Dan Marconett

Research Interests

Current research interests include network management for Heterogeneous and Wireless Mesh/Ad-Hoc Networks. Other interests include; general computer networking, intelligent systems, distributed computing, and sensor networks. As I will be receiving my M.S. in March 2008, I am currently seeking full time employment, in software or network engineering, to begin in Spring 2008.

Education

in progress: Ph.D., Computer Science - University of California, Davis

Emphasis: Networks – GPA 3.72 – Advisor: Professor S. J. Ben Yoo

completed: B.S., Computer Science - California State University, Sacramento

Minor: Mathematics – GPA 3.60 – Graduated Cum Laude, May 2006

Graduate Coursework

Undergraduate Coursework

Technical Skills

Programming Languages: Java, C/C++, MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow, Perl, Visual Basic, PHP, mySQL, Assembly Language on Intel x86 architecture, C Programming in Unix/Linux Environment, C Network Programming

Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows 2000/XP environments

Design: UML, Object Oriented and Structural approaches to Software Engineering, Relational Database Design, ERD modeling, Object Oriented GUI Design and Programming

Other: J2EE Development Environment, Network Simulation using OPNET Modeler

Research Experience

Intel Corporation - IT Research - Folsom, CA Mentor: John Vicente - Senior PE Graduate Student Intern (June 2007 – Jan. 2008) Investigating the design of future autonomous network management architectures to be incorporated in a future heterogeneous mesh management framework. Work entails creation/modification of network simulation environments using a variety of software packages, including JAVA and Matlab/Simulink. Work entails the utilization of clustering techniques as well as the incorporation of advanced machine learning concepts to enhance the self-configuration and self-manageability of the proposed management framework. Additional work involves the design and simulation of a distributed virtual machine network architecture which improves upon the current centralized implementation of PlanetLab.

University of California, Davis Advisor: Professor S. J. Ben Yoo Graduate Student Researcher (July 2006 – Present) Conducting research in the area of intelligent wireless mesh network management. Specifically, an investigation of incorporating autonomic machine learning techniques in a future network management framework, using network simulation and testbed implementation. Additional work will consider the effects of this technology in a heterogeneous network environment.

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center - Edwards, CA Student Researcher (May 2006 – July 2006) Conducted a two month research project to investigate the feasibility of a Sensor Observation Service based on the framework set forth by the Open Geospatial Consortium. Refined a set of standard procedures by which sensor network data producer and consumer systems may interact with a prototype sensor observation service server instance. Also defined were xml schema standards for data and metadata broadcast. The goal of the sensor observation service is to standardize and automate the broadcast and retrieval of observational data generated by mobile and fixed network-distributed sensor networks.

CSUS I-Scan Group with NASA Advanced Test Technologies Group and Creare Inc. Senior Project Manager (Sept. 2005 – May 2006) The CSUS I-Scan Group was a senior project group tasked with the research and creation of a distributed network computing video-on-demand system for NASA Advanced Test Technologies. As project lead, I directed development of this distributed imaging sensor network. The three-tiered scalable system is comprised of multiple digital image sensors at multiple geographical locations locally cached, processed, and available for access over the web in near real-time, via a Google Earth user interface. The system was implemented in Java 1.5 and Creare’s Ring Buffered Network Bus (RBNB) was leveraged as the middleware data caching mechanism. The system also takes into account narrow bandwidth constraints, since implementation will take place onboard a NASA UAV for environmental mapping in the harsh environment of Antarctica.

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center - Edwards, CA Undergraduate Researcher (June 2005 – Aug. 2005) Conducted mentored research project in the area of sensor networking in support of NASA Earth Science Capabilities Demonstration (ESCD) Project. Specifically, network behavior, in terms of UDP/PPP link performance, was characterized between airborne sensor platforms and ground receiving stations, using communication satellites as intermediate signal relays. This project was in support of the development of the airborne layer of a Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) and had delay-tolerant networking implications.

Teaching Experience

University of California, Davis Teaching Assistant (Sept. 2006 – Dec. 2006) Assisted Professor Daniel Gusfield in the instruction of ECS 122A: Algorithms Design and Analysis. This course serves as a comprehensive introduction to the design and analysis of algorithms for undergraduate computer science students. Course material includes: Worst Case Complexity, Recurrence Relations, Divide and Conquer Algorithms, Decision Tree Algorithms, Dynamic Programming, NP-Completeness, Shortest Path Graph Algorithms, and Approximation Algorithms. Conducted weekly discussion sections, regular lectures on the analysis of various algorithms, and graded weekly homework assignments as well as midterms/final.

Conference Papers

D. Marconett, M. Lee, X. Ye, and S. J. B. Yoo, Intelligent Network-Layer Management for Wireless Mesh Networks: Dynamic Tuning of a Reactive Routing Protocol, Opnetwork 2007, Washington D.C. August 2007.

M. Lee, D. Marconett, X. Ye, and S. J. B. Yoo, Autonomic Reconfiguration Management for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks using Reinforcement Learning, Opnetwork 2007, Washington D.C. August 2007.

M. Lee, D. Marconett, X. Ye, and S. J. B. Yoo, Cognitive Network Management with Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Mesh Networks, to be presented at the International Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2007), San Jose, CA. November 2007.

Technical Papers

D. Marconett. A Prototype Network-Distributed Sensor Web Observation Service. NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Paper: SOS-Study-DMarconett-17July06. July, 2006.

D. Marconett, S. Johnson, S. Bemus, R. Jarvinen, D. Potter, L. Freudinger. Distributed Image-Sensor Web Management For Bandwidth Constrained Environments. I-Scan Project Paper No. lcf8May. May, 2006.

D. Marconett, L. Freudinger. Baseline Performance of an Over-the-Horizon Sensor Web for Suborbital Earth Science Applications. NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Paper: Marconett-ESCD-OTH-TM-0503. August, 2005.

Professional Memberships

IEEE Communications Society – Student Member

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) – Student Member

Academic Accomplishments

UC Davis Computer Science Department Fellowship

National Scholars Honor Society

Dean’s Honor List: College of Engineering and Computer Science (CSUS)

Dean’s Outstanding Scholar Award: College of Engineering and Computer Science (CSUS)

Golden Key National Honor Society

National Dean’s List Honor Society

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program (USRP) Summer 2005

Please visit http://www.danmarconett.com for technical papers, presentation slides and project information.