron Dale +Master's Student +Department of Computing Science +Simon Fraser University +Burnaby, BC, Canada +camerond@cs.sfu.ca +http://www.camrdale.org + +Senior Supervisor: Dr. Jiangchuan Liu + +I am not eligible for US- or Euro-NF partner-based program or other +travel funding. + +### Research Interests ### + +My current research is focussed mainly on BitTorrent. One aspect I have +studied is the effectiveness of the rarest-first policy to evenly +distribute pieces of the download throughout the peers. I have found +that the policy is mostly effective at maintaining a near-optimal piece +population distribution, though there are some areas for improvement. + +I have also examined the different network topologies formed between +peers in a BitTorrent swarm. Some of the networks I have found to have +scale-free behaviour, verifying the resilience of the swarm to the +failures and departures that are common in all peer-to-peer networking +scenarios. Others that were previously thought to have small-world +characteristics, I have found to contain very little clustering. I have +therefore designed an enhancement to the BitTorrent tracker to introduce +clustering and create a small-world from the BitTorrent swarm, which +should improve the effectiveness of the BitTorrent protocol at +distributing the download to peers. + +In collaboration with another student, Xu Cheng, we have studied the +video sharing site YouTube. This new type of video distribution has not +seen much research yet, and we find some interesting differences between +it and traditional video distribution. My work focussed mostly on the +social networking aspect of YouTube, which is unique among video sharing +sites. The results showed that YouTube videos form a small-world +network, which suggests that videos are strongly correlated with each +other. This feature can be used to develop interesting caching or +peer-to-peer distribution strategies for videos. + +### Accomplishments ### + +Degrees: + +Bachelor of Science, major in Honors Applied Physics, minor in Computing +Science, Simon Fraser University, 2000 + +Awards: + +$17,500 NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship M, 2007 + +Publications: + +C. Dale, J. Liu, J. Peters, B. Li, "Evolution and Enhancement of +BitTorrent Network Topologies", IEEE IWQoS, University of Twente, +Netherlands, June 2-4, 2008. + +X. Cheng, C. Dale, J. Liu, "Understanding the Characteristics of +Internet Short Video Sharing: YouTube as a Case Study", IEEE IWQoS, +University of Twente, Netherlands, June 2-4, 2008. + +C. Dale, J. Liu, "A Measurement Study of Piece Population in +BitTorrent", Proc. IEEE Globecom, Washington, DC, USA, November 26-30, +2007. + +X.K. Chen, R. Wiersma, C.X. Wang, O.J. Pitts, C. Dale, C.R. Bolognesi, +S.P. Watkins, "Local vibrational modes of carbon in GaSb and GaAsSb", +Applied Physics Letters, 80, 1942 (2002). + +S.P. Watkins, O. Pitts, C. Dale, X.G.Xu, M. Dvorak, N. Matine, and C.R. +Bolognesi, "Heavily carbon-doped GaAsSb grown on InP for HBT +applications", Journal of Crystal Growth, 221, 59 (2000). + +### Plans for Future Research ### + +Using my previous work on BitTorrent as a foundation, I am currently +working on a new peer-to-peer download system for distributors of free +content (mostly software packages) over the web. The system uses a +Distributed Hash Table to support downloading the individual content +files from peers, which reduces the strain on the network of mirrors +that is usually required to support the downloads. This work includes +implementing a new download client for software packages of Debian-based +systems called apt-p2p. + +My plans are to complete the work on the design of the system, and the +implementation and deployment of the client. I will then be analyzing +and improving both, to determine their effectiveness at solving this +problem and to make them suitable for any free content distributors to +use. + +Finally, I will be preparing and defending my thesis. + +### Courses ### + +Undergraduate GPA: 3.92 + +Graduate Courses: +CMPT 705: Design and Analysis of Computing Algorithms A +CMPT 740: Database Systems A- +CMPT 765: Computer Networks A+ +CMPT 816: Theory of Communication Networks A+ +CMPT 880: Special Topics: Multimedia & Sensor Networking A+ + +### Expenses ### + +Registration: $350 +Travel (driving): $ 60 +Lodging (4 nights): $414 +Meals: $100 +------------------- ---- +Total $924 -- 2.39.5