T. S. Eugene Ng Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering Rice University 3005 Duncan Hall, 6100 Main St., MS 132, Houston TX 77005-1892 Office: (713) 348-4389 Fax: (713) 348-5930

T. S. Eugene Ng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Rice University. He is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2005. Before joining Rice University, he received a B.S. in Computer Engineering with distinction and magna cum laude in 1996 from University of Washington, a M.S. in Computer Science in 1998 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2003 from Carnegie Mellon University. His current research interest lies in developing new network models, network architectures, and holistic networked systems that enable a robust and manageable global networked infrastructure for the future. Eugene grew up in Hong Kong and can never resist good "dim sum" or good soup. When he is not working, you are most likely to find him speeding down the road on his race bike.

Research

• Internet Geometry - Aims to develop geometric models of the Internet's crucial structural properties, much like distances between locations on the Earth can be represented compactly by their geometric longitudes and latitudes. Geometric models are inherently simple and scalable, and thus can enable a wide variety of scalable performance-aware protocols and applications.
  
  • Delay Space Synthesizer DS² - An Internet delay space synthesizer that can be used to synthesize Internet delay data at a large scale compactly while preserving important properties of the real Internet delay space.
  • Global Network Positioning (GNP) - Techniques to accurately model the complex Internet distance topology as a simple Euclidean metric space.
  • Network Positioning System (NPS) - An Internet-scale service that enables hosts to determine where they are in the Internet and how they relate to each other topologically. Network position information will be a powerful tool for "navigating" the complex Internet and will enable new distributed applications.
• Network Control and Management - Aims to develop the blueprint designs that will guide decision-makers in the construction of a next generation network that is dependable and secure; understandable to users and operators; and both economical and scalable.
• 100x100 - Clean slate redesign of Internet architecture.
• Tesseract - A 4D network control plane.
• Meta-Management System - BIOS for a network.
• Maestro - An operating platform that oversees a network and orchestrates network operations.
• EtherFuse - Making data center and enterprise networks dependable.
• COMPASS - The COMPASS project is developing a new sensor network architecture whose communications hierarchy is aligned with the information flow of its computations.
• End System Multicast - The ESM project is building a peer-to-peer overlay multicast system that aims to support large-scale overlay-based television on the Internet efficiently and robustly.

• Address Virtualization Enabling Service (AVES) - A network service to unify the naming and routing of heterogeneous IP, NAT-connected IP, and IPv6 hosts. I'm also interested in research related to IPv6 transition.
• REUNITE multicast routing - A unique multicast protocol in which forwarding is based on traditional unicast forwarding, thus it requires minimal multicast forwarding state in the network.
• Distributed cooperative caching for streaming multimedia - A system designed to handle static caching of streaming object segments and dynamically caching and sharing on-going streams.
• Packet fair queueing algorithms - Channel-condition Independent Fair Queueing (CIF-Q) algorithm for error-prone wireless cellular networks, Hierarchical Fair Service Curve (H-FSC) scheduling algorithm for flexible resource management and sharing.
• Darwin - A system that provides a set of resource management mechanisms to value-added network services. Related projects include VNS, a virtual private network service on CAIRN.

• COMP/ELEC 429 Introduction to Computer Networks (Spring 04, Spring 05, Spring 06, Spring 08)
  
• COMP/ELEC 529 Computer Network Protocols and Systems (Fall 04, Fall 05, Fall 06, Fall 07)
• COMP 620 Graduate Seminar in Distributed Computing (Spring 05, Fall 06, Fall 07, Spring 08)
  
• COMP 629 Graduate Seminar in Computer Networks (Spring 04)
  

• Technical program committee: SIGCOMM 2008, PRESTO 2008, NSDI 2008, IWQoS 2007, NSDI 2007, SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Network Management 2006 and 2007, INFOCOM 2005 and 2008, ICDCS 2005
  
• Organization committee: Technical program co-chair for Internet Network Management Workshop 2008, Poster program chair for SIGCOMM 2007
• Invited panelist: Future of the Internet, Business 4Site Conference 2004
• Recent invited talks:
  
• "Internet Delay Space", presented at DIMACS/DyDAn Workshop on Internet Tomography, 5/2008
• "Maestro: A New Architecture for Realizing and Managing Network Controls", presented at 21st Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '07), 11/2007
• "Towards an Operating Platform for Network Control Management", presented at PRESTO: Workshop on Programmable Routers for the Extensible Services of TOmorrow, 5/2007
• "A Meta-Management Architecture for Future Networks", presented at The IEEE 21st Annual Computer Communications Workshop, 2/2007
• "Measurement-Based Analysis, Modeling, and Synthesis of the Internet Delay Space for Large-Scale Simulation", presented at University of California, Berkeley, 4/2006
• "On Count-to-Infinity Induced Forwarding Loops in Ethernet Networks", presented at Cisco Systems, Inc., 4/2006
• "Internet Geometry", presented at University of Houston, 11/2005
• "Global Network Positioning'', presented at Swiss Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), 8/2003, and at Hewlett-Packard Labs, 3/2004