Dinan Gunawardena is a Research Software Development Engineer in the Cambridge Systems and Networking research group at Microsoft Research Europe (since July 2001) based in Cambridge, U.K. Dinan has over 12 years experience working in the computer telecommunication and networking industry. His experience covers early work in ATM LAN technology through last mile wired and wireless access. Prior to joining Microsoft Research, Dinan worked for Adaptive Broadband Ltd as their System Architect in Radio Software and Networking. In addition to this role, he project managed the development of their point to point backhaul radio modem. Prior to taking on this task, Dinan held senior and lead technical positions within Adaptive's software development organisation. Dinan has also worked for Fujitsu DSL Solutions, Westell Inc. and Virata Corporation (in various senior software development / architecture positions). Dinan has published and presented several technical papers at various industry conferences and has been involved with several patent applications.
Dinan has also shipped research technology in Windows Vista (QoS extensions to LLTD - qWave). Dinan’s current technical interests are diverse ranging from Multi-media P2P technology (RedCarpet/ReWindTV), Core TCPIP congestion control (ECN/QoS/BaTS/4CP), Systems Security (System protection using HIPs) and recently Ad-hoc wireless research (Horizon) and Collaborative Filtering (TagBooster). Dinan has also spent time working on assignment in the Windows Networking division in Redmond, USA.
Dinan has a M.A. and B.A. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge - Pembroke College (United Kingdom).
- Dinan Gunawardena, Thomas Karagiannis, Alexandre Proutiere, and Milan Vojnovic, Characterizing Podcast Services: Publishing, Usage, and Dissemination, in Proc. of ACM IMC 2009, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2009
- Bozidar Radunovic, Dinan Gunawardena, Peter Key, Alexandre Proutiere, Nikhil Singh, Horia Vlad Balan, and Gerald Dejean, Rethinking Indoor Wireless: Low Power, Low Frequency, Full-duplex, no. MSR-TR-2009-148, 24 July 2009
- Dinan Gunawardena, Thomas Karagiannis, Alexandre Proutiere, and Milan Vojnovic, Characterizing Podcast Services: Publishing, Usage, and Dissemination, no. MSR-TR-2009-58, May 2009
- Bozidar Radunovic, Dinan Gunawardena, Alexandre Proutiere, Nikhil Singh, Vlad Balan, and Peter Key, Efficiency and Fairness in Distributed Wireless Networks Through Self-interference Cancellation and Scheduling, no. MSR-TR-2009-27, 12 March 2009
- Milan Vojnovic, James Cruise, Dinan Gunawardena, and Peter Marbach, Ranking and Suggesting Popular Items, in IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 2009
- Bozidar Radunovic, Christos Gkantsidis, Dinan Gunawardena, and Peter Key, Horizon: Balancing TCP over Multiple Paths in Wireless Mesh Network, in MobiCom'08, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 14 September 2008
- Fabian Suchanek, Milan Vojnovic, and Dinan Gunawardena, Social Tagging: Meaning and Suggestions, in Proc. of ACM CIKM 2008, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2008
- Shao Liu, Milan Vojnovic, and Dinan Gunawardena, Competitive and Considerate Congestion Control for Bulk Data Transfers, in IEEE IWQoS 2007, June 2007
- Siddhartha Annapureddy, Saikat Guha, Christos Gkantsidis, Dinan Gunawardena, and Pablo Rodriguez, Exploring VoD in P2P Swarming Systems, IEEE Communications Society, May 2007
- A. Ganesh, D. Gunawardena, P. Key, L. Massoulié, and J. Scott, Efficient quarantining of scanning worms: optimal detection and coordination, in Infocom 2006, IEEE, April 2006
- Shao Liu, Milan Vojnović, and Dinan Gunawardena, Competitive and Considerate Congestion Control for Bulk-Data Transfers, no. MSR-TR-2006-24, February 2006
- D. Gunawardena, A. Donnelly, J. Scott .Berkley., and A. Zugenmaier .NTT DoCoMo., Countering Automated Exploits with System Security CAPTCHAS, in 13th International Cambridge Security Protocols Workshop (ICSPW 05), , July 2005
- Dinan Gunarwardena, Peter Key, and Laurent Massoulié, Network characteristics: modelling, measurements and admission control, in IWQoS, June 2003
- D.Gunawardena (Westell), D.Allan (Nortel), P.Silverman (3Com) et al, ILMI Based Auto-configuration of PVC and SVC services, ATM Forum Contribution (atm98-0540 @ www.atmforum.com), Portland OR, Jul. 1998
- D.Gunawardena (Westell), B.Joshi (Westell), Automated Subscriber Service Provisioning utilising ILMI over ADSL, ADSL Forum Contribution(adslforum98.0068@ www.adsl.com), Montreal, Jun. 1998
- D.Gunawardena (Virata), R.Tio (Cisco), PPP over ATM Interoperability Testing Experiences, ADSL Forum Contribution (adslforum97.239.0@ www.adsl.com), Nov. 1997
Patents
Associating Network Devices with Users - Microsoft Corporation (filed February 2008)
Multipath Forwarding Algorithms Using Network Coding - Microsoft Corporation (filed June 2007)
System for Ranking and Suggesting Candidate Objects - Microsoft Corporation (filed March 2007)
Competitive and Considerate Congestion Control - Microsoft Corporation (filed June 2006)
Control of Background Transfers - Microsoft Corporation (filed July 2005)
Round Trip Time Estimation - Microsoft Corporation (filed July 2005)
System Security Using Human Authorization - Microsoft Corporation (filed June 2005)
Network Amplification Attack Mitigation - Microsoft Corporation (filed April 2004)
Sustainable Capacity Estimation - Microsoft Corporation (filed October 2003)
Reactive Bandwidth Control for Streaming Data - Microsoft Corporation (granted 2008)
Research Interests
- Multi-media
- Social Networking
- System Security
- TCP Congestion Control
- Wireless Technologies
- Embedded Systems
- Mobile Devices
- Networking
