The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of Computer Science
Real-Time & Distributed Systems Research Group

Dissertations & Theses of DiRT Students
(Listed in reverse chronological order)

Concur: An Investigation of Lightweight Migration in Support of Centralized Synchronous Distributed Collaboration

John M. Menges, Ph.D. 2009

Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
August 2009.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PDF copy of the dissertation (5.8 MB uncompressed).

Passive, Automatic Detection of Network Server Performance Anomalies in Large Networks

Jeffrey S. Terrell, Ph.D. 2009

Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
August 2009.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PDF copy of the dissertation (5.8 MB uncompressed).

Co-Scheduling Variable Execution Time Requirement Real-Time Tasks and Non Real-Time Tasks

Abhishek Singh, Ph.D. 2009

Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
May 2008.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PDF copy of the dissertation (5.8 MB uncompressed).

Generation and Validation of Empirically-Derived TCP Application Workloads

Felix Hernandez-Campos, Ph.D. 2006

Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
May 2006.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PDF copy of the dissertation (5.8 MB uncompressed).

Investigating the Effects of Active Queue Management on the Performance of TCP Applications

Nguyen Tuong Long Le, Ph.D. 2005

Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
December 2005.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PDF copy of the dissertation (11.3 MB uncompressed).

Adapting a Collaborative, Force-Feedback, Graphical User Interface to Best-Effort Networks

Thomas C. Hudson, Ph.D. 2004

Technical Report TR04-021
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
April 2004.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PostScript copy of the dissertation (2 Mb compressed) - or - a PDF copy of the dissertation (1.6 MB uncompressed).

Investigating the Use of Synchronized Clocks in TCP Congestion Control

Michele Aylene Clark Weigle, Ph.D. 2003

Technical Report TR03-038
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
August 2003.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PostScript copy of the dissertation (28 Mb compressed) - or - a PDF copy of the dissertation (10 MB uncompressed).

The Performance of HTTP Traffic Under Random Early Detection Queue Management

Mikkel Christiansen, Ph.D. 2002

Department of Computer Science
Aalborg University, Denmark
(Reseach performed at UNC while Mikkel was a visiting scholar.)
January 2002.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PostScript copy of the dissertation (14 Mb compressed) - or - a PDF copy of the dissertation (6.5 MB uncompressed).

Class-Based Thresholds: Lightweight Active Router-Queue Management for Multimedia Networking

Mark A. Parris, Ph.D. 2001

Technical Report TR01-034
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
August 2001.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PostScript copy of the dissertation (2.6 Mb compressed) - or - a PDF copy of the dissertation.

Quality of Service Issues for the UNC Nanomanipulator

Ramkumar Parameswaran, M.Sc. 2000

Technical Report
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
June 2000.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PostScript copy of the thesis - or - a PDF copy of the thesis.

On the Management of Latency in the Synthesis of Real-Time Signal Processing Systems from Processing Graphs

Steve Goddard, Ph.D. 1998

Technical Report TR98-027
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
August, 1998.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PostScript copy of the dissertation - or - a PDF copy of the dissertation.

Slotted Priorities: Supporting Real-Time Computing Within General-Purpose Operating Systems

Gregory Bollella, Ph.D. 1997

Technical Report TR97-02
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
December, 1997.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PostScript copy of the dissertation - or - a PDF copy of the dissertation.

A Lock-Free Approach to Object Sharing in Real-Time Systems

Srikanth Ramamurthy, Ph.D. 1997

Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
August, 1997.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PDF copy of the dissertation.

Experimental Evaluation of Two-Dimensional Media Scaling Techniques for Internet Videoconferencing

Peter A. Nee, M.Sc. 1997

Technical Report TR97-02
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
August, 1997.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PostScript copy of the thesis - or - a PDF copy of the thesis.

A Transmission Control Framework for Continuous Media

Terry M. Talley, Ph.D. 1997

Technical Report TR97-02
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
May, 1997.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PostScript copy of the dissertation - or - a PDF copy of the dissertation.

Managing the Effect of Delay Jitter on the Display of Live Continuous Media

Donald L. Stone, Ph.D. 1995

Technical Report TR95-02
Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
July, 1995.

Click here to get the abstract - or - a PostScript copy of the dissertation - or - a PDF copy of the dissertation.

Accommodating Latecomers in a System For Synchronous Collaboration

Goopeel Chung, MSc. 1991

Click here to get the abstract of the thesis.

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