"Research in Distributed Systems, Wireless Networks, and Networks Security"

                            Mukesh Singhal
                     Department of Computer Science
                         University of Kentucky

Abstract:

The speaker will present some of the results in distributed systems, wireless 
mobile ad hoc networks, and computer networks security that he has obtained in 
the last two decades. Specifically, in distributed systems, he will present
results in global time and state, mutual exclusion, deadlocks, checkpointing
and failure recovery, performance modeling, and load balancing; in wireless 
mobile ad hoc networks, he will present research results that he has obtained 
recently to develop robust scalable, efficient routing protocols; and in 
computer networks security, he will present results on efficient techniques 
for aggregating multiple digital signatures using public-key cryptosystems 
based on linear feedback shift registers (LFSR).


                   Short Biography of Mukesh Singhal
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Mukesh Singhal is a Full Professor and Gartner Group Endowed Chair in
Network Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at The University 
of Kentucky, Lexington. From 1986 to 2001, he was a faculty in Computer and
Information Science at The Ohio State University. 

He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in  Electronics and Communication 
Engineering with high distinction from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, 
India, in 1980 and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of 
Maryland, College Park, in May 1986. His current research interests include 
distributed systems, wireless networks and mobile computing systems, computer 
and networks security, and performance evaluation. 

He has published over 200 refereed articles in these areas. He has directed 
24 Ph.D. dissertations and has supervised over 250 MS Theses/Projects. He has 
written four books titled ``Distributed Computing Systems", Cambridge 
University Press, 2008, ``Data and Computer Communications: Networking and 
Internetworking", CRC Press, 2001, ``Advanced Concepts in Operating Systems", 
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1994 and ``Readings in Distributed Computing Systems", 
IEEE Computer Society Press, 1993. He is a Fellow of IEEE. He is a recipient 
of 2003 IEEE Technical Achievement Award. He has served in the editorial board 
of "IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems", "IEEE Transactions 
on Knowledge and Data Management", and "IEEE Transactions on Computers". 
From 1998 to 2001, he served as the Program Director of Operating Systems and 
Compilers program at National Science Foundation.