Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Faculty

Somani, Arun K. -- Distinguished Professor; Jerry R. Junkins Endowed Chair; Department Chair
2211 Coover Hall
Ames IA 50011		 Phone: 515-294-0442

 arun@iastate.edu
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Education

PhD, Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1985)
MS, Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1983)
MTech, Computer Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (1979)
BE, Electrical Engineering, BITS, Pilani (1973)

  • IEEE Fellow
  • ACM Distinguished Engineer

Research Interests

Optical fiber networking, computer system architecture, dependable computing, reconfigurable system design

Core Research Area: Computing and networking systems

Strategic Research Areas: Cyber infrastructure; energy infrastructure

Selected Publications

Avirneni, N. D. P., V. Subramanian, and A. K. Somani. “Low Overhead Soft Error Mitigation Techniques for High-Performance and Aggressive Systems.” In Proc. of Dependable Computing and Communications Symposium at the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal, June 29-July 2, 2009.

Balasubramanian, S. and A. K. Somani. “Dynamic Survivable Network Design for Path Level Traffic Grooming in WDM Optical Networks.” Journal of Networking 7, no. 8, (2008): 759–782.

Gupta, R., V. Sekhri, and A. K. Somani. “CompuP2P: An Architecture for Internet Computing Using Peer-to-Peer Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 17, no. 11, (2006): 1306–1320.

A. K. Somani, M. Mina, and L. Li. “On Trading Wavelengths with Fibers: A Cost-Performance Based Study.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 12, no. 5, (2004): 944–951.

Ramasubramanian, S. and A. K. Somani. “Analysis of Optical Networks with Heterogeneous Grooming Architectures.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 12, no. 5, (2004): 931–943.
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