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Ken Christensen

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Program, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida

Phone: (813) 974-4761

Fax: (813) 974-5456

4202 East Fowler Avenue, ENB 118
Tampa, Florida 33620

christen@csee.usf.edu

http://www.csee.usf.edu/~christen

Education:

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1991

Research Interests:

Green Networks

High-speed networks, network protocols, power management, and performance evaluation methods and tools. Special focus on energy use of networks and network-connected hosts - both direct and induced energy use.

Publications List:

B. Nordman and K. Christensen, "Greener PCs for the Enterprise," IEEE IT Professional, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 28-37, July/August 2009.

C. Gunaratne, K. Christensen, S. Suen, and B. Nordman, "Reducing the Energy Consumption of Ethernet with an Adaptive Link Rate (ALR)," IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 448-461, April 2008.

M. Allman , K. Christensen, B. Nordman, and V. Paxson, "Enabling an Energy-Efficient Future Internet Through Selectively Connected End Systems," Sixth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-VI), November 2007.

C. Gunaratne, K. Christensen, and B. Nordman, "Managing Energy Consumption Costs in Desktop PCs and LAN Switches with Proxying, Split TCP Connections, and Scaling of Link Speed," International Journal of Network Management, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 297-310, September/October 2005.

K. Christensen, P. Gunaratne, B. Nordman, and A. George, "The Next Frontier for Communications Networks: Power Management," Computer Communications, Vol. 27, No. 18, pp. 1758-1770, December 2004.