Lawrence Stewart

Tel (desk): +61 3 9214 4530
Email: lastewart@swin.edu.au

Position: PhD Candidate (Chancellor's Research Scholarship)

Qualifications:

BEng (Telecommunications & Internet Technologies) 1st class honours
BSci (Computer Science & Software Engineering)
Swinburne University, 2006

Publications: List available here.

Software/Tools: List available here.

Grants/Funding: List available here.

Research Interests:

• Empirical evaluation of transport protocol performance, impact and dynamic behaviour.

• Scaling the Internet's density and geographical reach.

• Improving network support for latency-sensitive, interactive traffic e.g. online multiplayer network games, VoIP.

Research Projects:

Current

• DIFFUSED.

• NewTCP.

• Microburst Congestion Control.

Past

• Five New TCP Congestion Control Algorithms for FreeBSD.

• Enhancing the FreeBSD TCP Implementation.

• Game ENvironment Internet Utilisation Study (GENIUS).

• Smart Internet Technologies - Smart Networks, Stream 4 (SITCRC).

• Mobile Applications and Global Internet Communications (MAGIC).

Talks:

• BSDCan (2008, 2009, 2010).

• FastSoft (2009).

• FreeBSD Developer Summit (2008, 2009).

• IETF (75).

• MSN Workshop (2009).

Research Community Activities:

• Independent implementation and review of IRTF specifications for next generation TCP congestion control algorithms. H-TCP: review, implementation; CUBIC: review p1, p2, implementation.

• Local arrangements for Netgames 2007.

Teaching:

• HET436 Broadband Multimedia Networks (tutor, 2007-2008).

• HET306 Unix for Telecommunications (tutor/lab demonstrator, 2007-2008, 2010).

• HET104 LAN Principles (tutor/lab demonstrator, 2006-2007).

• HET424 IP Technologies (tutor/lab demonstrator, 2006).

For Fun:

• Crazy home networking with friends p1, p2, p3.

• I'm a developer for the FreeBSD network operating system.

• Victorian Telecommunications Museum.