Craig Russell

Principal Research Engineer

Contact

PO Box 76
Epping NSW 1710

Tel: 61 2 9372 4237
Fax: 61 2 9372 4490

Themes

• Broadband for Australia
• ASKAP

Projects

• CSIRO Rural Wireless Broadband Network (NGARA)
• ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder)
• ACBI (Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation)

Biography

I am a network engineer in the Wireless and Networking Technologies Laboratory of the CSIRO ICT Centre and am industry certified under the CCIE program of Cisco Systems (CCIE No. 25254). I am currently working as the network architect for a project that is developing a new wireless broadband system for rural Australia. In this role I am responsible for designing the end-to-end system architecture for the Ngara broadband wireless access and backhaul system demonstrators and lead a team of engineers and scientists in developing the MAC layer protocol for these systems. I also do network design and implementation for the Australian Square Kilometre Array (ASKAP) project with CSIRO Astronomical and Space Sciences (CASS).

Prior to joining CSIRO in 2002, I worked for a tier-2 telecommunications carrier (PowerTel) doing design and rollout of a national transmission network. Before that I worked for a software engineering company on a large networking project for a major utility.

I have design, implementation and operational experience in a wide range of advanced telecommunications equipment and protocols in both commercial and research environments. Particular areas of expertise include Ethernet switching, IP routing, IP multicast, IPv6, SDH transmission, ATM switching, optical networks and firewall configuration. I also have experience in microcode programming of network processors, UNIX/Linux system administration and implementation of fibre channel SANs.

My professional interest is the application of advanced Ethernet and IP-based technologies to specific industry domains, particularly those that will help Australian industries to be more competitive.

Academic Qualifications

1997	PhD (Applied Mathematics) Macquarie University
1992	BSc (Honours Class I, Applied Mathematics) University of Sydney
1988	BE (Mechanical) University of Sydney

Recent Professional Experience

2007-present	Principal Research Engineer, CSIRO ICT Centre
2006-2007	Project Leader, National Research Infrastructure, CSIRO ICT Centre
2003-2007	Network Design Engineer, CSIRO ICT Centre
2000-2002	Network Engineer, PowerTel Limited
1998-2000	Software Engineer, Logica Pty Limited

Achievements & Awards

2009	Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (Routing and Switching) No. 25254
2009	CSIRO ICT Centre Appreciation Award, QoS Development Team
2008	CSIRO ICT Centre Appreciation Award, RailCorp Consulting Project
2007	CSIRO Chairman's Medal, ICT Centre Gigabit Wireless Team
2006	CSIRO Service from Science Award, The Virtual Critical Care Unit Team

Other Highlights

2008	ATUG (Australian Telecommunications Users Group) National Broadband Awards, special mention in the Health category for the ECHONet project
2003	Design and commissioning of the CeNTIE national Foundation and Post-Production Industry networks.
2002	Principal technical engineer responsible for the commissioning of a carrier-grade telecommunication network.
2000	Member of a software engineering team that delivered a SCADA system to a major utility.

Summary of Science & Technical Output

Student Supervision

2011	Z. Zhao, 1st year PhD, UNSW.

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
Vijay Sivaraman, Arun Vishwanath, Craig Russell, Zhi Zhao, "Adapting Router Buffers for Energy Efficiency", ACM CoNEXT 2011, Tokyo, Japan, December 2011.
Vijay Sivaraman, Arun Vishwanath, Zhi Zhao, Craig Russell, "An Empirical Model of Power Consumption in the NetFPGA Gigabit Router", 4th IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Mumbai, India, December 2010.
Zvi Rosberg, John Matthews, Craig Russell, Sheldon Dealy, "Fair and End-to-End QoS Controlled Internet", Third International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability and Quality of Service (CTRQ), Athens, Greece, June 2010.
Zvi Rosberg, Craig Russell, Vijay Sivaraman, "Rate and End-to-End Delay Control for Multicast and Unicast Flows", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Germany 2009.
Z. Rosberg, F. Sabrina, S. Dealy, J. Matthews, C.Russell, "Rate and Delay Controlled Core Networks: An Experimental Demonstration", IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Charleston, South Carolina, 2009.
Thomas Pike, Craig Russell, Alex Krumm-Heller, Vijay Sivaraman, "IPv6 and Multicast Filtering for High-Performance Multimedia Applications", Australasian Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC), Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2007.
Shen Li, Vijay Sivaraman, Alex Krumm-Heller, Craig Russell, "A Dynamic Stateful Multicast Firewall", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Scotland, June 2007.
R.P. Liu, A. Krumm-Heller, C. Russell, "ViCCU® Traffic Analysis", IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies: from Theory to Applications (ICTTA'06), Damascus, April 2006.
C.L. Russell, P.J. Blennerhassett and P.J. Stiles, "Supercritical analysis of strongly nonlinear vortices in magnetized ferrofluids", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A (1999) 455, 23-67.
C.L. Russell, P.J. Blennerhassett and P.J. Stiles, "Strongly nonlinear vortices in magnetized ferrofluids", J. Austral. Math. Soc. Ser. B 40(1998), 146-170.

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