CVs of key persons

Associate Professor Aruna Seneviratne
School of Electrical Engineering,
University of Technology, Sydney

Aruna Seneviratne has a B.Sc (Hons) from Middlesex University in Electronic Engineering and a Ph.D from the University of Bath. He has worked in industry and academia in the UK and Australia. He currently leads a team working in the area of multi-media communication systems, and is the Director of the Telecommunications group at UTS.

Sample Publications:

• Zhang, X.; Seneviratne, A. "An Efficient Implementation of a High Speed Protocol Without Data Copying." 15th Annual Conf. on Local Computer Networks (Minnesota) 1990.

• Ginige, A., Seneviratne, A., Gonzalez, R., Chandra, S. "An Experimental Multi-media System" 4th IEEE ComSoc, (California) 1992.

• Samaramadu, V.; Seneviratne, A. " A Transport Level Inter media Synchronization Mechanism" 2nd Aust. Broadband Switching and Signalling Symp., (Australia) 1992.

• Withana, V.; Seneviratne, A.,"Operating System Support for Multi-media applications" ICCC'93, (Canada) 1993.

• Richards, A., Ginige, T., Seneviratne, A., Fry, M. "DARTS - A Dynamically Adaptable Transport Service Suitable for High Speed Networks" 2nd International Symp. on High-Performance Distributed Computing (Washington) 1993.

Michael Fry has a MA from Cambridge University and a MSc in Computing from Imperial College, London. He worked for eight years in industry in both the UK and Australia as an analyst and project manager, with in-depth experience in the analysis, design and programming of real-time monitoring and control systems. In academia his fields of teaching have included distributed systems, computer networks, operating systems, logic design and data communications. He has been a leader in the development and promotion of cooperative education programs with industry. He has active research interests, with ongoing or completed projects in the fields of: local area networks, OSI, network architecture and performance, and multi-media networks. He is the leader of the UTS research unit that is part of the federally funded Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed Systems Technology.

Sample Publications:

• Fry, M., 'Practical Trade-offs for Open Interconnection', Proceedings of the American Computer Science Conference, Kansas, Mo., March 1992, pp 1-15.

• Fry, M., and Shore, D., 'ISDN: Strategic Challenges', Professional Computing, February 1991.

• Fry, M., 'Some Performance Issues for Open Systems', Australian Open Distributed Processing Workshop, Sydney University, January 1990.

• Fry, M., 'The Efficiency of OSI Protocol Stacks: A Computer Systems Perspective', Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computers and Communication, November 1990, pp 553-557.

• Fry, M., 'The Transport Layer for a Microcomputer Network', Australian Computer Journal, 19, 2, May 1987.