Mukaddim Pathan

Research Fellow

Contact

CSIRO ICT Centre
Room #214, 108 North Road
Acton, ACT 2601, Australia

Tel: + 61 2 6216 7097
Fax: +61 2 6216 7111
Email

Themes

• Sensor Networks
• Cloud Computing
• Content Delivery Networks

Projects

• Sensor Informatics

Biography

Mukaddim Pathan is a research fellow at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), the national government body of scientific research in Australia. He also holds the position of an adjunct lecturer at the Australian National University. Previously, he was a researcher at the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab of the University of Melbourne, Australia. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Melbourne. His research interests include data management, resource allocation, load balancing, and coordination policies in wide-area distributed systems such as Content Delivery Networks, Cloud computing, and Sensor networks. He is one of the developers of MetaCDN that leverages the capabilities of existing storage Clouds for high performance content delivery. He is the editor of the book Content Delivery Networks, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 9, Springer-Verlag, Germany. He has authored and co-authored a number of research papers in internationally recognized journals and conferences. He is involved in the organization of the UPGRADE-CN and IDCS workshops and is a PC member of several international conferences. He has edited a few research issues in reputed international journals and also serves as the reviewer of a few renowned journals such as IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), International Journal of Management Science (OMEGA), Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Computer Communications, Computer Networks, Journal of Systems and Software, and IEEE Software. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE computer society, and ACM. For further information, please visit: http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/mukaddim.pathan

Academic Qualifications

2009	PhD in Computer Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia
2004	B.Sc (Hons) in Computer Science and Information Technology, Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh

Recent Professional Experience

2011(Feb)-current	Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia.
2010(Dec)-current	Adjunct Lecturer, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia.
2010(May)-current	Research Fellow, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia.
2009(Nov)-2010(Mar)	Research Assistant, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
2005(Mar-2006(Mar)	Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology of Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh.
2004(Dec)-2005(Mar)	Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Prime University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2004(Nov)-2004(Dec)	Programmer in BJIT (Bangladesh-Japan Information Technology): Offshore Development Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Achievements & Awards

2006(Mar)-2009(Nov)	Australian Government International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS).
2006(Mar)-2009(Sept)	Melbourne International Research Scholarship (MIRS), University of Melbourne.
2007	IEEE TCSC Student Travel Grant and CSSE Department Student Travel Support, to present research paper at the Doctoral Symposium, IEEE 7th International Conference on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'07), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 14-17 May, 2007.
2007	A member of the Gridbus Project, which received Vice Chancellor's Knowledge Transfer Excellence (Commendation) Award, University of Melbourne.
2008	Research Training Conference Assistance Scheme (RT-CAS) award from the Melbourne School of Engineering, to present research paper at the 16th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2008), Monterrey, Mexico, 12-14 November, 2008.
2008	Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship (MATS) and MA Bartlett Special Travel Grant-in-aid by the University of Melbourne for research visits to ITESM-Tecnologico de Monterrey (a Universitas 21 institution) and Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (UANL), Monterrey, Mexico, 15-24 November, 2008.
2008(Sept)-2009(Sept)	Dreamlarge: Knowledge Transfer Student Grant 2008 for the project Knowledge Transfer of Next-Generation Grid Technologies to Empower Emerging Economies, which is aimed at sharing GRIDS lab and Gridbus research and innovations with leading institutions of South East Asian Countries, such as India and Bangladesh.

Other Highlights

Teaching
Lecturer	COMP4300: Parallel Systems (Data Intensive Computing), Australian National University, Semester 1, 2011.

Summary of Science & Technical Output

Student Supervision

PhD
2011(Feb)-current	Gaurav Mitra, "Parallel Processing of Sensor Network Data Streams", PhD Student, Australian National University, Australia (with A/Prof. Alistair Rendell and Dr. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos).
2011(March)-current	Zeyi Wen, "Semantics-based Sensor Data Analysis for Monitoring Movement of Objects", PhD Student, University of Melbourne, Australia (with Dr. Rui Zhang).
2010(August)-current	Davood Ijadi, "Semantics-based Quality control of Sensor Network Data", PhD Student, Deakin University, Australia (with A/Prof. Jemal Abawajy).
Interns
2011(April)-2012(March)	Po-Cheng Cen, Internship Student, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (with Prof. Alistair Rendell).
2010(Nov)-2011(Feb)	Amir Hadad, "Self-Configuration of Sensor Network Services", Vacation Scholarship Student, Australian National University, Australia (with Dr. Kerry Taylor).
2010(Oct)-2011(Feb)	Thomas Brandt, "Global mobile data access using cloud storage", Internship Student, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (with Dr. Carsten Friedrich and Dr. Mark Cameron).

Science Citizenship

2006-current	Editor, Content Delivery Network (CDN) Research Directory
2009	Program Chair, International Workshop on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2009), in conjunction with 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA 2009), Jeju Island, South Korea, 10-12 December, 2009.
2008	Program Chair, International Workshop on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2008), in conjunction with 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2008), Khulna, Bangladesh, 25-27 December, 2008.
2011	Program Co-Chair, Special Session on Distributed Networking and Computing (DNC 2011), Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference 2011 (NAEC 2011), Riva del Garda, Italy, October 13-16, 2011.
2010	Program Co-Chair, 5th International Workshop on Content Delivery Networks (CDN 2010), in conjunction with 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010), Melbourne, Australia, 16-19 May, 2010.
2009	Program Co-Chair, 4th UPGRADE-CN Workshop on Content Management and Delivery in Large-Scale Networks (UPGRADE-CN 2009), in conjunction with 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2009), Germany, 9-13 June, 2009.
2008	Program Co-Chair, 3rd International Workshop on the Use of P2P, Grid, and Agents for the Development of Content Networks (UPGRADE-CN 2008), in conjunction with 17th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2008), USA, 23-27 June 2008.
2011	Co-Chair, Virtual Communities and Organizations Track, 2nd International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT-2011), Tirana, Albania, 7-9 September, 2011.
2010	Local Organizing Chair, 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010), Melbourne, Australia, 17-20 May, 2010.
2011	Workshop Chair, 4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), 5-8 December, 2011.
2011	Web, Publicity and Logistic Chair, International Workshop on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2011), Melbourne, Australia, 24-26 October, 2011.
2010	Web and Publicity Chair, 3rd International Workshop on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2010), with 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2010), Melbourne, Australia, 1-3 September, 2010.
2009	Organizer, IEEE Science and Engineering Graduate Research Expo 2009, University of Melbourne, Australia, 25 September 2009.
2012	Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Principles and Practices of Software Engineering”, International Journal of Software Engineering.
2011	Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Security, Privacy and Trust in Cloud Systems", International Journal of Cloud Computing, Inderscience Publishers.
2011	Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Internet-Based Content Delivery", Computer Networks, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2010	Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Network Management in Distributed Systems", Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (SCPE), Vol. 11, No. 4, West University of Timisoara, Romania.
2011	Editorial Board Member, Next Generation Content Delivery Infrastructures: Emerging Paradigms and Technologies, IGI Global, USA.
2011-current	Editor, International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications, Sysbase Solution, London, UK.
2010-current	Editor, International Journal of Computer Networks (IJCN), CSC Journals, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2010-current	Editor, International Journal on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IJIDCS), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2010-current	Editor, International Journal of Multidisciplinary Sciences and Engineering (IJMSE), Sysbase Solution Ltd., London, UK.
2010-current	Technical Editor, International Journal of Information Processing and Management, Human and Sciences Publications, South Korea.
2010-current	Technical Editor, International Journal on Advances in Information Sciences and Service Sciences, The International Association for Information, Culture, Human and Industry Technology (AICIT), South Korea.
2010	Associate Editor, 18th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2010), Pretoria, South Africa, 7-9 June, 2010.
2009	Associate Editor, 17th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2009), Verona, Italy, 8-10 June, 2009.
2011	Program Committee Member, 6th International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2011), Melbourne, Australia, 26-28 September, 2011.
2011	Program Committee Member, 7th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2011), Adelaide, Australia, 6-9 December 2011.
2011	Program Committee Member, 3rd International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA 2011), Jeju, South Korea, 12-15 December, 2011.
2011	Program Committee Member, 2nd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2011), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 19-21 September, 2011.
2011	Program Committee Member, Intelligent Cloud Computing and Security (ICCS 2011), 3rd Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2010), Daegue, South Korea, 20-22 April, 2011.
2010	Program Committee Member, 2nd International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICAC 2010), Chennai, India, 14-16 December, 2010.
2010	Program Committee Member, 1st International Workshop on Bio-inspired Approaches to Advanced Computing and Communications (BioAdcom2010), Boston, MA, USA, 1-3 December, 2010.
2010	Program Committee Member, 1st International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2010), Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, 24-28 July, 2010.
2009	Program Committee Member, 2009 International Workshop on Frontier of Secure Networks (IFSN 2009), Shanghai, China, 17-19 December, 2009.
2006	Program Committee Member, 5th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2006), Changsha, China, 21-23 October, 2006.
2005	Program Committee Member, 8th International Conference on Computer and Info. Technology (ICCIT 2005), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 28-30 December, 2005.
2010	Session Chair, Sensor Networks, 6th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2010), Brisbane, Australia, 7-10 December 2010.
2011	Reviewer, 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'11), Toulouse, France, August 29 - September 2, 2011.
2011	Reviewer, IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE Globecom 2011), Houston, Texas, USA, 5-9 December, 2011.
2011	Reviewer, 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD’11), Washington, USA, 4-9 July, 2011.
2011	Reviewer, 9th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS’11), Washington, USA, 4-9 July, 2011.
2010	Reviewer, 6th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2010), Chicago, Illinois, USA, 9-12 October, 2010.
2009	Reviewer, IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE Globecom 2009), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 30 November-4 December, 2009.
2008	Reviewer, IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2008), Yilan, Taiwan, 9-12 December, 2008.
2007	Reviewer, 19th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDCS 2007), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 19-21 November, 2007.
2006	Reviewer, 5th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2006), Changsha, China, 21-23 October, 2006.
2011-current	Reviewer, International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN), ACTA Press, Canada.
2011-current	Reviewer, Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, Germany.
2011-current	Reviewer, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications Journal, Springer, Germany.
2011-current	Reviewer, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., USA.
2011-current	Reviewer, IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Society, USA.
2011-current	Reviewer, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Communications Society, USA.
2010-current	Reviewer, IEEE Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society, USA.
2010-current	Reviewer, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Society, USA.
2010-current	Reviewer, Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2010-current	Reviewer, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2010-current	Reviewer, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, Korean Society for Internet Information, Seoul, South Korea.
2010-current	Reviewer, Journal of Computers, Academy Publisher, Finland.
2010-current	Reviewer, Future Internet Journal, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
2009-current	Reviewer, ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR), ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM), USA.
2008-current	Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, USA.
2007-current	Reviewer, Computer Networks, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2007-current	Reviewer, Computer Communications, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2009-current	Reviewer, International Journal of Management Science (OMEGA), Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2009-current	Reviewer, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2011-current	Reviewer, Journal of Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks, Old City Publishing, Philadelphia, USA.
2006-2007	Reviewer, IEEE Software, IEEE Computer Society, USA.
2006-current	Member, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), USA.
2006-current	Member, IEEE Computer Society, USA.
2007-current	Member, IEEE Communications Society, USA.
2006-current	Member, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), USA.
2008-current	Member, Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), Australia.

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
[Edited Book] Rajkumar Buyya, Mukaddim Pathan, and Athena Vakali, “Content Delivery Networks”, ISBN: 978-3-540-77886-8, Springer, Germany, 2008.
[Journal] Mukaddim Pathan and Rajkumar Buyya, “Resource Discovery and Request-Redirection for Dynamic Load Sharing in Multi-Provider Peering CDNs,” Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 976-990, Elsevier, Sept. 2009.
[Journal] Mukaddim Pathan and Rajkumar Buyya, “Architecture and Performance Models for QoS-based Effective Peering of Content Delivery Networks,” Multi-agent and Grid Systems Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 165-195, IOS Press, Jul. 2009.
[Journal] Rajkumar Buyya, Mukaddim Pathan, James Broberg, and Zahir Tari, “A Case for Peering of Content Delivery Networks,” IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Vol. 7, No. 10, IEEE CS Press, USA, Oct. 2006.
[Conference] Mukaddim Pathan, James Broberg, and Rajkumar Buyya, “Maximizing Utility for Content Delivery Clouds,” Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISEʹ09), LNCS 5802, Springer, Oct. 2009.
[Conference] Mukaddim Pathan and Rajkumar Buyya, “A Utility model for Peering of Multi-Provider Content Delivery Services,” Proc. of the 34th IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCNʹ09), IEEE CS Press, USA, Oct. 2009.
[Conference] Mukaddim Pathan and Rajkumar Buyya, “Performance Models for Peering Content Delivery Networks,” Proc. of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON’08), IEEE CS Press, USA, Dec. 2008.
[Conference] Mukaddim Pathan et al., “Load and Proximity Aware Request-Redirection for Dynamic Load Distribution in Peering CDNs,” Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS’08), , LNCS 5331, Springer, Nov. 2008.
[Conference] Mukaddim Pathan et al., “An Architecture for Virtual Organization (VO)-Based Effective Peering of CDNs,” Proc. of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC’07), ACM Press, USA, Jun. 2007.
[Conference] Mukaddim Pathan and Rajkumar Buyya, “Economy-based Content Replication for Peering Content Delivery Networks,” Proc. of 7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid’07), IEEE CS Press, USA, May 2007.

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