Research Interests:
  • Concurrency and synchronization related issues in shared memory, multithreaded, distributed, mobile, and ad hoc systems.
  • Design and Implementation Issues in Sensor Networks for Remote Monitoring Applications.
  • Bioinformatic algorithms - sequence analysis and alignment, datamining.
  • Modeling and simulation of complex dynamic systems.
  • Mobility, communication, routing, connectivity, coverage, and tracking related issues in wired, wireless, mobile, sensor, and pervasive networks.
  • CPU Scheduling and resource management for realtime and embedded systems.
Graduate Students
  • Current
    1. Hassan Tahir
    2. Baldeep
    3. Farhad Norouzi
    4. Viswanathan Manickam
  • Past
    1. Young Sun (2002-2004) (Motorola, China)
    2. Baljeet S. Malhotra (2003-2005)(PhD Student, University of Alberta)
    3. Xiang Cui (2004-2006) (CheckWell, Canada)
    4. Jeyaprakash Chelladurai (2004 - 2006)(PhD student, University of Calgary)
    5. Srinivas Manepalli (2005-2007)
    6. Bharath Reddy (2006-2009) (Clynch Technologies Inc., Calgary, Canada)
    7. Julius Bankole (2006-2009)
To become my graduate student

Undergraduate Research Projects
Selected Recent Publications:
  1. Alex A. Aravind, Yet Another Simple Solution for the Concurrent Programming Control Problem, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, In Press, 2010.
  2. Alex A. Aravind and Wim H. Hesselink, Nonatomic Bakery Algorithm with Bounded Tokens, Submitted to Distributed Computing, 2009.
  3. Wim H. Hesselink and Alex A. Aravind, Queue Based Mutual Exclusion with Linearly Bounded Overtaking, Submitted to Science of Computer Programming, 2009.
  4. Waqar Haque, Alex Aravind, Bharath Reddy, Pairwise Sequence Alignment Algorithms - A Survey, International Conference on Information Science, Technology and Applications (ISTA09), ACM Press, 111-118, 2009.
  5. Alex A. Aravind and Wim H. Hesselink, A Queue Based Mutual Exclusion Algorithm, Acta Informatica, 46:73-86, 2009.
  6. Alex A. Aravind, Hassan Tahir, and Baldeep, RealMobiSim: Realistic Mobility Simulator and Analyzer, Proc. of the ACM PM2HW2N, ACM Press, 186-189, 2008.
  7. Waqar Haque, Alex A. Aravind, Bharath Reddy, An Efficient Algorithm for Local Sequence Alignment, Proc. of 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE-EMB, 1367-1372, 2008.
  8. Alex A. Aravind and Xiang Cui, RMobiGen: A Trace Generation, Visualization, and Performance Analysis Tool for Random Mobility Models, Proc. of the High Performance Computing and Simulation Symposium, (ACM/SIGSIM,SpringSim), ACM Press, 403-412, 2008.
  9. V.L. Narasimhan, Alex A. Aravind, and Ken Bever, Greenhouse Asset Management Using Wireless Sensor-Actor Networks, Proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM07), IEEE Computer Society Press, 9-14, 2007.
  10. Srinivas Manepalli and Alex A. Aravind, Handoff Management Schemes for HCN/WLAN Interworking, Proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Telecommunications and Networking, Springer-Verlag, 2007.
  11. Alex A. Aravind, A Simple and Efficient Solution for Room Synchronization Problem in Distributed Computing, Proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, Springer-Verlag, 2007.
  12. Baljeet S. Malhotra and Alex A. Aravind, Path-Adaptive On-site Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, E89-D(2):536-545, 2006.
  13. Alex A. Aravind and Jeyaprakash Chelladurai, Activation-Adjusted Scheduling Algorithms for Real-Time Systems, Proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, Springer-Verlag, 425-432, 2006.
  14. Alex A. Aravind, An Arbitration Algorithm for Multiport Memory Systems, IEICE Electronics Express, 2(19):1-7, 2005.
  15. K. Alagarsamy, A Mutual Exclusion Algorithm with Optimally Bounded Bypasses, Information Processing Letters, 96:36-40, 2005.