I am an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing in November 2001 (M.S. in Computer Science, 1997), working under the direction of Dr. Karsten Schwan. Additional details as well as my official CV can be found >>> here. <<<
What's new?
Sofia is new - you pretty thing!
Look at the AquaLab site for media coverage of our work.
Slashdot on our new SwarmScreen plugin for BitTorrent -- Privacy In BitTorrent By Hiding In the Crowd
I've been made Senior member of the ACM.
I was invited to be part of a panel on Tension between P2P communication and Service Providers as part of ICNP 2008.
Reusing P2P for early detection of network problems - A new plugin for Vuze/Azureus BitTorrent clients that allows peers to cooperatively detect network problems and unfriendly ISPs. You can download it from >>>here<<<. Join the 36,167 users who have already done so!
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Research
My research interests span several areas of experimental systems, in particular distributed systems, networking and operating systems. My current work focuses on design, deployment and evaluation of large-scale distributed systems in both wide-area and mobile networks. This work has been funded through the generous support of NSF, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Ford, Motorola, Metis Enterprise Technology and the Murphy Society.
Recent Publications
- Where
the Sidewalk Ends: Extending the Internet AS Graph Using
Traceroutes From P2P Users
K. Chen, D. Choffnes, R. Potharaju, Y. Chen, F. Bustamante, D. Pei and Y. Zhao.
In Proc. of ACM CoNEXT, December 2009. - Distributed
or Centralized Traffic Advisory Systems -- The Application's
Take
J. Otto and F. E. Bustamante.
In Proc. of IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), June 2009. - POPI: A User-level Tool for Inferring Router Packet
Forwarding Priority
G. Lu, Y. Chen, S. Birrer, F. E. Bustamante, and X. Li.
In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Accepted for publication, April 2009. - Down
the Block and Around the Corner: The Impact of Radio
Propagation on Inter-vehicle Wireless
Communication
J. Otto, F. E. Bustamante and R. Berry.
In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2009. - On
the Effectiveness of Measurement Reuse for Performance-Based
Detouring
D. Choffnes and F. E. Bustamante.
In Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, April 2009. - Taming
the Torrent: A practical approach to reducing cross-ISP
traffic in P2P systems
D. Choffnes and F. E. Bustamante.
In Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, August 2008. - Drafting Behind Akamai: Inferring Network Conditions Based
on CDN Redirections
A-J Su, D. Choffnes, A. Kuzmanovic and F. Bustamante.
In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Accepted for publication, February 2008. - Relative
Network Positioning via CDN Redirections
A-J Su, D. Choffnes, F. Bustamante and A. Kuzmanovic.
In Proc. of International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2008. - (Complete list of publications)
I lead the AquaLab
research group; you can look there from more information and
group's publications.
Other projects and groups with which I have been involved include: Active Streams, Proactive Directory Service, ECho, PBIO, DEOS, InfoSphere, Storage Systems Program, and The Virtual Microscope.
Teaching
- MSIT-491
Peer-to-Peer Computing: A short course for the Masters of
Science on Information Technology.
Winter '08 - EECS-443
Advanced Operating Systems: A graduate-level course on
operating systems and software computer systems in general.
Winter '03 | Spring '05 | Winter '07 | Winter '09 - EECS-395/495
Distributed Systems in Challenging Environments: A
seminar tbat reviews cool ideas and ongoing projects that are
pushing distributed systems into new and challenging
domains.
Spring '08 - EECS-395/495
Autonomic Computing Systems: A seminar reviewing new
ideas and developments in a new research area aiming at
delivering computing systems that can manage themselves given
high-level objectives from administrators.
Winter '06 - EECS-345
Distributed Systems: An introduction to distributed
systems.
Winter '04 | Winter '05 | Winter '08 | Winter '10 - EECS-343
Operating Systems: An overview of fundamental operating
systems concepts.
Fall 2002 | Fall '03 | Fall '04 | Fall '05 | Fall '06 | Fall '07 | Fall '08 | >>> Fall '09 <<< - EECS-213
Introduction to Computer Systems: This course provides a
programmer's view of how computer systems execute programs,
store information, and communicate.
Spring '07 | Spring '10 - NSRG Systems Reading Group: A quarterly seminar on systems and networking research topics.
Students
David Choffnes
John Otto
Mario Sanchez
Soyannwo Olusanya, MS (June 2009)
Xian Yi Teng, MS (May 2008)
Stefan Birrer, Ph.D. (Defended Dec. 5, 2007) --
Startup Dosensio
Yi Qiao, MS
(May 2004)
Selected Professional Activities
Program Committees
VANET 09
MASCOTS 09
ICAC 09
SASO 09
IEEE P2P 09
PerCom 09
COMSNETS 09
WWW 09
(A
complete list can be found in my CV)
Other Professional Service
Local Arrangements Chair, IMC 09
Chair/Organizer, HotAC 09
General Chair, HotWeb
08
Local Arrangements Chair, ICAC 08
(A
complete list can be found in my CV)
Affiliations
Personal
- Jeanine and I run long distance (marathons,
half-marathons, 10 and 5K). For a few years, I have been
training with a program that closely follows those described
by Pfitzinger and Douglas in
Advanced marathoning; giving that I also have to get to
work sometimes, I only follow the 55-mile per week one.
Some of my favorite races include: March Madness Half Marathon (you can find hills in Illinois), the Philadelphia Marathon, Park Forest Scenic 10mi and Chicago Distance Classic. - Luca is 4 years old, but has already run a few races!
- Pretty little thing - Sofia is now around!
- Astor Piazzolla - my favorite musician and one of his best-ever compositions, Adios Nonino.
- I played Lock/2nd Row for the Chenque Rugby Club, between 1984 and 1993. Many good friends and family still play for the club or for the veteran rugby team Los Alacranes.
Los Pumas' passion -
a great
video of the toughest guys in the IRB.- I'm originally from Patagonia, Argentina ...
- Academically (genealogy) ...
Contact Information
Fabián E. Bustamante (email fabian)
EECS Department, Northwestern University
Technological Institute, L465 ( Getting there)
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL USA 60208
(847) 491-2745 | (847) 467-4144 (Fax)
Assistant: Donna Heeter (email Donna)
(847) 491-7132