Chung-Horng Lung Department of Systems and Computer Engineering

Email: chlung@sce.carleton.ca Tel: +1 613 520-2600 ext. 2642 Fax: +1 613 520-5727 Office: Mackenzie Building, Room 4434

Post-Doc Fellows (First or Current Employment):

· Aris Leivadeas, (Faculty, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada)

· Mohammad Aazam, (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar), (co-supervision with Prof. I. Lambadaris and Prof. M. St-Hilaire)

· Yang Cao, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

· Yugui Cai, (Irdeto, Ottawa)

· Jiehan Zhou, (Univ. of Oulu, Finland)

· Benjamin F. Zhong, (Innovapost Canada)

· Ashraf Matrawy, (Faculty, School of Information Technology, Carleton University), (co-supervision with Prof. I. Lambadaris)

Past PhD Students (First or Current Employment):

• Afsane Zahmatkesh, (Superna), Cost-Effective Algorithms for the Controller Placement Problem in Software-Defined Multihop Wireless Networks, May 2021.
• Ahmed Raoof, (Communications Security Establishment, Canada), Secure Routing and Forwarding in RPL-based Internet of Things: Challenges and Solutions, (co-supervision with Prof. A. Matrawy), nominated for Senate Medal for outstanding Academic Achievement, May 2021.
• Zhe Zhang, (Faculty, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Performance Improvements of In-network Caching in ICN-Based Networks, (co-supervision with Prof. M. St-Hilaire and Prof. I. Lambadaris), Sept. 2019
• Ali Yadavar Nikravesh, (Microsoft), Self-Adaptive Auto-Scaling System in Infrastructure-as-a-Service Layer of Cloud Computing, (co-supervision with Prof. S. Ajila), Aug. 2016.
• Perumalraja Rengaraju, (Faculty, Department of Information Technology, Velammal College of Engineering & Technology, India), Protection and Security Aware QoS Framework for 4G Multihop Wireless Networks, (co-supervision with Dr. Anand Srinivasan), Sept. 2013.
• Yang Cao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Message Processing on XML-based Publish/Subscribe Systems, (co-supervision with Prof. S. Majumdar), Sept. 2012.
• Hassan Halabian, (Ericsson, Canada), Stability Analysis and Optimal Control of Multi-server Wireless Queueing Systems, (co-supervision with Prof. I. Lambadaris), Aug. 2012.
• Ilia Polushin, (Faculty, Department of ECE, University of Western Ontario), Projection-Based Force Reflection Algorithm for Stable Bilateral Teleoperation over Networks, (co-supervision with Prof. P. Liu), Dec. 2008. Received the Senate Medal for outstanding Academic Achievement in Winter 2009.

Past Masters Students (First or Current Employment):

Completed by Thesis:

• Igor Bogdanov, Design and Gradient-Free Adaptation of Compound LLM Agents in a Partially Observable Adversarial Networked Environment, (nominated for the Senate Medal) May 2026.
• Yifei Zhang (Solana Networks), Correlation-Aware Variational Autoencoder (CAVAD) with Cross-Attention for Zero-Day Network Anomaly Detection, Sept 2025.
• John Bousfield (Ericsson, Canada), Indoor Radio Dot Placement Optimization using UE Positioning and K-Means Clustering, (co-supervision with Dr. Betty Liu), April 2024.
• Abdul Mutakabbir (Full time PhD student), Multi-Modality Federated Learning with Multi-Source Data for Forest, (co-supervision with Prof. S. Ajila), May 2023.
• Sushmi Thushara Sukumar (Honeywell, Canada), Knowledge Graph Generation for Unstructured Data Using Data Processing Pipeline, Jan 2023.
• Raveen Narendra Babu (Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group), Using Detection Transformers and Bipartite Matching for Document Layout Analysis Transfer Learning, Jan 2023.
• Joshua Wilson (Replicant), Using Detection Transformers and Bipartite Matching for Document Layout Analysis Transfer Learning, Jan 2023.
• Ziqiang Wang (Ciena), Design and Implementation of a Reliable Container-based Service Function Chaining Testbed in Cloud-native System: An Open Source Approach, (co-supervision with Prof. C. Huang), Sept 2022.
• Yao (Mia) Wei (Ericsson, Canada), Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Assisted Pre-connect Handover Management, (co-supervision with Prof. S. Ajila), Aug 2022.
• Jyoti Budakoti (Ericsson, Canada), An IoT Gateway Middleware for Interoperability in SDN Managed Internet of Things, Jan 2018.
• Amit Gaur (Ericsson, Canada), Containerized IoT Solution for Efficient Mobile Vertical Handover, Jan 2018.
• Ose Osamudiamen (IBM, Canada), Segment Routing Green Spine Switch Management Systems for DCN, Jan 2018.
• Xing Fan (Data Analytics Startup), An Adaptive Diversity-Based Ensemble Method for Binary Classification, (co-supervision with Prof. S. Ajila), Sept. 2016.
• Yuqing Qiu, (Ceridian), Evaluating and Improving LXC Container Migration between Cloudlets Using Multipath TCP (co-supervision with Prof. S. Ajila), Aug. 2016.
• Abhinandan Ramaprasath, (Shopify), Design and Analysis of an Intelligent Wireless Ad Hoc Routing Protocol and Controller for UAV Networks, (co-supervision with Prof. M. St-Hilaire), March 2016.
• Man Si, (Ciena), Investigation of Mobile Network Traffic Using Hadoop and Mahout Machine Learning Methods, (co-supervision with Prof. S. Ajila), Aug. 2015.
• Xiaolin Li, (CISCO), An Energy Aware Green Spine Switch Management System in Spine-Leaf Datacenter Network, (co-supervision with Prof. S. Majumdar), Dec. 2014.
• Fikirte Abebe Teka, (Nokia), Seamless Live Virtual Machine Migration for Cloudlet Users with Multipath TCP, (co-supervision with Prof. S. Ajila), Sept. 2014.
• Kelie Zhan (Shared Services Canada), A Green Analysis of Computation Offloading for Mobile Applications, May 2014.
• M. F. Rabbi Ur Rashid, (CheckPoint Software Technologies), Combining SPF and Source Routing for an Efficient Probing Solution in IPv6 Topology Discovery, (co-supervision with Prof. M. St-Hilaire), May 2014.
• Jiang Zhu (WIND Mobile), Hybrid Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, Sept. 2012.
• Stevan Novakov (CISCO), Combining Statistical and Spectral Analysis Techniques in Network Traffic Anomaly Detection, (co-supervision with Prof. I. Lambadaris), May 2012.
• Basil Saeed (Nokia and PhD student at Carleton Univ.), Performance Evaluation of Multimedia Broadcast Applications with Network Coding in Ad Hoc Wireless Mesh Networks, May 2011.
• Wen-lin Liu (Synopsis), The impact of Aspect-Oriented Programming on Software Performance: The Case Study of Leader/Followers and Half-Sync/Half-Async Concurrent Architectural Patterns, (co-supervision with Prof. S. Ajila), Nov. 2010.
• Abdel Rabassa (Canada Border Services Agency), Simulation Platform for the Planning and Design of Networks Carrying VoIP Traffic, (co-supervision with Prof. M. St- Hilaire), May 2010.
• Xu Zhang (BoHaiXinDa Communication Engineering, China), An Architecture-based Self-Adaptive Framework for Performance and Reliability Improvement, Jan. 2010.
• Yingjun Jiang (Cistech), Tree-based Multiple-Hop Distributed Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, Sept. 2009.
• Liang Dai (Canadian Food Inspection Agency), XML Message Filtering and Matching in Publish/Subscribe Systems, (co-supervision with Prof. S. Majumdar.), Sept. 2009.
• Abdallah Ismael (IT Industry, Jordan), Performance of Real-Time Remote Control Systems in the ISM Band, (co-supervision with Prof. Lambadaris), Jan. 2009.
• Yifan Zhao (Shaanxi Zhongtian Sensor Dynamic LLC, China), A Hybrid Location Identification Method in Wireless Ad Hoc/Sensor Networks, (co-supervision with Prof. I. Lambadaris), May 2008.
• Chenjuan Zhou (Electronic Arts), Application and Evaluation of Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks, Jan 2008.
• Jie Liu, (Ericsson, Canada), Optimal User Authentication Schemes in Wireless Ad hoc Networks, (co-supervision with Prof. Y.R. Yu), Sept 2007.
• Yi Qu, (Nortel Networks), Channel Assignment in Multi-Channel Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, May 2007.
• Brad Whitehead, (Google and Founder of Ankora Technologies: http://www.ankoratech.com), Binned Duration Flow Tracking and Symmetric Connection Detection, Jan. 2007.
• Nadia Ramirez Moreno (Ericsson, Canada), Performance Evaluation of an Adaptive PI Rate Control Algorithm for Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks, (co-supervision with Prof. O. Yang at U. of Ottawa), Jan. 2007.
• Prabhdeep Grewal, (MapleWorks), Multiple Constraint Based Routing and Probing in Data Networks, (continued supervision of the late Professor Sivarama Dandamudi), Sept 2006.
• Yuekang Yang, (CISCO and Ph.D. student), QoS Routing Using Traffic Forecast: A Study Case of Time-Dependent Routing, Aug 2004.
• Jing Zhi, (Ciena), Securing RSVP and RSVP-TE signaling protocols and their performance study, (co-supervision with Adjunct Prof. Anand Srinivasan) Aug 2004.
• Xia Xu, (Nortel Networks), Program Restructuring Using Clustering Techniques, May 2004.
• Qi Wang, (Nortel Networks), Fair-Share Scheduler for Computing and Telecommunication Systems, (co-supervision with Prof. S. Majumdar), Jan 2004.
• Vandana Gupta, (Cistel Technology), A Study of Estimation Techniques of Software Defect Content, Oct 2003.
• Yi Lei, MASc., (Freescale), MPLS Protection for Ethernet-Based Network, Sept 2003.
• Pengfei Wu, (Blackboard and Ph.D. student), A Performance Model for a Network of Prototype Software Routers, (co-supervision with Prof. M. Woodside), July 2003.

Completed by M.Eng. (ECE) Project:

· Ritesh Panday, (Transport Canada), Unstructured Transportation Safety Board Findings Categorization Using the Knowledge Graph Pipeline, Aug. 2023.

· Atinderpal Singh Lakhan, (Crypto4A Technologies, co-supervision with Prof. Jun Huang), Scaling Quantum-Resistant Multivariate Polynomial Public Key Digital Signature (MPPK/DS) Scheme for its Software Implementation on 5G Networks, April 2023.

· Chandan Sai Chebrolu (Ansys, co-supervision with Prof. Ajila), Dynamic Packet Filtering Using Machine learning, May 2022.

· Soummyo Priyo Chattopadhyay (Deloitte), Investigation of INT, P4 and Segment Routing, May 2021.

· Ricky Siek (Carleton University, co-supervision with Prof. Ajila), Investigation of 5G Network for Resource Management, Dec. 2020.

· Fatima Fouzia (Ericsson, Canada), A Survey on Software-Defined Netwroking, Its Emerging Network Applications and Experiments on SD-WiFi, Dec. 2020.

· Mitulkumar Gajera, (Digital Main Street), Experimental demonstration of Segment Routing (SR) and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Technology, April 2020.

· Parth Patel, (Shopify), Experimental Demonstration of Segment Routing (SR) and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Technology, April 2020.

· Kavyashree Puttaswami, (Ciena), Enhanced Handover Process for Reliable Video Streaming over SDN-based Wireless Networking, Dec. 2019.

· Nikhil Shetty, (Fortinet), Comprehensive Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Intrusion Detection using Standard Network Datasets and Implementation of a Mitigation Technique using MTD, Dec. 2019.

· Amith Suresh Mali, (ZeroTek), Detection and Mitigation of DDoS Attacks SDN based Networks using Machine Learning, Dec. 2019.

· Tarim Islam, (Xplornet Communications), DDoS Detection and Mitigation in SDN-WISE IoT Network by Using Various Machine Learning Techniques, Aug. 2019.

· Navid Hossain, (Transcom), DDoS Detection and Mitigation in SDN-WISE IoT Network by Using Various Machine Learning Techniques, Aug. 2019.

· Saumil MacWan, (Ribbon Communication), Investigation of Moving Target Defense Technique to Prevent Poisoning Attacks in SDN, April 2019.

· Jayanshu Gundaniya, (Blackberry/QNX), Implementation IoT Applictions as Microservices, April 2019.

· Dhavel Vasveliya, (Lar-Mex, co-supervision with Prof. Ajila), IoT Network Security – Blockchain Approach, April 2019.

· Naveen sai Muthyala (SnowM Inc.), Internet Traffic Classification using Machine Learning, April 2019.

· Obaid Rahman, (Larus Technologies), DDoS Attacks Detection and Mitigation in SDN through Machine-Learning, April 2019.

· Mohammad Ali Gauhar Quraishi, (CareFor), DDoS Attacks Detection and Mitigation in SDN through Machine-Learning, April 2019.

· Abbas Mohamed Saied, DDoS Attacks Detection and Mitigation in SDN through Machine-Learning, April 2019.

· Anurag Das (FDM Group, co-supervision with Prof. Ajila), Machine Learning for Network Intrusion Detection : Analysis and Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms and Relevant Features for Detecting Cyber-attacks, Dec. 2018.

· Sandra Rotaru (Checkpoint Software Technologies), Investigation of Security in Software-Defined Networks and Service Function Chaining, Dec. 2018.

· Ritvik Pandey (Checkpoint Software Technologies), Investigation of Security in Software-Defined Networks and Service Function Chaining, Dec. 2018.

· Subhajit Chatterjee (Ericsson, Canada), A Survey of Collaborative Caching in IoT and ICN as a Solution, Dec. 2018.

· Harpreet Dhaliwal (Honeywell, Canada), Load Balancing using ECMP in Multi-Stage Clos Topology, April 2018.

· Henan Kottayil Hyder (Ciena), Closed Loop Real Time DDoS Mitigation In SDN, April 2018.

· Manveer Singh, (Morgan Stanley), Detection and Mitigation of DDoS Attacks in SDN, Dec 2017.

· Avneet Behl (Akamai), Closed loop DoS Attack Mitigation System for SDN, Dec 2017.

· Bhumika Patel (Data Analyst, TD Bank), Hybrid Machine Learning Techniques for Network Intrusion Detection, Dec 2017.

· Zaheenabanu Somani (Ceridian), Hybrid Machine Learning Techniques for Network Intrusion Detection, Dec 2017.

· Linda Shi (Nokia), SD-VPN for IoT Networks, Aug 2017.

· Fei Wang (NetBrain Technologies), SD-VPN for IoT Networks, Aug 2017.

· Aarti ., OPNFV Fast Data Stack (FDS), April 2017.

· Manjot K. Sidhu (Nova Networks), Network Architecture and QoS Study on Software Defined LTE Vehicluar Networks, April 2017.

· Sudhanshu Dogra, (CGI), Network Architecture and QoS Study on Software-Defined LTE Vehicular Networks, Dec. 2016.

· Abhishek Ajith Prasad, (Dynamic Strategy Inc.), SDN -NFV Realizing OpenDaylight-Docker-WordPress, Dec. 2016.

· Harpreet Kumar, (Harris Corporation), SDN -NFV Realizing OpenDaylight-Docker-WordPress, Dec. 2016.

· Manosh Jayawardena, (Telus), Evaluation of Traffic Engineering Mechanisms in Software-Defined Networks, Aug.2016.

· Sameer Sultan, (Government), Evaluation of Traffic Engineering Mechanisms in Software-Defined Networks, Aug.2016.

· Sankarshan Sakkarepattana Nagaraja Rao, (Evertz Microsystems), A Heuristic Caching Algorithm for Information-Centric Networks, Aug. 2016.

· Yuji Qiu, (Epiphan Systems), Data Analytics for the Repeat Customers, April 2016.

· Tejasvi Patel, (FDM Consulting), Analysis of Cloud Security Monitoring Tools, April 2016.

· Ronak Vyas, (Amdocs), Performance Evaluation and Testing of Service Function Chaining, April 2016.

· Harpal Singh, (Phreesia), Multipath TCP, April 2016.

· Karamjit Kaur, (Phreesia), Multipath TCP, April 2016.

· Gaganpal Bhasin, (FDM Consulting), SDN-NFV: Realizing OpenDayLight – Docker, April 2016.

· Jagmeet Randhawa, (Trend Mirco), SDN-NFV: Realizing OpenDayLight – Docker, April 2016.

· Wenjing Han, (Filecatalyst), Software Defect Prediction using Machine Learning Techniques and Hadoop, Mahout and R, Dec. 2015.

· Bhargav Suchak (Amdocs), Simulation of a Content Delivery Network on a Cloud (AWS) Platform, April 2015.

· Shrijit Das, (Thales, Canada), Software Defined Networks: Application Development for Floodlight Controller, April 2015.

· Mandeep Kaur Guraya, (Nokia), Experimental Framework to Evaluate The Impact of Software-Defined Networks’ Reactive Routing on Bittorrent’s Performance, Dec. 2014.

· Rupinder Singh Bajwa, (Nokia), Experimental Framework to Evaluate The Impact of Software-Defined Networks’ Reactive Routing on Bittorrent’s Performance, Dec. 2014.

· Lakshmi Ramanathan, (CISCO), LISP - SDN for NFV, Dec. 2014.

· Jagannath Chandrakanth, (Fortinet), Content Distribution Networks Using Software Defined Networks, Dec. 2014.

· Pradeepti Chollangi (CheckPoint Software Technologies), Content Distribution Networks Using Software Defined Networks, Dec. 2014.

· Tahmina Taher, (Government of Canada), Performance Evaluation of NoSQL Database Systems, Sept. 2014.

· Raviraj Vaghani, (Nokia), A Comparison of Data Forwarding Schemes for Network Resiliency in Software Defined Networking, May 2014.

· Vignesh Renganathan Raja (Ciena), An Openflow Controller Design for Failure Detection and Protection for a Multicasting Tree, May 2014.

· Abhishek Pandey, (Eclipsys Solutions) An Openflow Controller Design for Failure Detection and Protection for a Multicasting Tree, May 2014.

· Gurjot Kaur Garcha, Content Distribution in Software Defined Networks, May 2014.

· Kailash Singh, (RCom), Design and Investigation of Layer 3 VPNs, May 2014.

· Akshit Purohit, (SMITH), Concurrency Architecture Framework: Dynamic Thread Creation by Variability Management, May 2014.

· Li Wang, (Program Analyst, Statistics Canada, co-supervision with Prof. S. Majumdar), NFC Based Access Control and Information Dissemination System, Aug. 2013.

· Sidhant Sharma (Halogen Software), Energy Measurement for Mobile Cloud Computing, Aug. 2013.

· Akhil Bansal, (Afilias), Bandwidth Shaping in a Cloud Environment under Linux: an Extension to CASViD, April 2013.

· Mohammed Sanaullah, (Nova Networks), Performance Evaluation of XML Message Filtering Using Cloud Computing, April 2013.

· Utkarsh Kanabar, (Halogen Software), Cloud Architecture for Service Level Agreement Violation Detection, Dec. 2012.

· Michael Hay, (IBM Canada), Network Coding and Quality of Service for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, Aug. 2012.

· Wenwei Chen (Health Canada), Cloud Computing: Security Issues and Challenges, Aug. 2012.

· Vaibhav Sharma (Telus), Approaches to QoS and Reliability in Cloud Computing and Networking, May 2012.

· Kavita Tiwari, (Ericsson, Canada), A Survey and Analysis of Self-Adaptive Systems for Service-Oriented, Virtualized, and Cloud Computing Environments, May 2012.

· Chandan Mohapatra (Nokia, formerly Alcatel-Lucent), Next Generation Laboratory: J-Series, EX-Series & IXIA, (co-supervision with Prof. I. Lambadaris) May 2011.

· Pragash Rajeswaran (CIENA, formerly Nortel), Random Early Detection Technique Based Self-Adaptive Policy, May 2011.

· Hamid Mottaghi (FavaPars), Packet Length and Port-based IDS Using a Distributed Cluster Scheme for MANETs, May 2011.

Completed by M.Cs. (Computer Science) Project:

• Guoming Wei (Nortel Networks), Protecting a MPLS Multicast Session Tree with Bounded Switchover Time, May 2008.
• Shegupta Yasmeen (Performance Technology), Security and Performance Evaluation of Web Services, Dec. 2007.
• Qiang Zhao, (Adobe), Pattern-Oriented Software Reengineering of a Network Traffic Engineering System, Jan 2003.