Zakaria Al-Qudah

I am ...

a PhD candidate of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) under the supervision of Prof. Michael Rabinovich. I've earned my MSc. degree also from EECS department at CWRU under the supervision of Prof. Vincenzo Liberatore and my BSc. degree from Yarmouk University, Jordan.

Research Interest:

I am interested generally in computer networking research. Specific research areas include distributed systems, overlay networking, and network quality of service (QoS). Currently, I am developing (along with my colleagues at Prof. Rabinovich's research group) a high performance hosting platform for large web applications.

Recent Projects:

• Agile hosting platforms (on progress): proposes techniques to enable hosting platforms to switch between different application instances quickly in response a sudden demand for a certain application.
• Stochastic Fairness Queuing (SFQ): This project shows the statistical insignificance of any overhead imposed by a large number of queues in SFQ.

Graduate Courses:

I took different graduate level courses at CWRU including Internet Applications (EECS 600), Web Computing or Computer Networks II (EECS 425), Computer Architecture (EECS 419), VLSI design (EECS 485), Computer Security (EECS 444), and two statistics courses.