Curriculum Vitae - The University of Texas at Dallas

1990s, we designed and implemented flexible systems that could handle adaptive protocols. This meantthe system can select the protocol such as TCP/IP or UDP or in the case of the data manager, the type oftransaction algorithm to be used. This was the first effort that considered adaptive approaches. Wedocumented the results in Paper #4 (IEEE ISADS).Secure Real-time Object Management: One significant impact of our research is the transfer of thetechnology to standards effort. In 1994 with some inputs from colleagues, I developed concepts onintegrating real-time and security into object request brokers. This work was presented at the ACMOOPSLA conference workshop in real-time object systems on real-time object request brokers. This paperis widely cited. I was then invited to give talks at several panels on this topic. The Object ManagementGroup was interested and invited me to help establish a special interest group in 1996. Together with theMITRE team, we continued to enhance the research and collaborated with the University of Rhode Islandand the Navy and subsequently contributed substantially towards the research of real-time object requestbrokers. The research was published as a team paper in Paper #5 (IEEE Transactions on Parallel andDistributed Systems).Secure Real-time Systems: In Paper #6 (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering) Iexamined the integration of security into the infrastructure. I was the first to introduce security with realtimeprocessing back in 1992. Therefore, I expanded my earlier research and developed a solution for aninfrastructure and data manager that incorporated both security and real-time processing with some inputsfrom my colleague at MITRE. I continued with this research when I joined the university in 2004 and oneof my students was very interested in following up on the ideas I presented in Paper #4. Together with mystudent, we designed and developed a system called Real-time TMO (Time-Triggered Message-TriggeredObject) which incorporated security into the TMO system. TMO was designed at the University ofCalifornia Irvine and is a real-time object system. By incorporating security into the system, I believe thatwe developed the first real-time and secure system based on objects. This research was published in Paper#7 (IEEE ISORC). This research has spawned many new research directions including the Cyber PhysicalSystems that are very popular today.1. Object-oriented Implementation of an Infrastructure and Data Manager for Real-time Commandand Control Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-time Systems,Laguna Beach, CA, February 1996 (co-authors: E. Bensley, P. Krupp, R.A. Sigel, M. Squadrito,T. Wheeler). Lead AuthorMy Contribution: This is a MITRE Team effort. The principal members of the team included EdBensley (Principal Investigator), Peter Krupp, Tom Wheeler and myself. I was responsible for thedesign of the real-time data manager and a key member of the infrastructure component. I wrotethe entire paper from the technical reports.2. Object Technology for the Integration of Infrastructure, Data Manager, and Tracker forCommand and Control Applications, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Object-OrientedReal-time Systems (WORDS), Newport Beach, CA, February 1997 (co-authors: M. Gates, P.Krupp, J. Maurer, M. Squadrito, T. Wheeler). Lead AuthorMy Contribution: This is a MITRE Team effort. The principal members of the team included EdBensley (Principal Investigator), Peter Krupp, Tom Wheeler, Mike Gates. Mike Squadrito andmyself. I was responsible for the design of the real-time data manager and supervised theimplementation by Mr. Squadrito. I wrote the entire paper from the technical reports.3. Scheduling and Priority Mapping for Static Real-time Middleware, Real-time Systems Journal(Kluwer), Vol. 20, No. 2, p. 155-182, 2001 (co-author: V. Wolfe, L. DiPippo et al). Co-AuthorMy Contribution: I conceived the idea of applying the priority ceiling algorithm to our problemfor AWACS and developed the initial algorithm. The details were carried out by the students atthe University of Rhode Island. Much of the writing was carried out by the University of RI.105