Research

Resource management on Clouds and Grids; resource management on Sensor Networks; Web Services-based inter-operable systems; XML fi ltering and forwarding; design of middleware to optimize interoperability; operating systems; grids: computing, data and sensor; telecommunication systems; distributed systems; high performance systems; impact of both wireless and optical networks on resource management and performance; performance modeling; high performance parallel Web servers; telecommunication servers.

Application

Cloud for sensor-based bridge infrastructure management; utility computing, cloud computing, scientific computing, high performance systems, telecommunication systems, medical information systems, enterprise extranets.

Activities

• Director of Carleton University Research Centre on Real Time and Distributed Systems
• Area Editor for Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory
• National Examiner for Association of Professional Engineers
• General Chair of IEEE/ACM CCGrid (2012)
• Member of Sterling Committee for ICPE, CCGrid (2010-2011)
• Member of Program Committee forMS0P2P (2012), SRMPDS (2010-2011), ADVCOMP (2010-2011), INTENSIVE (2010)
• Session Chair for CCGrid (2010)

Journal Articles

Navdeep Kapoor, Shikharesh Majumdar, Biswajit Nandy (2009), “Class-Based Grid Resource Management Strategies for On-Demand Jobs”,  SIMULATION (publication pending).

Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, and Eric W. Parsons (2009), “Achieving efficiency, quality of service and robustness in multi-organizational Grids,” Journal of Systems and Software.

Muhammad Asif, Shikharesh Majumdar, and Gerry Kopec (2007), “Load Sharing in Call Server Clusters,” Computer Communications Journal (Special Issue on Advances in Communication Networking).

Shikahersh Majumdar, and W. Bock (2007), “Internet-based Distributed Data Acquisition System for Fiber-optic Sensors,” IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement.

Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, and Eric W. Parsons (2007), “High Performance Middleware for Mobile Wireless Networks,” Mobile Information Systems.

Diwakar Krishnamurthy, Jerome Rolia, and  Shikharesh Majumdar, (2007), “A Synthetic Workload Generation Technique for Stress Testing Session-Based Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Software Eng.

Conference Publications

Muhammad Asif, Shikharesh Majumdar, “A Graph-based Algorithm for Partitioning of Mobile Web Services”, IEEE International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2009), September 2009 (publication pending).

Yang Cao, Chung-Horng Lung, and Shikharesh Majumdar, “A Subscription Coverage Technique for XML Message Dissemination”, The 9^th Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet(SAINT’09), July 2009 (publication pending).

Shikharesh Majumdar, “The “Any-Schedulability” Criterion for Providing QoS Guarantees Through Advance Reservation Requests”, International Workshop on Cloud Computing (Cloud 2009), May 2009.

Muhammad Asif, Shikharesh Majumdar., “Performance Analysis of Mobile Web Service Partitioning Frameworks”, The Sixteenth International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication (ADCOM 2008), December 2008.

 

Imran Ahmad, Shikharesh Majumdar, “A Two Level Approach for Managing Resource and Data Intensive Tasks in Grids”, International Conference on Grid Computing, High-Performance and Distributed Applications (GADA’08), November 2008.

Muhammad Asif, Shikharesh Majumdar, and Raluca Dragnea, “Partitioning the WS Execution Environment for Hosting Mobile Web Services”, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008), July 2008.

Imran Ahmad, I., Shikharesh Majumdar, “Performance of Resource Management Algorithms for “Processable Bulk Data Transfer” Tasks in Grid Environments”, 7th ACM International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP’08), June 2008.

Sivanthan Sivaraja, Mayatheepan Thiyagarajah, Thiruvarangan Piranavam, Chung-Horng Lung, and Shikharesh Majumdar, “Efficient Multiple-Keyword Search in DHT-based Decentralized Systems,” International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2008), Jun 2008.

Imran Ahmad, and Shikharesh Majumdar, “Performance of Resource Management Algorithms for “Processable Bulk Data Transfer” Tasks in Grid Environments,” International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP 2008), Jun 2008.

Muhammad Asif, Shikharesh Majumdar, and Raluca Dragnea, “Partitioning the WS Execution Environment for Hosting Mobile Web Services,” International Conference on Services Computing, Jul 2008.

Muhammad Asif, Shikharesh Majumdar, and Raluca Dragnea, “Application Partitioning for Enhancing System Performance for Services Hosted on Wireless Devices”, Workshop on Service Oriented Engineering and Optimizations (SENOPT 07), December 2007.

Umar Farooq, Shikharesh Majumdar, and Eric W. Parsons Farooq, “Engineering Grids Applications and Middleware for High Performance,” 6th ACM International Workshop on Software and Performance(WOSP ’07), Feb 2007.

Afiay Kassim, Babak Esfandiari, and Shikharesh Majumdar, “A Flexible Architecture for Management of Distributed Web Service Registries,” 5thCommunications Networks and Systems Research (CNSR) Conference, May 2007.

Muhammad Asif, Shikharesh Majumdar, and Raluca Dragnea, “Hosting Web Services on Resource Constrained Devices,” 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007), Jul 2007.

Parthy Chandrashekaran, Shikharesh Majumdar, Chung-Horng Lung, and Laura Serghi, “Performance Analysis of Web Service Replica Selection in an Extranet,” 5th Communications Networks and Systems Research (CNSR) Conference, May 2007.

Imran Ahmad, and Shikharesh Majumdar, “Efficient Management of Grid Resources using a Bi-level Decision Making Architecture for “Processable” Bulk Data”,” International Conference on Grid Computing, High-Performance and Distributed Applications (GADA’07), Nov 2007.

Navdeep Kapoor, Shikharesh Majumdar, and Biswajit Nandy, “Matching of Independent Jobs on a Computing Grid,” International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS’07), Jul 2007.