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Professor's Work Focuses on Revving p Our Highest-Speed Networks
Malathi Veeraraghavan, a University of Virginia professor of electrical and computer engineering, is creating applications and protocols to ensure that communication to and from the latest supercomputers and large-scale observatories is as efficient as po
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The research of University of Virginia professor Malathi Veeraraghavan could help the latest supercomputers and large-scale observatories such as the Large Hadron Collider reach their full potential.
Veeraraghavan is working to make the state-of-the-art networks that connect them to scientists and researchers around the world as efficient as possible. She is developing applications and protocols to make the networks just as robust, enabling them to move enormous quantities of data precisely, reliably, and at extremely high speeds.
Working with the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research consortium, Veeraraghavan's High-Speed Networks research group has developed a reliable multicast transport protocol for use over software-defined networks that sidesteps the limitations of the traditional multicast Internet protocol and better accommodates the continuous flow of data.
Her group is working with the Southwest Research Institute and the University of Texas at Dallas to use high-performance cloud-based computing to improve industrial robots.
Veeraraghavan also is working with Keio University in Japan to create more flexible fiber-optic networks. "Imagine a highway in which the lanes change size with the nature of the traffic," she says. "When motor scooters are on the road, you could narrow its lane. When there are wide loads, you can make the lanes bigger. The net effect is that you make better use of the capacity you have."
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