Dr. Sridhar Alagar

Associate Professor of Instruction

Degrees:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas.
• B.S. in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
• B.Sc. in Physics, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India

Research Interests:

• Distributed Systems
• Networks
• Data Structures, Algorithms, and Programming

Major Honors and Awards:

• Method and system for bi-directional path switched network (with co-inventors), United States Patent 7046619, May 16, 2006
• Telecommunications network distributed restoration method and system (with co-inventors), United States Patent 6512740, January 28, 2003.
• Telecommunications network distributed restoration method and system (with co-inventors), United States Patent 6507561, January 14, 2003.
• System and method for restricted reuse of intact portions of failed paths (with co-inventors), United States Patent 6496476, December 17, 2002
• Method of coordinating the respective operations of different restoration processes (with co-inventors), United States Patent 6456589, September 24, 2002

Representative Publications:

• Techniques to Tackle State Explosion in Global Predicate Detection (with S. Venkatesan), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Volume 27, Number 8 August 2001, pp 704–714.
• An Optimal Quasi-Path Restoration in Backbone Networks (with V. Jain, S. Baig, and S. Venkatesan), Proceedings of Thirteenth International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng), Las Vegas, August 1999
• Dynamic Sub-Second Restoration in WDM Networks (with R. Jaganathan, F. Masetti, and M. Garnot), IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), July 1998
• Centralized vs Distributed Restoration (with R. Jaganathan, F. Masetti, M. Garnot, and S. Venkatesan), Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)., November 1998.
• Causal Ordering in Distributed Mobile Systems (with S. Venkatesan), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), March 1997.
• Crash Recovery without Changing Application Messages (with S. Venkatesan and T.Y. Juang), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), March 1997.