Contact information
Office: CS 216A
Phone: 1 (413) 545 4465
Email: zink AT cs.umass.edu
Career
Michael Zink is currently Research Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Previously he was a researcher at the Multimedia Communications Laboratory at Darmstadt University of Technology. He works in the fields of sense-and-response sensor networks, distribution of high-bandwidth, high-volume data, and the design and analysis of long-distance wireless networks. Further research interests are in wide-area multimedia distribution for wired and wireless environments and network protocols. He is one of the developers of the KOMSSYS streaming platform. He received his Diploma (M.Sc.) from Darmstadt University of Technology in 1997. From 1997 to 1998 he was employed as a guest researcher at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he developed an MPLS testbed. In 2003 he received his Ph.D. degree (Dr.-Ing) from Darmstadt University of Technology; his thesis was on Scalable Internet Video-on-Demand Systems.
Research
- Sensor Networks
- Wireless Long-distance Networks
- Multimedia
Recent Publications
David McLaughlin, David Pepyne, V.Chandrasekar, Brenda Philips, James Kurose, Michael Zink et al., Short-Wavelength Technology and the Potential for Distributed Networks of Small Radar Systems. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. April 2009.
Victoria Manfredi, Jim Kurose, Naceur Malouch, Chun Zhang, Michael Zink, Separation of Sensor Control and Data in Closed-Loop Sensor Networks. To appear in SECON 2009.
Pablo Serrano, Michael Zink, Jim Kurose, Assessing the fidelity of COTS 802.11 sniffers. In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, April 2009.
Yanlei Diao, Boduo Li, Anna Liu, Liping Peng, Charles Sutton, Thanh Tran, Michael Zink, Capturing Data Uncertainty in High-Volume Stream Processing. In Proceedings of the Fourth biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems, Pacific Grove, CA, January 2009.
Ellen Bass, Leigh Baumgart, Brenda Philips, Kevin Kloesel, Kathleen Dougherty, Havidán Rodriguez, William Donner, Jenniffer Santos, Walter Diaz, Michael Zink, Incorporating emergency management needs in the development of weather radar networks. Journal of Emergency Management, 7(1), 45-52, March 2009
Michael Zink, Kyoungwon Suh, Yu Gu, and Jim Kurose, Characteristics of YouTube Network Traffic at a Campus Network - Measurements, Models, and Implications. Elsevier Computer Networks. Vol. 53, No. 4, March 2009
Michael Zink, Eric Lyons, David Westbrook, Jim Kurose, and David Pepyne, Closed-loop Architecture for Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere: Meteorological Command & Control. International Journal for Sensor Networks (IJSNET)(Vol.6 No.4). In print.
Brian Donovan, David McLaughlin, Michael Zink, Jim Kurose, OTGsim: Simulation of an Off-the-Grid Radar Network with High Sensing Energy Cost. In Proceeding of IEEE SECON 2008. Technical Report version of the paper.
Dave Pepyne, David Westbrook, Brenda Philips, Eric Lyons, Michael Zink, and Jim Kurose, Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensor Networks for Remote Sensing Applications. In Proceedings of American Control Conference, June 2008.
Michael Zink, Kyoungwon Su, Yu Gu, and Jim Kurose, Watch Global Cache Local: YouTube Network Traces at a Campus Network - Measurements and Implications. In Proceedings of MMCN 2008, San Jose, CA, USA, Jan 2008. Best Paper Award!
Ming Li, Tingxin Yan, Deepak Ganesan, Eric Lyons, Prashant Shenoy, Arun Venkataramani, and Michael Zink, Multi-user Data Sharing in Radar Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of The 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys 2007), Sydney, Australia, Nov 2007.
Timothy Ireland, Adam Nyzio, Michael Zink, Jim Kurose, The Impact of Directional Antenna Orientation, Spacing, and Channel Separation on Long-distance Multi-hop 802.11g Networks: A Measurement Study. In Proceedings of the third International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements (WiNMee), Limassol, Cyprus, April 2007.
Chun Zhang, Jim Kurose, Yong Liu, Don Towsley, and Michael Zink, A Distributed Algorithm for Joint Sensing and Routing in Wireless Networks with Non-Steerable Directional Antennas. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'06), November, 2006.
Michael Zink, David Westbrook, Sherief Abdallah, Bryan Horling, Vijay Lakamraju, Eric Lyons, Victoria Manfredi, Jim Kurose, and Kurt Hondl, Meteorological Command and Control: An End-to-end Architecture for a Hazardous Weather Detection Sensor Network. In Proceedings of the Workshop on End-to-End, Sense-and-Respond Systems, Applications, and Services, Seattle, WA, USA, June 2005.
Teaching
Introduction to Systems Engineering CS 491M
Independent Study in Wireless Networking
Professional Activities
Program Committee:PAM 2008, MMCN 2008, ACM MM 2007, MMCN 2007, ACM MM 2006, NOSSDAV 2006, Euromicro 2006, CCNC 2006, MMCN 2006