Hussam Abu-Libdeh

About

As of January 2008 I am a PhD student in the department of Computer Science at Cornell University. I work in the distributed systems group with professor Ken Birman.

I am interested in cloud computing and distributed systems in data center settings. My research so far has focused on managing multicast communication in managed domains. However I am also broadly intersted in other research areas such as mechanisms to provide "trust guarantees" to web applications users, and providing cloud-computing services on edge machines.

I graduated in the summer of 2007 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I pursued a bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

Papers

• H. Abu-Libdeh, Y. Vigfusson, K. Birman, M. Balakrishnan. Ajil: Distributed Rate-limiting for Multicast Networks. Technical Report. December 2008 (pdf)
• Y. Vigfusson, H. Abu-Libdeh, M. Balakrishnan, K. Birman, Y. Tock. Dr. Multicast: Rx for Datacenter Communication Scalability. HotNets VII: Seventh ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks. October 6-7, 2008. Calgary, Canada. (pdf)

Teaching

In Spring 2009 I taught CS 2026; Introduction to C# Programming.

Miscellaneous

• Co-founded Kindisoft Co. in 2005 where we created obfuscation solutions for Rich Internet Applications (RIA).
• eSheet.net is a small web app built to track shared expenses between roommates and co-workers.
• I maintain the schedule for the distributed systems group talks here.