C. Siva Ram Murthy

Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India
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C. Siva Ram Murthy earned his B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Regional Engineering College (now National Institute of Technology), Warangal, India, in 1982, M.Tech. degree in Computer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, in 1984, and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 1988.

He has been with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras, since 1988, where he is currently a Professor. He has held visiting positions at the German National Research Centre for Information Technology (GMD), Germany, University of Stuttgart, Germany, University of Freiburg, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and University of California at San Diego, USA.

He is the co-author of the textbooks Parallel Computers: Architecture and Programming, (Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi, India), New Parallel Algorithms for Direct Solution of Linear Equations, (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, USA), Resource Management in Real-time Systems and Networks, (MIT Press, Cambridge, USA), WDM Optical Networks: Concepts, Design, and Algorithms, (Prentice Hall, New Jersey, USA), and Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols, (Prentice Hall, New Jersey, USA). His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, real-time systems, lightwave networks, and wireless networks. He has published over 125 papers in refereed international journals and over 125 papers in refereed international conferences in these areas.

Dr.Murthy is a recipient of Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Indian Institute of Science, Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Medal for Young Scientists, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, and IBM Real-Time Innovation Faculty Award. He is a co-recipient of Best Paper Awards from the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS), the 6th and 11th IEEE Annual International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), and the 14th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON). He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers, and a Subject Area Editor of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Selected Recent Journal Publications

• R. Kiran Kumar and C. Siva Ram Murthy, "Energy Efficient and Scalable Search in Dense Wireless Sensor Networks", to appear in IEEE Trans. on Computers, 2009.
• G. Venkat Raju, T. Bheemarjuna Reddy, and C. Siva Ram Murthy, "Adaptive-FEC Based Packet Loss Resilience Scheme for Supporting Voice Communication over Ad hoc Wireless Networks", IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 1184-1199, 2008.
• T. Venkatesh, A. Sankar, A. Jayaraj, and C. Siva Ram Murthy, "A Complete Framework to Support Controlled Burst Retransmission in Optical Burst Switching Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 65-73, 2008.
• Y.V. Kiran, T. Venkatesh, and C. Siva Ram Murthy, "A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Path Selection and Wavelength Selection in Optical Burst Switched Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 25, no. 9, pp. 18-26, 2007.
• B.S. Manoj, V. Mythili Ranganath, and C. Siva Ram Murthy, "On Using Multi-dimensional Markov Chains for Performance Evaluation of Hybrid Wireless Networks", IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 1496-1511, 2006.
• Sushant Sinha and C. Siva Ram Murthy, "Information Theoretic Approach to Traffic Adaptive WDM Networks", IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 881-894, 2005.
• G. Phani Krishna, M. Jnana Pradeep, and C. Siva Ram Murthy, "An Efficient Primary-Segmented Backup Scheme for Dependable Real-time Communication in Multihop Networks", IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 81-94, 2003.

• R. Kiran Kumar, Antony Franklin, and C. Siva Ram Murthy, "Coverage Based Expanding Ring Search for Dense Wireless Sensor Networks", in Proc. 15th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), Bangalore, December 17-20, 2008.
  (46 accepted, 319 submitted, acceptance rate: ~14%)
• B. Venkataramana, Devesh Agrawal, and C. Siva Ram Murthy, "Design and Performance Evaluation of Meghadoot -- A Hybrid Wireless Network Architecture", in Proc. 14th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON), Singapore, September 13-15, 2006.
  [Best Paper Award]
• S. Sriram, T. Bheemarjuna Reddy, B. S. Manoj, and C. Siva Ram Murthy, "On the End-to-end Call Acceptance and the Possibility of Deterministic QoS Guarantees in Ad hoc Wireless Networks", in Proc. 6th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), Urbana-Champaign, USA, May 25-28, 2005, pp. 169-180.
  (40 accepted, 281 submitted, acceptance rate: ~14%)
• S. Archana, B.S. Manoj, and C. Siva Ram Murthy, "MARVIN: Movement-Aware Routing oVer Interplanetary Networks", in Proc. 1st IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Santa Clara, USA, October 4-7, 2004, pp. 245-254.
  (68 accepted, 358 submitted, acceptance rate: ~19%)
• S. Jayashree, B.S. Manoj, and C. Siva Ram Murthy, "On Using Battery State for Medium Access Control in Ad hoc Wireless Networks", in Proc. 12th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Philadelphia, USA, September 26-October 1, 2004, pp. 360-373.
  (26 accepted, 326 submitted, acceptance rate: ~8%)