Curriculum
Vita
Gregory B. Brewster
Education
Academic Appointments
Administrative Appointments
Professional Employment
Publications in Journals
1. Uludag, S., Lui, K.-S., Nahrstedt, K., Brewster, G., “Analysis of Topology Aggregation Techniques for QoS Routing,” ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 39, Issue 3, September, 2007.
2. Lopamudra Roychoudhuri, Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Gregory B. Brewster: “On the impact of loss and delay variation on Internet packet audio transmission,” Journal of Computer Communications, Vol. 29, No. 10: pp. 1578-1589 (June, 2006)
Publications in Archival Conference Proceedings
3. Roychoudhuri,
L., Al-Shaer, E., Hamed, H. and Brewster, G. B., “Audio Transmission over the Internet: Experiments
and Observations,” Proceedings IEEE 2003 International Conference on
Communications (ICC 2003),
4. Roychoudhuri, L., Al-Shaer, E., Hamed, H. and Brewster, G. B., “On Studying the Impact of Internet Delays on Audio Transmission,” IP Operations and Management, October, 2002.
5. Elarde, J. V. and Brewster, G. B., "WEBARM: Mobile Code Based Agent for Web Application Response Measurement – Software Implementations and Analysis,'' Management of Multimedia on the Internet: Proceedings of the 4th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS 2001), Chicago, IL, USA, October/November 2001, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 2216, pp. 313-328.
6. Elarde,
J. V. and Brewster, G. B., "Performance Analysis of Application Response
Measurement (ARM) Version 2.0 Measurement Agent Software Implementations,'' Proceedings of the 19th IEEE
International Performance, Computing, And Communications Conference
(IPCCC2000),
7. Borella, M.S., Swider, D., Uludag, S. and Brewster, G.B.,
"Internet Packet Loss: Measurements and Implications for End-to-End QOS,''
Proceedings of the 1998 ICPP Workshops,
International Conference on Parallel
Processing (ICPP-98), Minneapolis, MN,
8. Borella, M. S., Brewster, G. B., "Measurement and Analysis of Long-Range Dependent Behavior of Internet Packet Delay,'' Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM '98, San Francisco, CA, March 29 - April 2, 1998, pp. 497-504.
9. Brewster, G. B., Borella,
M. S., "Multicast Routing Algorithms for the WDM Shufflenet Local
Optical Network,'' Proceedings IEEE
International Conference on Communications - ICC '97,
10. Borella, M. S., Uludag, S., Brewster, G. B., Sidhu, I., "Self-Similarity of Internet Packet Delay,'' Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC '97, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 8-12, 1997, pp. 513-517.
11. Brewster, G. B., Vernon, M. K., "The Fairness of DQDB Networks With Slot Reuse,'' Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM '95, Boston, MA, April 4-6, 1995, pp. 1154-1163.
Publications in Other Refereed Conferences
12. Uludag,
S., Perkovic, L. and Brewster, G.B., “Stochastic Shortest Path Algorithms for
Delay Sensitive Applications in the Internet,” Institute for Operations
Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Triennial Conference,
13. Uludag, S., Perkovic, L. and Brewster, G.B., “Stochastic Quality-of-Service Routing for Delay Sensitive Application,” Workshop on Research in Progress, IEEE INFOCOM 2005, Miami, FL, March 13-17, 2005.
14. Al-Shaer,
E. and Brewster, G. B., "Graduate Level Curriculum and Laboratory Courses
for Computer Networking", Proceedings
ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Computer Networking: Curriculum Designs and Educational
Challenges,
15. Roychoudhuri, L., Al-Shaer, E., Hamed, H. and
Brewster, G. B., ``On studying the impact of Internet delays on audio
transmission,'' IEEE Workshop on IP
Operations and Management (IPOM 2002),
16. Roychoudhuri, L., Al-Shaer, E. and Brewster,
G. B., ``Experiments on Audio Transmission over the
Internet,'' CITRS ’01 – DePaul CTI Research Symposium,
17. Brewster, G. B., ``The Use of ATM for Instructional and Research Projects in a
Laboratory Environment,'' 10th Midwest Computer Conference,
18. Brewster, G. B., ``RMD - A Software Package for Analyzing 5ESS Software Performance from Measurements,'' Proceedings of the AT&T Symposium on Performance Analysis, Holmdel, NJ, November 15, 1988, pp. 51-58.
Publications in Other Refereed Publications
19. Brewster, Gregory B., “A Distance Learning Overview,”
American Investor Magazine, November
2007.
Technical Reports
20. Uludag, S., Lui, K.-S.,
Nahrstedt, K., and Brewster, G., ``Comparative Analysis of Topology Aggregation
Techniques and Approaches for the Scalability of QoS Routing,'' CTI
Technical Report 05-010, May, 2005.
21. Borella, M.S., Swider, D.,
Uludag, S. and Brewster, G.B., ``Analysis of end-to-end Internet Packet Loss:
Dependence and Asymmetry,'' Technical Report AT031798, 3Com Advanced
Technologies, March,
1998.
22. Brewster, G.B., Vernon, M.K., ``DQDB Access Speedup
Due to Inter-Station Distance,'' Technical Report #93-001, Department of
Computer Science and Information Systems, DePaul University, March, 1993.
Grants Awarded
$1,000 internal award to support a survey of CTI writing
coursework, development of a best-practices document for assigning writing
assignments in IT courses and recommended revisions to ENG 204 for CTI
students, June, 2006.
$150,000 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
over 2 years to support the connection of
$491,400 award from the U.S. Department of Education over 3
years to provide support for 6 Ph.D. students.
Joint grant with Steven Lytinen, Alan Jeffrey, Noriko
Tomuro, and Eric Schwabe. Awarded April 2001.
$12,000 QIC Competitive Grant awarded in February 1997. Joint grant with Lorilee Sadler.
$15,000 industry grant from U.S. Robotics Corporation awarded in May 1996. Renewed for an additional $15,000 in January 1997. Joint grant with Michael Borella.
Professional Activities
· Sept, 2006 – March, 2007: Reviewed around 300 telecommunications patents and provided expert testimony on patent potential of Internet telephony services for Foley and Lardner, Chicago.
· Various dates, 2003: Provided expert testimony in several immigration cases for Sidley Austin Brown and Wood that required opinions on how well applicants had met legal standards of specialized knowledge in telecommunications and other IT skill sets.
· March, 1999: Retained as expert witness by law firm of Hale, Lane, Peek, Dennison, Howard and Anderson to submit report and testify in case of Las Vegas Digital Communications, Inc. v. 3Com Corporation.
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June, 1997: Hired by Communications Technology
Group, Inc. to consult on proposed high-bandwidth ATM communications network
design to be presented to the City of
· Daily Herald, 6/25/2008 – “Virgin Mobile tweaks big telecoms with $79 unlimited call plan.”
· Daily Herald story on cell phone failures during NIU shootings – February, 2008.
· Daily Herald story on new AT&T IPTV service – January, 2008.
· CBS Channel 2 Evening News story on Caller ID Spoofing – October, 2006
· Daily Herald, January 3, 2006 – “Live, from the living room … Podcasts perfect for those who want to be heard”
· Business One News, WPWR-TV, Oct. 25, 2004 – News story on DePaul programs and outsourcing of IT jobs.
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