Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
School of Computing and Engineering
University of Missouri-Kansas City
 
CORY BEARD

Associate Professor

Computer Networking
Electrical and Computer Engineering
 
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Research Interests

Disaster communication networks, integrated communication networks, wireless networking, differentiated quality of service provisioning, network traffic engineering, queueing theory, and intelligent agents.

Current Research Activities

         MAC-layer quality of service and emergency traffic prioritization in wireless networks using queueing theory models and game theory.
         Quality of service provisioning in EV-DO Revision A and Revision B.
         Scheduling in 3G and 4G wireless cellular systems.
         Preemptive and queueing policies for providing preference to emergency traffic in wireless cellular networks.
         Quality of service in IEEE 802.11 and 802.16 networks.
         Active queue management to support multi-class dropping preferences for emergency applications.
         Overlay networks for emergency applications.
         Deflection-based packet rerouting in congested networks.

Research Funding

Principal Investigator, “Advanced Network Simulation Tools,” $61,000, Sprint Corporation, May 2007 to December 2007.

Principal Investigator, "CAREER: Priority Users and Applications on the Internet," National Science Foundation CAREER Award, $375,000, March 2002 to February 2007.

Co-Investigator, "Constraint-Based Routing for Traffic Engineering in MPLS/GMPLS: Year II," $100,225, Sprint Corporation, November 2001 to October 2002.

Principal Investigator, "Prioritized Preemption In Stressed Networks", University of Missouri Research Board, $24,582, January 2000 to June 2001.

Principal Investigator, "Architectures for Infinite Capacity Networks," $20,000, January 2001 to December 2002.

Co-Investigator, "Constraint-Based Routing for Traffic Engineering in MPLS/MPLambdaS," $69,000, Sprint Corporation, October 2000 to September 2001.

 

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