Lachlan Andrew

ARC Future Fellow

Email:
Tel:+61 3 9214  4837

Selected Publications:
(See also full publication list.)

1. Online Algorithms for Geographical Load Balancing (best paper award)
   Minghong Lin, Zhenhua Liu, Adam Wierman and Lachlan L. H. Andrew.
   in Proc. Int. Green Computing Conf., San Jose, CA, 5-8 Jun 2012. bibtex

2. Network Stability under Alpha Fair Bandwidth Allocation with General File Size Distribution
   Fernando Paganini, Ao Tang, Andres Ferragut and Lachlan L. H. Andrew.
   IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, 57(3):579-591, Mar 2012. bibtex

3. Greening Geographic Load Balancing (Pick of the Month series in the April IEEE Sustainable Computing Register)
   Zhenhua Liu, Minghong Lin, Adam Wierman, Steven H. Low and Lachlan L. H. Andrew.
   in Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS, pp. 233-244. San Jose, CA, 7-11 Jun 2011. bibtex

4. Dynamic right-sizing for power-proportional data centers (best paper award)
   Minghong Lin, Adam Wierman, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Eno Thereska.
   in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 1098-1106. Shanghai, China, 10-15 Apr 2011. bibtex

5. Optimality, fairness and robustness in speed scaling designs
   Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Minghong Lin and Adam Wierman.
   in Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS, pp. 37-48. New York, NY, 14-18 Jun 2010. bibtex

6. Queue Dynamics with Window Flow Control
   Ao Tang, Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Krister Jacobsson, Karl H. Johansson, Steven H. Low and Håkan Hjalmarsson.
   IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, 18(5):1422-1435, Oct 2010. bibtex

7. Understanding XCP: Equilibrium and Fairness
   Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Steven H. Low and Bartek P. Wydrowski.
   IEEE Trans. Networking, 17(6):1697-1710, Dec 2009. bibtex

8. Dynamic Allocation of Subcarriers and Transmit Powers in an OFDMA Cellular Network
   Stephen V. Hanly, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Thaya Thanabalasingham.
   IEEE Trans. Information Theory, 55(12):5455-5462, Dec 2009. bibtex

9. Power-Aware Speed Scaling in Processor Sharing Systems
   Adam Wierman, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Ao Tang.
   in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 2007-2015. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20-25 Apr 2009. bibtex

10. Dynamic right-sizing for power-proportional data centers
    Minghong Lin, Adam Wierman, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Eno Thereska.
    IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, To appear. bibtex

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Editorships

• Associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 18 Jan 2011--present
• Area editor of Elsevier Computer Communications, 17 Sept 2009--present

Funding

• 2013-2015 "Congestion control of networks: a unified stochastic framework", ARC DP130100156, $300k, with H. Vu, Y. Nazarathy, S. H. Low and M. Mandjes
• 2013-2015 "Resource management algorithms and software systems for green cloud computing", ARC DP130101378, $315k, with R. Buyya and A. Wierman
• 2011-2013 "Tools and models for measuring and predicting growth in internet addressing and routing complexity", ARC LP110100240, $211k, with G. Armitage and G. Huston
• 2010-2012 "Mechanism design for next generation random access wireless protocols", ARC DP1095103, $150k, with H. Vu
• 2009-2013 "Increasing internet energy and cost efficiency by improving higher-layer protocols", ARC FT0991594, A$683k. ARC future fellowship
• 2009-2012 "Efficient and Fair Traffic Control for a Multi-Service Internet", ARC DP0985322, A$635k, with M. Zukerman, M. Palaniswami, Z. Rosberg and G. Chen
• 2009 "WAN-in-Lab at 10Gbit/s", DURIP 53773-MA-RIP, US$150k, with Steven Low
• 2005-2007 "Control Protocols for Wireless Networks", ARC DP0557611, A$238k, with Stephen Hanly

Lachlan is a member of Swinburne's Energy Management Research Centre (EMRC).

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Lachlan Andrew - Research Students

Current PhD:

• Tuan Dinh - Energy efficient management of compute clusters,
  (co-supervised with Dr Yoni Nazarathy and Dr Philip Branch)
• Tung Le - Intelligent transportation systems,
  (co-supervised with A/Prof Hai Vu and Dr Yoni Nazarathy)

Current Masters:

• Rozanna Jesudasan - Queueing in the smart grid,
  (co-supervised with A/Prof Hai Vu)

Submitted PhD:

Passed PhD:

• Suong Hong, 2012 - Incentives for voice and data users in wireless LANs,
  (co-supervised with A/Prof Hai Vu)
• Ji Li, 2009 - Connectivity requirements in multihop netwokrs,
  (co-supervised with Prof. Moshe Zukerman, A/Prof Peter Farrell)
• Angiras Varma, 2008 - Channel equalisation using superimposed pilots,
  (co-supervised with Prof. Jonathan Manton, Dr Chandra Athaudage, Dr Brian Krongold)
• Tony Cui, 2008 - Network Flow Control,
  (co-supervised with Prof. Moshe Zukerman)
• Thaya Thanabalasingham, 2007 - Power control in multihop wireless networks,
  (co-supervised with A/Prof. Stephen Hanly)
• Jolyon White, 2007 - Modelling and Dimensioning of Optical Burst Switching Networks,
  (co-supervised with Prof Rod Tucker)
• Ananda Kusuma, 2005 - Routing in multihop cellular networks,
  (co-supervised with A/Prof. Stephen Hanly)
• David Hayes, 2001 - Packet scheduling for user satisfaction,
  (co-supervised with A/Prof. Michael Rumsewicz)
• Ravindra Ranasinghe, 2000 - Wireless multimedia LANs,
  (co-supervised with Prof. David Everitt)

Masters by coursework minor thesis

• Ananda Kusuma -- QoS-aware routing
• Su-Hsien Kuan -- Fuzzy logic for flow control
• Mohammad Iswayhudi -- Quantisation for noisy channels

Advice

This link is to several pieces of advice to researchers

Projects and PhD openings

• Higher-layer aspects of energy efficient networking
• Network modelling and evaluation, with an emphasis on TCP

Prospective PhD students, please refer to the list of PhD projects I am offering.

Submission info on some journals

Visitors

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