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Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski SM IEEE, ACM, SMSI, RSNZ

Position

Professor

Qualifications

Ph.D. (Distinction) in Computer Engineering and
M.E. in Electronic Engineering, from Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

Room

Maths/Computer Science 301

Contact Details

Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7772
Fax: +64 3 364 2569
krys.pawlikowski at canterbury.ac.nz

Postal Address:

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

College of Engineering
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand

Undergraduate Courses

COSC 227: Probabilistic Methods and Information Theory

COSC 231: Introduction to Data Communications and Networks

COSC 327: Performance Modelling and Simulation

Graduate Courses

COSC 408: Modern Telecommunication Networks (Selected Topics)

COSC 410: Quantitative Discrete-Event Simulation

School Administration

CSSE PG Studies Committee

CSSE Research Committee

Research Interests

Prof. Pawlikowski's current research interests are in the area of distributed quantitative simulation, networked processing (including P2P systems), telecommunication networks (including the Internet, as well as wireless and all-optical networks: their protocols, architectures, management and security issues) and teletraffic modelling.

Areas of possible topics of research projects at PhD, Master and Honours level include: distributed discrete-event simulation; simulation of rare events; grid processing; management of telecommunication networks, including the Internet and networks in wireless and all-optical technologies, their performance and security; propagation of viruses; and teletraffic modelling.

See list of currently available research projects.

Some research projects, past and present.

Background

Professor K. Pawlikowski graduated from Technical University of Gdansk, Poland, with a Ph.D. (Distinction) in Computer Engineering, and was a member of academic staff there until 1984. He has been an academic member of staff in the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand , since Sept. 1984. Temporary appointments.
Prof. Pawlikowski gave over 100 invited lectures and seminar talks at over 80 universities and research institutions in Asia, Australia , Europe and North America, as well as keynote speeches and invited talks at international conferences around the world. He is the author or co-author of more than 150 research publications, including 4 books on computer networks; chairman of TPC of: ICOIN'2003 (Int. Conf. on Information Networking, Jeju Island, Korea, Feb. 2003), ICOIN'2004 (Int. Conf. on Information Networking, Buzen, Korea, Feb. 2004) , AICCSA’2007 (the 5th ACS/IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Systems and Applications, Amman, Jordan, May 2007) ) and ATNAC’2007 (Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, Dec. 2007);  member of numerous technical program committees of international conferences; technical editor of IEEE Network Magazine (1990-2000) and Int. J. of Communication Networks (Wiley; 2005-2006).
    At the University of Canterbury, he has been a co-founder of the Research Centre on Network Protocols, Distributed Processing and Simulation. The centre consists of two interdepartmental research groups: Network Research Group and Simulation Research Group, with members from Computer Science, Management, and Electrical & Computer Engineering. He is the leader of an on-goingresearch project Akaroa2 on distributed stochastic simulation
<an international commendation (in Science category) in the Computerworld Smithsonian Award, USA , in 1993> and a project on PlanetLab NZ on national experimental networking infrastructure within global experimental networking infrastructure/testbed PlanetLab.

Membership of professional organizations

Senior Member of IEEE
Member of ACM and SCS (Society for Modeling and Simulation Int.)
Member of ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Eng.)
Member of the Royal Society of New Zealand

List of All Publications

Copies of Selected Publications

K. Pawlikowski. Steady state simulation of queuing processes: A survey of basic problems and solutions (PDF, 1.58MB). ACM Computing Surveys, June 1990, 22(2): 123-170.

K. Pawlikowski, H.-D.J. Jeong and J.-S. Ruth Lee. On Credibility of Simulation Studies Of Telecommunication Networks (PDF, 129KB) (extended version). IEEE Communications Magazine, January 2002, 132-139. Additionally you can read Letters to the Editor of IEEE Comms. Magazine regarding this paper (PDF, 78.3KB); published in March 2003.

Last updated: January 26, 2009