Krishna Kant

 

Office phone: (503)712-3997

Email: krishna.kant at intel.com

Home page: http://www.kkant.net

 

Mailing address: Krishna Kant, Intel Corporation, MS JF1-231, 2111 NE 25th Ave., Hillsboro, OR 97124

Citizenship: USA

 

Education:

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (1981).

M.S. in Elect. Communication Eng., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1977).

B.Tech. in Electrical Eng., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (1975).

 

Current Research Interests: Security and robustness issues in the Internet, Multilevel and coordinated power control in computer systems, Data center networking and resource management, Mathematical performance modeling.

 

Other expertise: Traffic characterization and congestion control, Low-level architectural modeling, Acceleration technologies (security, XML, TCP, etc.), Peer to Peer computing, Telecommunication networks.

 

Recent Work

1.      Robustness/security issues in Internet Infrastructure: The current work focuses on two sub-areas: (a) Improving inter-domain routing in the Internet under large scale internet failures, and (b) A meta-data channel (MDC) based approach to protecting internet infrastructure. On the first project we have demonstrated a number of simple and effective techniques for improving BGP performance, and on the latter devised a novel scheme to avoid harmful effects of DNS cache poisoning attacks. Further work focused on DNS security issues is currently underway and is funded by a 3-year NSF grant. Presented a 3-hour tutorial on large scale internet failures at DSN 2007.

2.      Platform performance and power modeling: Current work is focused on coordinated power control algorithms for platform components (primarily memory ranks and links).  Other recent work includes detailed performance modeling of servers, HW acceleration of network protocol processing, and study of HW memory compression in servers.

3.      Data Center Networking: Current work is focused on exploiting ultra-wideband radios (part of the emerging wireless USB standard) to accurately localize servers in a data center and exploit it for location based services. Other recent work includes developing protocol support for managing virtual clusters in utility data centers, collective congestion control for virtual clusters, and investigation of an advanced transport protocol called USTP for future data centers.

4.      Dynamic Data center Issues: Recent work focuses data center scale out virtualization issues including dynamic resource allocation at end points and in the network. We demonstrated a proof of concept focused on flexible auto-provisioning of systems based on a centralized repository of data, policies & triggers, and identified unique new capabilities.

5.      Traffic Characterization and control: Characterization of internet traffic in servers including both transactional and fractal properties. Related work includes feedback overload control in web servers. Also developed a comprehensive tool (Geist) for generating e-commerce traffic. Co-chaired two workshops on performance and architecture of internet servers.

6.      Peer to Peer Computing:  Recent work includes several papers on the taxonomy of peer to peer computing, random graph based analytic modeling of P2P networks and simulation based performance evaluation of P2P file-sharing networks. Also chaired a panel session on peer to peer computing networks at ICNP 2001, and presented two tutorials on peer-to-peer computing at Tools 2002 and Globecom 2003. Also developed a tool called SimP2 for studying peer-to-peer file sharing networks.

Recent Funded Grants:

  1. Cooperative Security mechanisms for DNS, NSF grant funded for July 2007-June 2010 (w/ UC/Davis).
  2. Improving Internet Security via Meta-Data Channel. Intel IT research grant for April 2005-March 2008 (w/ UC/Davis).
  3. Scalable software systems for Large Internet Servers. NSF grant funded for Jan 2004-Dec 2006 (w/ UC/Davis and UC/Riverside)
  4. Scalable data center transport. Intel Research grant funded for Sept 2004-sept 2005 under researcher-in-residence program for visit to UC/Davis.

Books:

1.   K. Kant, Introduction to Computer System Performance Evaluation, McGraw-Hill, 1992. A widely respected graduate level text on mathematical modeling of performance.

2.   K. Kant, Steady State Analysis of Stochastic Systems, Chapter 2, pp17--68, invited contribution in Handbook of Statistics, Vol 9, 1993, edited by C. R. Rao.

Patents:

An Error Monitoring Algorithm for Broadband Signaling Networks, Oct 1996, US Patent no 5487072. US Patent also received for a variant of this algorithm, Patent no 5563874, US patent no 7027460 on peer to peer TV.

Patents filed: Proactive link power control algorithm, coupled resource power control, coordinated memory rank power control.

Editorial board:

Electronic Commerce Research Journal, Computer Networks, Intl journal of communications systems.

Workshops:

Organized two workshops (with P. Mohapatra) on performance and architecture of internet servers in 2000 (PAWS’2000) and 2001 (PAWS’2001) in conjunction with ACM Sigmetrics 2001 in Cambridge, MA. 

Tools developed:

  1. Geist (Generator of e-commerce and internet traffic) available at http://www.kkant.net/geist
  2. SimP2 (Tool for evaluating performance of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks).
  3. DCLUE (Database cluster emulator) as tool for studying database cluster performance. Available at http://www.kkant.net/DCLUE

Recent program committees:

Globecom 2007, VHPC 2007, Networking 2004-2006, ICC 2006, Infocom 2004, SPECTS 2003-2007, WWW 2003, DSN 2003, Sigmetrics 2002

 

Current Employment (1997 – present):

Senior Performance Analysis Engineer, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel Corp, Hillsboro, OR. 

Mainstream R&D Areas:  I am currently working in “enterprise architecture & pathfinding group” whose charter is to examine technologies designed to be implemented in products some 3-5 years down the line. A significant part of my recent work is focused in designing new algorithms for power control of platform resources and detailed evaluation of their performance impact. Another research that I am currently pursuing is asset localization in data centers using wireless USB radios and it’s platform implementation issues. My related work in recent past has spanned various aspects of data centers including real-time resource management, network virtualization, high speed networking, advanced transport layer features, metering and monitoring in a virtualized environment, HW protocol acceleration, etc.

Research Collaboration: I work actively with many universities on several research fronts.  I have collaborated closely with University of California at Davis in the areas of robustness issues in the Internet and have several jointly funded projects with them. During 2004-5, I spent one year as a researcher in residence at UC/Davis with funding provided by Intel Research to study advanced transport features for data center networking. During this time, I also worked on issues related to the NSF grant #3 above that I had secured earlier along with UC/Davis. During this time I also initiated a new project on meta-data channel based security in the Internet and was successful in having it funded by Intel IT research. The work on these projects involved close supervision of two Ph.D. students. The Intel IT research grant work enabled me to write a more elaborate grant proposal on the subject that is currently funded by NSF (see #1 under grants above).  The research collaboration with UC/Davis along with advising of Ph.D. students is continuing. I have also been working closely with Southern Illinois University and advising a Ph.D. student there on the topic of UWB radio based asset localization in data centers. Since last summer, I have also been advising some CMU Ph.D. students on power control issues in computer systems. In addition, I am on the advisory committee of Center for Future Information Technology (CFIT) that funds and facilitates industry-academic collaborative research.

Past Work in Intel: One major theme of my work in Intel has been the detailed architectural modeling of server platforms from a variety of perspectives. These models typically include details of processor busses/links, memory pipeline, IO busses, network processing, etc. and have been used to assess impact of a variety of new HW capabilities on the performance of traditional server benchmarks such as TPC-C, TPC-H, SpecWeb 99/2005, etc. In particular, I have extensively studied HW acceleration of various sorts (e.g., TCP, XML, encryption, authentication, compression, etc.) I have also studied very detailed models of clustered database systems in order to assess the impact of inter-process communication latency on overall workload performance. I have also worked on a variety of other research/implementation projects during my career at Intel, including system architectures that keep memory and even cache contents in compressed form, Internet server traffic characterization in terms of self-similarity and transactional properties, peer to peer computing, network virtualization and utility computing, and have published extensively in these areas.

 

Past Employment History:

1991-1997: Senior Member of Technical Staff, Engineering, Performance, and Control department, Bellcore, Red Bank, NJ. 

R&D Areas: During my tenure at Bellcore, I worked on both the operations support system (OSS) and switching sides of the telecommunications business. On the OSS side, I examined issues relating to automatic provisioning of telephone service which requires interactions with dozens of database systems. I developed both mathematical and simulation models to study completion times for automated provisioning.

On the switching side, I examined a variety of issues relating to signaling associated with call management. In particular, I worked extensively on congestion control and link error monitoring in both narrow-band and broadband SS7 (signaling system No. 7) networks. I also exmined a variety of engineering issues relating to SS7, personal communication systems (PCS), ISDN, AIN (advanced intelligent network), impact of data connections on voice networks, etc. Much of this work was done in support of Bellcore’s generic requirements for US regional telecommunications networks and formed a part of those requirements.  During this time, I published extensively in the areas of congestion control, performance modeling and error monitoring.

 

1985-1990: Assistant (1985-1989) and then tenured associate professor of Computer Science at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 

Teaching/Research: Taught undergraduate courses in operating systems & databases which routinely enjoyed overflow enrollments. Developed and taught graduate courses in performance modeling, distributed systems, and fault-tolerant computing. Published and performed sponsored research (NSF, DoD) in computer system performance modeling and fault tolerant computing. Also wrote a highly regarded graduate text on mathematical performance modeling. Established and managed the first networked laboratory of SUN workstations at Penn State for research and teaching in networked systems.

1981-1984: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. 

Teaching/Research: Helped develop and taught undergraduate courses in digital circuits, compiler design, and operating systems. Designed and delivered graduate courses/seminars in fault-tolerant computing, operating systems, and software engineering. Carried out research in fault-tolerant software and related areas.

 

Other Teaching: As a graduate student I was involved in teaching a variety of courses. In particular, I successfully handled a graduate course in computer graphics and undergraduate courses in computer architecture and operating systems.

 

External Publications:

  1. K. Kant and A. Silberschatz, ``Error Propagation and Recovery in Concurrent Environments'', The Computer Journal, Vol 28, Nov 1985, pp466-473.
  2. K. Kant, ``Finding Interference between Rectangular Paths'', IEEE Trans. on Computers, Vol C-34, Nov 1985, pp 1045-1049.
  3. M.M Srinivasan and K. Kant, ``The File Allocation Problem: A Queuing Network Modeling Approach'', Computers and Operations Research, Vol 14, May 1987, pp349-361.
  4. K. Kant, ``Software Fault-Tolerance in Real-Time Computing Environments'', Information Sciences, Vol 42, Aug 1987, pp255-282.
  5. K. Kant, ``Performance Analysis of Hierarchical Ring Networks'', Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Local Area Networks,, pp95-108, Oct 1987.
  6. K. Kant, ``Modeling Interprocess Communication in Distributed Programs'', Proc. of International Workshop on Petri-Net and Performance Models,, Madison, Wisconsin, pp. 75-83, Aug 1987.
  7. K. Kant, ``Application Level Modeling of Parallel Machines'', Performance 88 Conference,, Santa Fe, NM, pp. 83-93, May 1988.
  8. Ravichandran and K. Kant, ``Fault Identification in Robust Data Structures''. Proc. of 19th Fault Tolerant Computing Symposium,, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 275-282, June 1989.
  9. M. Ghodsi and K. Kant, ``Performance Modeling of Concurrent Systems under Resource Constraints'', Parallel Computing 1989, pp 589-594, Elsevier Science publisher.
  10. K. Kant and F.C. Liaw, ``Modeling Parallel Programs Using Dynamic Task Graphs'', Proc. of the first IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing., Dallas, Texas, pp. 90-97, May 1989.
  11. K. Kant, ``Performance Analysis of Real-Time Software Supporting Fault-Tolerant Operation'', IEEE Transactions on Computers, 39(7), pp. 906-918, July 1990.
  12. K. Kant, ``Analysis and Synthesis of Generalized Task Graphs'', Proc. of the 2nd Conf. on parallel and distributed systems, Dallas, Texas, pp. 225-231, Dec 1990.
  13. M. Ghodsi and K. Kant, ``Analysis of Parallel Programs Running on Multiprocessor Systems'', Performance 90, Edinburgh, U.K., pp. 407-421, Dec 1990.
  14. M. Ghodsi and K. Kant, ``Performance Analysis of Parallel Search Algorithms on Multiprocessor Systems'', Performance Evaluation, 13(1), pp. 67-83, sept 1991.
  15. M. Ghodsi and K. Kant, ``Well-Formed Generalized Task Graphs'', Proc. of the 3rd symposium on parallel and distributed systems, Dallas, TX, pp. 344-351, Dec 1991.
  16. K. Kant, ``Analysis of Delayed Repair Policies in Manufacturing Systems'', presented at ORSA-TIMS conference, Nashville, TN, May 1991.
  17. K. Kant, ``MVA Approximation for Shortest-Job-Next Scheduling Discipline'', Performance Evaluation, Vol 14, March 1992.
  18. K. Kant and A. Ravichandran, ``Synthesizing Robust Data Structures: An Introduction'', IEEE Transactions on Computers,, 29(2), pp. 161-173, Feb 1990.
  19. K. Kant and A. Ravichandran, ``Synthesizing Robust Data Structures: Formal Approach'', Acta Informatica, 1992.
  20. Ravichandran and K. Kant, ``A General Approach to the Identification Compensated Faults in Robust Data Structures'', Information Science, 59(1), pp. 167-187, Jan 1992.
  21. D. Daly, K. Kant, Y-B. Lin, V. Mak, and D. Mok, ``COPS: A computer operations performance simulation system'', Proc of 26th Annual Simulation Symposium, Washington D.C., April 1993.
  22. K. Kant, ``Steady State Analysis of Stochastic Systems'', Chapter 2, pp17-68, in Handbook of Statistics, Vol 9, 1993, edited by C. R. Rao.
  23. K. Kant, ``Performance of Window Flow-Control Protocol under Errors'', April 1993, Bellcore (Telcordia) technical report.
  24. K. Kant, ``Sustainable CCS Error Rate and its Implications for Error Monitoring'', April 1993, Bellcore (Telcordia) technical report.
  25. K. Kant, ``Evaluation of Error Interval Monitoring Algorithm'', Sept 1993, Bellcore (Telcordia) technical report.
  26. K. Kant, ``Error Monitor Design for High Speed CCS Links'', Sept 1993, Bellcore (Telcordia) technical report.
  27. K. Kant, ``Estimating Transmit Congestion at Changeover Time in CCS Networks'', Sept 1993, Bellcore (Telcordia) technical report.
  28. V.T. Hou, K. Kant, V. Ramaswami and J.L. Wang, ``Error Monitoring Issues for Common Channel Signalling'', IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, vol 12, no 3, April 1994, pp 456-467.
  29. K. Kant, ``Performance of Internal Overload Controls in Large Switches'', 28th Annual Simulation Conference, Phoenix, AZ, April 1995, pp 228-237.
  30. K. Kant, ``Broadband IN Signalling and Control Architectures and Comparison with Industry directions'', Bellcore TR-3745, Nov 1995.
  31. K. Kant, ``Analysis of Delay Performance of ATM Signaling Links'', Proc of INFOCOM 95, Boston, MA, April 1995, pp 1146-1153.
  32. ``Generic Requirements for CCS Nodes Supporting ATM High-Speed Signalling Links'', GR-2878-CORE, Bellcore, Oct 1995.
  33. K. Kant, ``Analytic Modeling of SSCOP'', Proc of 3rd International conference on Telecommunication Systems, Nashville, TN, Feb 1995, 469-482.
  34. K. Kant and J.R. Dobbins, ``An Error Monitoring Algorithm for ATM Signaling Links'', Proc of Sixth IFIP Conference on Performance of Computer Networks, Istanbul, Turkey, Oct 1995, pp 367-381.
  35. K. Kant, ``A Simulation Study of BISUP Congestion Control Issues'', Dec 1995, Bellcore (Telcordia) technical report.
  36. K. Kant, ``Flow Control Mechanisms for SAAL Links'', Proc of International IFIP-IEEE Conference on Broadband Communications, Montreal, Canada, April 1996, pp 173-184.
  37. K. Kant, ``A Study of BISUP Call Processing Delay Objectives'', Proc of Globecom 96, London, UK, pp 1400-1404, Nov 1996.
  38. K. Kant, ``A unified global congestion control strategy for broadband signalling networks'', Jan 1997, accepted for ATM’97 international conference.
  39. K. Kant, ``Flow control issues in ATM signalling link deployment'', Proc. of 15th International Teletraffic Congress, Washington DC, pp 1219-1228, June 1997.
  40. K. Kant and L. Ong, ``Signaling in emerging telecommunications and data networks'', (Invited Article), Proceedings of IEEE, Oct 1997, pp1612-1621.
  41. K. Kant, ``Large Memory System Model for TPC-C Benchmark'', Sept 1997, Intel technical report.
  42. K. Kant and Y. Won, ``Server Capacity Planning for Web Traffic Workload'', IEEE trans. on knowledge and data engineering, Oct 1999, pp 731-747.
  43. K. Kant, ``On Aggregate Traffic Generation with Multifractal Properties'', Proceedings of GLOBECOM99, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp 1179-1183. (The link points to expanded version of the paper)
  44. K. Kant and Y. Won, ``Performance Impact of Uncached File Accesses in SPECweb99'', Proceedings of 2nd IEEE Workshop on workload characterization, Austin TX, Oct 1999. (Published by Kluver).
  45. P. Mohapatra, H. Thantry and K. Kant, “Characterization of bus transactions for SPECweb96 benchmark”, Proceedings of 2nd IEEE Workshop on workload characterization, Austin TX, Oct 1999. (Published by Kluver).
  46. K. Kant and C.R.M. Sundaram, ``A Server Performance Model for Static Web Workloads'', Proceedings of International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS 2000), April 2000.
  47. K. Kant, R. Iyer and P. Mohapatra, ``Architectural Impact of Secure Socket Layer on Internet Servers'', International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2000), Sept 2000, pp 7-14.
  48. V. Tewari, R. Iyer, and K. Kant, “Overload Control Mechanisms for Web Servers”, Performance and QoS of Next Generation Networks, Nagoya, Japan, Nov 2000, pp 225-244
  49. K. Kant, ``Invalidation and Writeback Model for a Symmetric Multiprocessor System'', Dec 2000, Intel technical report.
  50. K. Kant and P. Mohapatra, “Scalable Internet Servers: Issues and Challenges”, PAWS-2000 proceedings, Aug 2000.
  51. U. Vallemselty, P. Mohapatra, R. Iyer and K. Kant, "Improving Cache Performance of Network Intensive Workloads", Proc. of International Conference on Parallel Processing, Aug 2001.
  52. K. Kant and P. Mohapatra, “Current Research Trends in Internet Servers”, PAWS-2001 proceedings (Performance Evaluation Reviews, Vol. 29, no 2), Sept 2001, pp 5-7.
  53. K. Kant, V. Tewari, and R. Iyer, “Geist: A generator of e-commerce and internet server traffic”,  Proc. of ISPASS 2001, Nov 2001, pp 49-56.
  54. K. Kant and R. Iyer, “Compressibility Characteristics of Address/Data transfers in Commercial Workloads”, CAECW (Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads), Cambridge, MA, Feb 2002.
  55. K. Kant, V. Tewari and R. Iyer, “Performance Issues in Peer to peer file sharing”, Tutorial presented at Tools 2002 conference, London, UK, April 2002.
  56. K. Kant, R. Iyer and V. Tewari, “A performance model for peer to peer file-sharing services”, Accepted for WWW-11 poster session (May 2002).
  57. K. Kant, R. Iyer and V. Tewari, “A framework for classifying peer-to-peer Technologies”, 2nd IEEE/ACM Intl. Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, May 21-26, 2002, Berlin, Germany.
  58. K. Kant and M. Venkatachalam, “Modeling traffic nonstationarity in e-commerce servers”, Proc. of SPECTS 2002, San Deigo, CA, July 2002, pp 949-956.
  59. K. Kant and M. Venkatachalam, “Transactional Characterization of Front-end e-commerce Traffic”, Proc. of GLOBECOM 2002, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov 2002.
  60. K. Kant, “Performance Evaluation of Memory Compression Alternatives”, to be presented at CAECW (Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads), Feb 2003, Anaheim, CA.
  61. K. Kant, “An Analytic Model for Peer to Peer File Sharing Networks”, accepted for International Communications Conference, May 2003, Anchorage, AL.
  62. U. Vallemsetty, K. Kant and P. Mohapatra, “Characterization of E-commerce Traffic”, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, No 3, 2003, pp167-192.
  63. K. Kant, R. Iyer and V. Tewari, “Building scalable ad-hoc collaboration networks”, a tutorial presented at GLOBECOM, Dec 2003, San Francisco, CA.
  64. K. Kant and R. Iyer, “Modeling and simulation of ad-hoc/P2P file-sharing networks”, Proc. of  Tools 2003 (tool presentation).
  65. K. Kant and R. Iyer, “Design and Performance of Compressed Interconnects”, Proc. Of ICCD 2003, Oct 2003, San Francisco, CA.
  66. K. Kant, “TCP offload performance for front-end servers”, Proc. of GLOBECOM 2003, Dec 2003, San Francisco, CA.
  67. K. Kant, “Impact of inter-process communication latency on clustered database performance”, Proc of Networking 2004.
  68. K. Kant and P. Mohapatra, Guest Editors introduction to special Issue on Internet data centers, IEEE Computer, Nov 2004.
  69. K. Kant and N. Jani, “SCTP performance in Data Center Environments”, Proc. of SPECTS, July 2005, Philadelphia, PA.
  70. K. Kant and A. Sahoo, “Clustered DBMS Scalability under Unified Ethernet Fabric”, Proc. of ICPP, May 2005, Oslo, Norway
  71. K. Kant, A. Sahoo and N. Jani, “DCLUE: A Distributed Cluster Emulator”, to appear in IEICE Transactions, Special Issue on Parallel/Distributed Computing and Networking, 2006. Also appears in Proc. of 2005 Opnetwork, Washington DC, Aug 2005.
  72. K. Kant and R. Ramanujan, “Transport Layer Enhancements for Unified Ethernet in Data Centers”, Intel IDF presentation, San Francisco, CA, Aug 2005.
  73. K. Kant, “Application Centric Autonomic BW Control in Utility Computing”, in Sixth IEEE/ACM workshop on Grid Computing, Seattle, WA, Nov 2005.
  74. L. Luan, K.  Kant, P. Mohapatra and C.N. Chuah, “DoX: Domain name cross checking: An antidote for DNS cache poisoning”, Proc. of Intl conference on communications (ICC), Istanbul, June 2006.
  75. A. Sahoo, K.  Kant, and P. Mohapatra, “Characterization of BGP recovery time under massive internet failures”, Proc. of Intl conference on communications (ICC), Istanbul, June 2006.
  76. A. Sahoo, K.  Kant, and P. Mohapatra, “Improving BGP convergence delay for large scale failures”, Proc. of dependable systems and networks (DSN), June 2006.
  77. L. Luan, K. Kant, P. Mohapatra, C.N. Chuah, “A proxy view of quality of domain name service”, Proc of INFOCOM, Anchorage, AL, May 2007.
  78. A. Sahoo, K. Kant, P. Mohapatra, “Speculative Route Invalidation to Improve Performance of BGP under Large Scale Failures”, Proc. of ICCCN 2006, Oct 2006, Washington DC.
  79. A. Sahoo, K. Kant, P. Mohapatra, “BGP Convergence Delay under Large-Scale Failures: Characterization and Solutions”, submitted to IEEE/ACM trans. on networking.
  80. K.  Kant, “Virtual Link: An Enabler of Enterprise Utility Computing”, to appear in the proceedings of International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA), Sorrento, Italy, Dec 2006.
  81. A. Sahoo, K. Kant, P. Mohapatra, “Improving Packet Delivery Performance of BGP During Large-Scale Failures", Proc of Globecom 2007, Washington DC, Nov 2007.
  82. N. Udar, K. Kant, R. Viswanathan, D. Cheung, "Characterization of Ultra Wide Band Communications in Data Center Environments", Proc. of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-wideband, Singapore, Sept 2007, (a short version  also appears in Networking 2007.)
  83. K. Kant, “Towards a Virtualized Data Center Transport Protocol”, Proc. of 2008 INFOCOM workshop on High Speed Networks, Phoenix, AZ, April 2008,
  84. N. Udar, K. Kant, R. Viswanathan, "Localization of Servers in a Data Center Using Ultra wideband Radios", Proceedings of Networking 2008, Singapore, May 5-9, 2008.
  85. K. Kant, N. Udar, R. Viswanathan, “Enabling Location Based Services in Data Centers via Wireless USB Radios”, accepted for IEEE International Conference on Ultra-wideband, Hanover, Germany, Sept 2008.
  86. K. Kant, N. Udar, R. Viswanathan, “Localization and Location Based Services in Data Centers”, submitted to IEEE Network magazine.
  87. K. Kant and J. Alexander, "Coordinated power control of memory ranks", under preparation.

 

References: Available on request.