March 2, 2004

Peer-to-Peer Paradigm Project Garners NSF Career Award for Harfoush

Dr. Harfoush

Dr. Khaled Harfoush, assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective March 15, 2004. The award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to young university faculty in science and engineering.

As part of the award, NSF will provide $408,894 in funding over the next five years to support Harfoush’s research project entitled “New Directions in Managing Structured Peer-to-Peer Systems.” Structured peer-to-peer (P2P) systems allow potentially millions of computer users to join a virtual system where they can exchange resources and run distributed applications. The key objective of this project is to address the challenges and opportunities that accompany the deployment of these systems, which are currently deployed on a limited scale and mostly for file-sharing applications.

The primary focus will be on the design and implementation of robust network protocols that support new schemes for organizing structured P2P system resources, new strategies for locating and servicing these resources, and varied network measurement techniques for monitoring and optimizing the users’ experience. The final deliverable will be a publicly available prototype that will give researchers and students hands-on experience with new ideas in P2P technology.

Harfoush received his bachelor’s (1992) and master’s (1995) from Alexandria University in Alexandria, Egypt. He received his doctorate in computer science from Boston University in 2002 and joined the faculty at NC State in fall 2002. His research interests include computer networking, Internet measurements, peer-to-peer systems and routing protocols.

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(Photo: Dr. Christopher Healey)

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