PETER STEENKISTE

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science

CONTACT INFO

Mailing Address 
Carnegie Mellon
ECE Department
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA

Phone: 412-268-3261
Fax: 412-268-5576
Office: WeH 8202
Email: prs@cs.cmu.edu

Personal Home Page

Secretary 
Barbara Sandling
Phone: 412-268-8860
Email:sandling@cs.cmu.edu

University of Ghent, Belgium, Electrical Engineer, 1982
Stanford University, MS, 1983
Stanford University, PhD, 1987

Carnegie Mellon, 1987-present

RESEARCH 

Research Interests 

Dr. Steenkiste's research interests are in the areas of computer networking and distributed systems. He is specifically interested in developing techniques that make networks significantly more useful to applications. While some improvements in network technology do not depend on how the network is used (e.g., incremental bandwidth increases), many optimizations depend on the application's communication behavior. Examples include network quality of service, application-level congestion avoidance and network monitoring in support of network-aware applications. As a result, his research often involves collaboration with network users.

He is currently working on the Darwin project. The goal of Darwin is to define, implement and evaluate "application-aware" resource management mechanisms for networks. The idea is that, given the wide diversity in network applications, networks will have to be able to support quality of service models that can be customized by applications. This is achieved by letting the application participate in resource management, so that network resources are applied in a way that is most effective for the application.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• P. Chandra, A. Fisher, C. Kosak, T.S.E. Ng, P. Steenkiste, E. Takahashi and H. Zhang, "Darwin: Customizable Resource Management for Value-Added Network Services," IEEE 6th International Conference on Network Protocols, Austin, Texas, October 1998.
• B. Lowekamp, N. Miller, D. Sutherland, T. Gross, P. Steenkiste and J. Subhlok, "A Resource Query Interface for Network-Aware Applications," 7th IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing, Chicago, Ill., July 1998.
• Q. Ma and P. Steenkiste, "On Path Selection for Traffic with Bandwidth Guarantees," 5th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Atlanta, Ga., October 1997.
• J. Brustoloni and P. Steenkiste, "The Effects Buffering Semantics on I/O Performance," 2nd Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation, Usenix/ACM, Seattle, Wash., pp. 277-291, October 1996.