Einar W. Vollset
	Visiting Assistant Professor
	4114 Upson Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 United States
Phone:	+1(607) 255-7573
Fax:	+1(607) 255-4428 (add my name to cover page)
Email:	Please see this

I work in the Systems group, primarily with Ken Birman and Robbert van Renesse, as well as some extremely bright PhD students.

I got my PhD in 2005 at the University of Newcastle, UK. My dissertation was one of the runners-up for the 2006 British Computer Society's distinguished dissertation award, a competition to find the best CS dissertations in the UK each year.

Before I embarked on my PhD, I worked part time and during the summers for Arjuna, a startup (that eventually got acquired by Bluestone, which then got acquired by HP) in the area of distributed transactions, messaging and reliability. I worked on the team that developed what became HP's Java Message Service (JMS) system.

I like building real systems that people will use, though you may not think that reading my PhD thesis - it included proving consensus algorithms for mobile ad-hoc networks correct - ah the folly of youth ;-).

I'm currently focusing on building a highly scalable 'on-demand network testbed' called CloudLab (if you're a Cornell student looking for a project, you can help me)

Other strands of research includes measuring and building systems for long distance, high speed links, such as the TeraGrid (some preliminary notes). I've also played a little bit with GNU Radio and the associated USRP hardware (see my notes), and would like to build a scalable, lightweight web services stack based entirely on Atom/RSS feeds, but I doubt I'll have the time (and then Yahoo Pipes came along anyways..)

An amorphous and ever changing list of Cornell student projects I'm willing to supervise

Teaching: I'm teaching CS 414 (Operating Systems) at in the summer and fall sessions this year (yes I'm busy..). I also taught 414 last fall. The course pages are still available. Previously me and the brilliant Simon Woodman help setup the first ever Masters in Computing in Kazakhstan, at the al-Farabi National Kazakh University there.

• Einar Vollset, ,Ken Birman and Robbert van Renesse
  Chickweed: Group Communication for Embedded Devices in Opportunistic Networking Environments.,
  3rd International Workshop on Dependable Embedded Systems, in conjunction with 25th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2006), October 2006, Leeds, UK

• Richard Lau, Stephanie Demers, Yibei Ling, Bruce Siegell, Einar Vollset, Ken Birman, Robbert van Renesse, Howie Shrobe, Jonathan Bachrach, Lester Foster.
  Cognitive Adaptive Radio Teams,
  2nd International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, (IWWAN 2006), June 2006, New York, NY.

• Francois Bonnet, Paul Ezhilchelvan and Einar Vollset,
  Quiescent Consensus in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks using Eventually Storage-Free Broadcasts,
  The 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2006) April 23 -27, 2006, Dijon, France.

• Einar Vollset and Paul Ezhilchelvan,
  Design and Performance-Study of Crash-Tolerant Protocols for Broadcasting and Supporting Consensus in MANETs (bibtex) ,
  The 24th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2005) , October 26-28, 2005, Orlando, Florida

• Dave E. Cooper, Paul Ezhilchelvan, Isi Mitrani and Einar Vollset,
  Optimization of Encounter Gossip Propagation in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks,
  The 13th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2005), September 27-29 2005, Atlanta, Georgia.

• Einar Vollset and Paul Ezhilchelvan,
  Enabling reliable many-to-many communication in ad-hoc pervasive environments (bibtex) ,
  2nd International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P'05) in conjunction with 3rd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Kauai Island, Hawaii, March 2005

• Einar Vollset and Paul Ezhilchelvan,
  Scribble: an Efficient Reliable Manycast protocol for Ad-hoc Networks ,
  The 1st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (Poster), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, October 2004.

• Einar Vollset, Dave Ingham and Paul Ezhilchelvan,
  JMS on Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, (bibtex)
  Personal Wireless Communications (PWC) 2003, sponsored by IFIP WG 8.6, Venice, Italy, September 2003.Springer-Verlag

• 10th January, 2006 - poster talk, Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies (TRUST) 2006 Winter Meeting, Washington D.C. slides.
• 19th July, 2005 - Opera Research group talk, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. slides.