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 10 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 a M.A. and B.A. in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge - Pembroke College(United Kingdom).

4CP: competitive and considerate congestion control protocol, S. Liu (UIUC), Milan Vojnovic (Microsoft), D.Gunawardena (Microsoft)
15th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 07), Chicago, USA, June 2007. To Appear

Is High-Quality VoD Feasible using P2P Swarming?, P. Rodriguez (Microsoft), S. Guha (Cornell), S. Annapureddy (Stanford), C. Gkantsidis (Microsoft), D.Gunawardena (Microsoft)
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 07), Banff, Canada, May 2007. To Appear

Exploring VoD in P2P Swarming Systems, P. Rodriguez (Microsoft), S. Guha (Cornell), S. Annapureddy (Stanford), C. Gkantsidis (Microsoft), D.Gunawardena (Microsoft)
IEEE 26th Annual Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 07) Mini-symposium, Anchorage, USA, May 2007. To Appear

Efficient Quarantining of Scanning Worms: Optimal Detection and Coordination, A.Ganesh (Microsoft), D.Gunawardena (Microsoft), P.Key (Microsoft), L.Massoulie(Microsoft), J.Scott (Berkley)
IEEE 25th Annual Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 06), Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.

Countering Automated Exploits with System Security CAPTCHAS, D.Gunawardena (Microsoft), J.Scott (Berkley), A.Zugenmaier (NTTDoCoMo), A.Donnelly (Microsoft)
13th International Cambridge Security Protocols Workshop (ICSPW 05), Cambridge UK, July 2005.

Network characteristics: modelling, measurements and admission control, D.Gunawardena (Microsoft), P.Key (Microsoft), L.Massoulie(Microsoft)
11th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 03), Monterey, June 2003.

ILMI Based Auto-configuration of PVC and SVC services, D.Gunawardena (Westell), D.Allan (Nortel), P.Silverman (3Com) et al
ATM Forum Contribution (atm98-0540 @ www.atmforum.com), Portland OR, July 1998.

Automated Subscriber Service Provisioning utilising ILMI over ADSL, D.Gunawardena (Westell), B.Joshi (Westell)
ADSL Forum Contribution (adslforum98.0068@ www.adsl.com), Montreal, June 1998.

PPP over ATM Interoperability Testing Experiences, D.Gunawardena (Virata), R.Tio (Cisco),
ADSL Forum Contribution (adslforum97.239.0@ www.adsl.com), November 1997.

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 (filed January 2003)