Shamit Patel

Research Assistant

Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
Baltimore County, MD 21250
Email: spatel22@cs.umbc.edu
Phone: (O) 410 455 6338 (H) 410 536 5980
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Research

I am a Master's student under Dr.Kalpakis.
My research involves , trying to understand the requirements and solutions for positions of data nodes in the network.We also look into the Adaptive data replication techniques and decision for optimal placements of replicas.

Spring 2001:

We looked into the algorithms of Reed and Nice tree for tree decomposition of the network represented by graphs. I used c/c++ to model the tree decompositions of internet backbone maps using LEDA class libraries.

Summer 2001:

I am currently looking into the role of Network attached storage devices/ Network attached peripherals and their underlying algorithms in the network. Interesting work going on at other places are: I am also currently looking into the data replication simulator built in Java developed in my lab.
I also developed a protoptype for Web Server Redirection. When a client issues a request for a file, request first goes to the server (obviously called Redirector). Redirector looks up its database and finds that the particular file request can be satisfied by Server A, and hence forwards the request for file F to Server A. Server A then sends the required file to the client. The servers storing files have capabilities to add/ delete file provided that they send the information to the Redirector. The constraints of problem was, Servers satisfying the requests were supposed to be non intelligent, hence use of servlets was strict no.
I have also started thinking about my Master's thesis. Hopefully, I should start working on it and finish the work in Fall 2001 itself.

Fall 2001:

I have obtained OPNET modeler and also Server's licence under university program of the company. I have developed a bare prototype for Network Attached Storage Device. I will be adding the functionalities of

Spring 2002

We developed a simulator for Network Attached storage devices in broadcast medium using Java. I also implemented a proof of concept by using the underlying concepts and algorithms to the Web Servers using Java Server Pages, Java and MySQL. For more details please download paper by clicking here. It was published in the Proceedings the 2002 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'02), July 14-18, 2002, San Diego, CA. pp. 736-743.

Summer 2002

Worked as an intern, developing an Email Marketing Software at Blue Sky Factory. The existing software was in Cold Fusion and SQL Server 7.0. We decided it might be a good idea to devlop the same software using open source development tools. Hence, it was ported to Java Server Pages (JSP) and MySQL as backend.

Fall 2002

I am currently a Teaching Assistant for CMSC 202 :Introduction to Computer Science II course for section 101 under Mr.Dennis Frey. My discussions are held on Tuesdays at 4:00 -4:50 pm at SS 206. My office hours are at 5:00pm - 8:00pm on Tuesdays at ECS334. I can be contacted during office hours by phone at x52862.