Prof. Liam Murphy

My contact number is +353 1 716 2914 or you can email me at liam DOT murphy AT ucd DOT ie

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin, Ireland. I got my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. A few more details are in my brief bio.

You can find information here on my Teaching, Editorial Boards & Programme Committees, Research (including refereed publications), and External Examining of Research Postgraduate students.

Teaching:

§ COMP40660: Advances in Wireless Networking (Blackboard only)

§ COMP20080: Computer Science for Engineers II (Blackboard only)

§ ASE: Performance of Distributed Systems (COMP40550/COMP47070), December 2008

§ COMP40010: Performance of Computer Systems (Blackboard only)

Editorial Boards & Programme Committees:

§ I am an Associate Technical Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, which is one of the most cited journals in Telecommunications and Electrical/Electronic Engineering and provides peer-reviewed information on all aspects of communications.

§ I am an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, which is one of the most cited journals in Telecommunications and features peer-reviewed papers on areas ranging from satellite and Internet broadcasting to traditional RF topics.

§ I am an Editor for the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, an online journal published by the IEEE Communications Society for tutorials and surveys covering all aspects of the communications field.

§ I am the Co-Editor (with Dr. Nicola Cranley) of a book, Wireless Multimedia: Quality of Service and Solutions, published by Idea Group Inc. in July 2008. The Call for Chapter Proposals was widely distributed e.g. Tccc, manet, CFP list.

In addition, I am (or I have recently been) a reviewer for these journals.

Current Conference responsibilities:

· I am a Member of the Technical Programme Committee for IEEE Globecom 2009 Selected Areas in Communications Symposium and Wireless Networking Symposium, to be held 30 November – 4 December 2009 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

· I was a Member of the Technical Programme Committee for the 4th International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2009), held 20-25 September 2009 in Porto, Portugal.

· I was a Member of the Technical Programme Committee for the International Symposium on Multimedia over Wireless (ISMW 2009), held 21-24 June 2009 in Leipzig, Germany.

· I was a Member of the Technical Programme Committee for the 7th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2009), held 27-29 May 2009 in University of Twente, The Netherlands.

· I was a Member of the Technical Programme Committee for the 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2009), held 11-13 January 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Since 2006 I have been involved in the TPC of these conferences.

Research:

I help to run the Performance Engineering Laboratory research group.

· To date, I have supervised/co-supervised 8 Ph.D. and 15 Research Masters students to graduation.

· At present, I am supervising/co-supervising 5 Ph.D. and 1 Research Masters students.

I am a director of crovan, a UCD/DCU campus company.

I am an IBM Center for Advanced Studies (Dublin) Faculty Fellow.

A list of my refereed publications is here.

External Examining of Research Postgraduate students:

§ Ph.D., July 2008, Laboratoire de Reseaux et Systemes Multimedia, Universite d’Evry Val-d’Essonne, France

§ Ph.D., June 2007, Centre For Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim

§ Ph.D., May 2006, School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics, Brunel University, U.K.

§ Ph.D., November 2005, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Queens University Belfast.

§ M.Eng., November 2007, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Ireland.

§ M.Phil., October 2005, School of Electronic and Communications Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology (Kevin St.), Ireland.

§ M.Eng., September 2005, Centre for Adaptive Wireless Systems, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland.