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A/PROF RAJKUMAR BUYYA



Contact Details

Organization: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND READER
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Homepage: www.gridbus.org/~raj
Work: 8344 1344
Fax: 9348 1184
Room: 31
Level: 05
Building: 111-117 Barry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
To advance the state-of-the-art in Internet-based Distributed Computing Systems Grid Computing, Distributed Systems, High Performance Computing, Operating Systems Australia, India, United States of America, United Kingdom

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom Queen's University of Belfast Research
China Huazhong University of Science and Tech Exchange, Research
India Indian Institute of Technology Research
Brazil Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Research
France The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science Exchange, Research
Spain Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Exchange, Research
United States Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Exchange, Research
United States University of Southern California Exchange, Research
Slovenia University of Ljubljana Exchange, Research
United States Georgia State University Exchange, Research
India Anna University Exchange
India Satyam Computer Services Ltd. Research
India Hindustan Computers Limited Research
United States Microsoft Corporation Research
United States Sun Microsystems, Inc. Research
United Kingdom Cardiff University Research
Singapore National University of Singapore Exchange, Research
Germany Universitaet Bayreuth Exchange, Research
India Indian Institute of Science Research
United States California Institute of Technology Research
Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong Research, Teaching

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy Monash University 11-Dec-2002
Bachelor of Engineering University of Mysore 01-Jul-1992
Master of Engineering Bangalore University 02-Oct-1995

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Senior Member IEEE Computer Society 01-Jun-1999
Senior Member ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) 01-Jun-1999

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE), Australia and New Zealand Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution 2008 24-Jan-2008
Other (Award) IEEE Computer Society, USA Distinguished Service Award 19-May-2008
Prize The University of Melbourne, Australia Vice Chancellor's Knowledge Transfer Excellence (Commendation) Award 21-Nov-2007
Scholarship IEEE Computer Society, USA Richard Merwin Scholarship Award 01-Apr-2000
Medal Dharma Ratnakara Memorial Trust, India Gold Medal for Academic Excellence (securing the I Rank in B.E. Computer Science and Engineering), Mysore/Kuvempu University, Karnataka State, India 01-Aug-1992
Scholarship University Grant Commission (UGC), India GATE Fellowship 01-Dec-2005
Other (Award) 7th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2000) Contributions and Leadership Award 22-Dec-2000
Prize The University of Melbourne, Australia Excellence in Research Award, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2006. In recognition of outstanding contribution to R&D in computer science 01-May-2006

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Economic scheduling for efficient management of clusters and their cooperative federation Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
The development of data grids for high energy physics Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
Bioinformatics Chief Investigator VIC PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTING LTD APAC Programs (AUST PARTNERSHIPS FOR ADVANCED COMPUTING) 01/01/2004
ARC Research Network on intelligent sensors, sensor networks and information processing Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL ARC Networks 01/01/2004
THE UTILITY GRID PROJECT: AUTONOMIC AND UTILITY-ORIENTED GLOBAL GRIDS FOR POWERING EMERGING E-RESEARCH APPLICATIONS Chief Investigator DEPT OF INNOVATION INDUSTRY SCIENCE & RESEARCH,
DEPT OF EDUCATION SCIENCE & TRAINING
International Science Linkages (DEPT OF EDUCATION SCIENCE & TRAINING) 31/10/2006
QoS-based Scheduling of e-Research Application Workflows on Global Grids Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007
A Novel Software System for .NET-based Enterprise Grid Computing Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
MICROSOFT PTY LTD
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/07/2007
InterGrid: Peering Architecture and Policies for Internetworking Disparate Grids Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008
BIGNET - A DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK TESTBED Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2008
GRID PROGAMMING WITH COMPONENTS: AN ADVANCED COMPONENT PLATFORM FOR AN EFFECTIVE INVISIBLE GRID (GRIDCOMP) Chief Investigator ERCIM 6th Framework Progamme (EUROPEAN COMMISSION)

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
COLLABORATION AGREEMENT FOR THE UTILITY GRID PROJECT: AUTONOMIC AND UTILITY-ORIENTED GLOBAL GRIDS FOR POWERING EMERGING E-RESEARCH APPLICATIONS WITH RMIT Chief Investigator RMIT

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Books

  • Content Delivery Networks
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Book Chapters

  • A Taxonomy of CDNs
    Year: 2008
    Book: Content Delivery Networks
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  • Content delivery networks: State of the Art, Insights, and Imperatives
    Year: 2008
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  • Internetworking of CDNs
    Year: 2008
    Book: Content Delivery Networks
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  • Workflow Scheduling Algorithms for Grid Computing
    Year: 2008
    Book: Metaheuristics for Scheduling in Distributed Computing Environments
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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Journal Articles

  • A Service-Oriented Grid Environment for Integration of Distributed Kidney Models and Resources
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Concurrency and Computation-Practice and Experience
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 1095-1111
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  • A Toolkit for Modelling and Simulating Data Grids: An Extension to GridSim
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Concurrency and Computation-Practice and Experience
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 1591-1609
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  • A case for cooperative and incentive-based federation of distributed clusters
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Future Generation Computer Systems
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 280-295
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  • An SCP-based heuristic approach for scheduling distributed data-intensive applications on global grids
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
    Volume: 68
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 471-487
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  • Designing a Resource Broker for Heterogeneous Grids
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Software-Practice and Experience
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 793-825
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  • Gridscape II: An extensible grid monitoring portal architecture and its integration with Google Maps
    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 153-170
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  • InterGrid: a case for internetworking islands of Grids
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Concurrency and Computation-Practice and Experience
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 997-1024
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  • Market-oriented Grids and Utility Computing: The State-of-the-art and Future Directions
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Grid Computing
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 255-276
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  • Peer-to-Peer-Based Resource Discovery in Global Grids: A Tutorial
    Year: 2008
    Journal: IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 6-33
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  • RCT: A distributed tree for supporting efficient range and multi-attribute queries in grid computing
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Future Generation Computer Systems
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 631-643
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • An Autonomic Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Hosting Stateful Web Services


    Year: 2008
    Event name: CGRID 2008 - Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
    Page numbers: 548-553
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
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  • An Autonomic Workflow Management System for Global Grids


    Year: 2008
    Event name: CGRID 2008 - Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
    Page numbers: 548-553
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
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  • Managing Cancellations and No-shows of Reservations with Overbooking to Increase Resource Revenue


    Year: 2008
    Event name: CGRID 2008 - Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
    Page numbers: 267-276
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
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  • Scheduling of Scientific Workflows on Data Grids


    Year: 2008
    Event name: CGRID 2008 - Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
    Page numbers: 548-553
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
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  • A Decentralized and Cooperative Workflow Scheduling Algorithm
    Year: 2008
    Event name: CGRID 2008 - Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
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  • A Negotiation Mechanism for Advance Resource Reservations using the Alternate Offers Protocol
    Year: 2008
    Event name: IWQoS 2008 - 16th International Workshop on Quality of Service
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2008 16th International Workshop on Quality of Service
    Page numbers: 40-49
    Publisher: The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway, New Jersey)
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  • A pareto following variation operator for fast-converging multiobjective evolutionary algorithms
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Genetic And Evolutionary Computation Conference
    Conference Publication: Genetic And Evolutionary Computation Conference
    Page numbers: 721-728
    Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery(New York)
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  • Load and Proximity Aware Request-Redirection for Dynamic Load Distribution in Peering CDNs
    Year: 2008
    Event name: CoopIS 2008 - the 16th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
    Conference Publication: On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
    Volume: 5331
    Page numbers: 62-81
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(Berlin)
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  • Market-Oriented Cloud Computing: Vision, Hype, and Reality for Delivering IT Services as Computing Utilities
    Year: 2008
    Event name: HPCC 2008 - 10th IEEE International Conference on Performance Computing and Communications
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Performance Computing and Communications
    Page numbers: 5-13
    Publisher: IEEE Computer Society(Los Alamitos)
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  • Rescheduling Co-Allocation Requests based on Flexible Advance Reservations and Processor Remapping
    Year: 2008
    Event name: Grid 2008 - 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2008 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing