Centre closure

As part of a broader organisational restructure, data networking research at Swinburne University of Technology has moved from the Centre for Advanced Internet Architecture (CAIA) to the Internet For Things (I4T) Research Lab.

Although CAIA no longer exists, this website reflects CAIA's activities and outputs between March 2002 and February 2017, and is being maintained as a service to the broader data networking research community.

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.