About Me

I am a second year Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Computer Science advised by Dr. James H. Anderson. I am working in the Real-Time Systems Group on multiprocessor real-time systems. I am interested in real-time systems, operating systems, and real-time synchronization protocols.

I received a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering and a B.A. in Mathematics with honors in Computer Science from Bucknell University in 2011. At Bucknell, I worked with Dr. Felipe Perrone to develop tools for automating network simulation experiments to ensure the credibility of results.

Publications

  1. Bryan C. Ward, Jeremy P. Erickson and James H. Anderson. "A Linear Model for Setting Priority Points in Soft Real-Time Systems", (in submission). [PDF]
  2. Bryan C. Ward and James H. Anderson. "Multi-Resource Real-Time Reader/Writer Locks for Multiprocessors", (in submission). [PDF]
  3. Bryan C. Ward, Jonathan L. Herman, Christopher J. Kenna, and James H. Anderson. "Making Shared Caches More Predictable on Multicore Platforms", (in submission). [PDF].
  4. L. Felipe Perrone, Christopher S. Main, and Bryan C. Ward. "SAFE: Simulation Automation Framework for Experiments", Proceedings of the 44th Winter Simulation Conference, December 2012. [PDF].
  5. Bryan C. Ward, Glenn A. Elliott and James H. Anderson. "Replica-Request Priority Donation: A Real-Time Progress Mechanism for Global Locking Protocols", Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applciations, August 2012. [PDF].
  6. Bryan C. Ward and James H. Anderson. "Supporting Nested Locking in Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems", Proceedings of the 24th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, July 2012. [PDF]. Longer version with additional details: [PDF].
  7. Bryan C. Ward. "A Framework for the Automation of Discrete-Event Simulation Experiments", Bucknell University Honors Thesis, 2011. [PDF].
  8. Nathan Ryan, Bryan C. Ward and Ryan Ward. "Some Conjectures on the Maximal Height of the Divisors of "x^n - 1". Involve, a Journal of Mathematics. Volume 3, Issue 4, pp. 451-457. December 2010.[Involve] [BibTeX].
  9. Andrew Hallagan, Bryan C. Ward, and L. Felipe Perrone. "An Experiment Automation Framework for ns-3", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2010). ICST, March 2010.
    [Poster PDF] [Extended Abstract PDF] [BibTeX].
  10. L. Felipe Perrone, Claudio Cicconetti, Giovanni Stea, and Bryan C. Ward. "On the Automation of Computer Network Simulators", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulations Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2009). ICST, March 2009.[ACM] [BibTeX].
  11. L. Felipe Perrone, Christopher J. Kenna, and Bryan C. Ward. "Enhancing the Credibility of Wireless Network Simulations with Experiment Automation", Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Wireless & Mobile Computing, Networking & Communication (WiMoB 2008). IEEE, October 2008.[IEEE] [BibTeX].