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Publications

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Here are all my publications from when I was a PhD student, and later a research associate. I haven’t published in a while :(

Most of the LaTeX for these publications, as well as associated conference presentations can be found at github.com/bramp/publication.

PhD Thesis

The Impact of Highly Interactive Workloads on Video-on-Demand Systems – 2008

Networking

Facilitating Network Auto Configuration In Next Generation Internet Protocols – GLOBECOM 2009
Evaluating the Performance of Network Protocol Processing on Multi-core Systems – AINA 2009

Content Distribution Networks / Video-on-demand

Characterising and Exploiting Workloads of Highly Interactive Video-on-Demand – Multimedia Systems Journal 2009
A case for hybrid content distribution for interactive video-on-demand – Future Multimedia
Networking 2008
Characterising user interactivity for sports video-on-demand – NOSSDAV 2007

Distributed Hash Table / Peer-to-peer

Performance modelling of peer-to-peer routing – HOTP2P 2007
Stealth Distributed Hash Table: A robust and flexible super-peered DHT – CoNEXT 2006
Authentication in Stealth Distributed Hash Tables – Euromicro 2006
Performance analysis of Stealth DHT with mobile nodes – MP2P 2006
Stealth Distributed Hash Table: Unleashing the Real Potential of Peer-to-Peer – CoNEXT 2005

BibTeX

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@inproceedings{brampton2005sdh,
       booktitle = {ACM Conference on Emerging Network Experiments and Technology (CoNEXT) (Student Workshop Session)},
           month = {October},
           title = {Stealth Distributed Hash Table: Unleashing the Real Potential of Peer-to-Peer},
          author = {Andrew Brampton and Andrew MacQuire and Idris Rai and Nicholas J. P. Race and Laurent Mathy},
            year = {2005},
             url = {http://eprints.comp.lancs.ac.uk/1199/}
}

@inproceedings{macquire2006pas,
       booktitle = {3rd International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P)},
           month = {March},
           title = {Performance Analysis of Stealth DHT with Mobile Nodes},
          author = {Andrew MacQuire and Andrew Brampton and Idris Rai and Laurent Mathy},
            year = {2006},
           pages = {184--189},
             url = {http://eprints.comp.lancs.ac.uk/1248/}
}

@inproceedings{macquire2006asd,
       booktitle = {32nd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications},
           month = {August},
           title = {Authentication in Stealth Distributed Hash Tables},
          author = {Andrew MacQuire and Andrew Brampton and Idris Rai and Nicholas J. P. Race and Laurent Mathy},
            year = {2006},
             url = {http://eprints.comp.lancs.ac.uk/1297/}
}

@inproceedings{brampton2006sdh,
       booktitle = {2nd Conference on Future Networking Technologies (CoNEXT)},
           month = {December},
           title = {Stealth Distributed Hash Table: A Robust and Flexible Super-Peered DHT},
          author = {Andrew Brampton and Andrew MacQuire and Idris Rai and Nicholas J. P. Race and Laurent Mathy},
            year = {2006},
             url = {http://eprints.comp.lancs.ac.uk/830/}
}

@inproceedings{rai2007pmp,
       booktitle = {4th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (HOTP2P)},
           month = {March},
           title = {Performance Modelling of Peer-to-Peer Routing},
          author = {Idris Rai and Andrew Brampton and Andrew MacQuire and Laurent Mathy},
            year = {2007},
             url = {http://eprints.comp.lancs.ac.uk/1344/}
}

@inproceedings{brampton2007cui,
       booktitle = {International workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio \& Video (NOSSDAV)},
           title = {Characterising User Interactivity for Sports Video-on-Demand},
          author = {Andrew Brampton and Andrew MacQuire and Idris Rai and Nicholas J. P. Race and Laurent Mathy and Michael Fry},
             url = {http://eprints.comp.lancs.ac.uk/1464/},
            year = {2007},
           month = {June}
}

@article{macquire2008asd,
           title = {Authentication in stealth distributed hash tables},
         journal = {Journal of Systems Architecture},
          volume = {54},
          number = {6},
           pages = {607 - 618},
            year = {2008},
            note = {Selection of best papers from the 32nd EUROMICRO Conference on [`]Software Engineering and Advanced Applications' (SEAA 2006)},
            issn = {1383-7621},
             doi = {DOI: 10.1016/j.sysarc.2008.01.004},
             url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V1F-4RRFNJ5-2/2/52b536d2a682f07d8f6ae7b74f474390},
          author = {Andrew MacQuire and Andrew Brampton and Idris A. Rai and Nicholas J.P. Race and Laurent Mathy},
        keywords = {Distributed hash table},
        keywords = {Peer-to-peer},
        keywords = {Security},
        keywords = {Public key infrastructure},
        keywords = {Stealth DHT}
}

@article{brampton2008cew,
           title = {Characterising and Exploiting Workloads of Highly Interactive Video-on-Demand},
          author = {Andrew Brampton and Andrew MacQuire and Michael Fry and Idris Rai and Nicholas J. P. Race and Laurent Mathy},
       publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
            year = {2008},
         journal = {Multimedia Systems Journal},
             url = {http://eprints.comp.lancs.ac.uk/1465/}
}

@inproceedings{macquire2008acf,
       booktitle = {International workshop on Future Multimedia Networking (FMN)},
           title = {A Case for Hybrid Content Distribution for Interactive Video-on-Demand},
          author = {Andrew MacQuire and Andrew Brampton and Michael Fry and Nicholas Race and Laurent Mathy},
            year = {2008},
           month = {September},
}

@inproceedings{faulkner2009epn,
       booktitle = {International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA)},
           title = {Evaluating the Performance of Network Protocol Processing on Multi-core Systems},
          author = {Matthew Faulkner and Andrew Brampton and Stephen Pink},
            year = {2009},
           month = {May},
}

@inproceedings{jakeman2009fna,
       booktitle = {FutureNet II - Second international workshop on the network of the future in conjunction with IEEE Globecom},
           title = {Facilitating Network Auto Configuration In Next Generation Internet Protocols},
          author = {Matthew Jakeman and Andrew Brampton and Stephen Pink},
            year = {2009},
           month = {December},
}

@phdthesis{brampton2008thesis,
          author = {Andrew Brampton},
           title = {The Impact of Highly Interactive Workloads on Video-on-Demand Systems},
          school = {Lancaster University, UK},
            year = {2008},
}

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Open Source Projects

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve always been a big fan of open source, and always try and contribute where I can. In addition over the years I have created multiple small projects that I give back to the community. Here are the ones I have on GitHub:

libcec-daemon – c++ libcec uinput
A Linux daemon for connecting libcec to uinput. That is, using your TV to control your PC over HDMI!

threadnetperf – c epoll
A highly customisable high performance multi-threaded network benchmarking tool. This tool was able to max out 20Gbit/s of bandwidth using commodity multi-core hardware. This supported research that existing benchmarking tools were unable to.

js-sequence-diagrams – javascript
Draws simple SVG sequence diagrams from textual representation of the diagram.

hessian.js – node.js javascript
Node.js support for the Hessian binary web service protocol written in pure javascript. This was implemented to interface with a legacy Java service. Hessian.js is available from npm.

handy-tools – python
A collection of helpful cli tools written in python. Create histograms from raw data, create heatmaps of performance, or monitor applications with ease.

protoc-gen-php – c++ protobuf php
A PHP Protocol Buffer Generator Plugin for protoc.

nodewii – c++ node.js wii
Bindings for node.js to speak to a Wiimote. This includes a socket.io demo, of the Wiimote controlling a webpage in realtime. Read the blog article, or view my NationJS talk

jambox – c
A Linux implementation of the protocol used to communicate with the Jambox by Jawbone. This was reverse engineered from the Bluetooth protocol the official Windows application used.

libmintchip – c
Unofficial C library for interfacing with MintChips – Unfinished, and mostly an exercise in reverse engineering a protocol.

Connected-component-labelling – javascript
Simple JavaScript library that does connected-component labelling (aka blob extraction). It uses the Algorithm described in the paper “A linear-time component labelling algorithm using contour tracing technique”. This is useful for Computer Vision problems, such as identifying objects in a photo. Originally written to support a JavaScript sudoku solver (that solves directly from a photo of a puzzle).

p2psim – java
A peer-to-peer distributed hash table (DHT) simulator. This was created to support some of my distributed systems research simulating 1000 node networks.

ByteTorrent – c++
A pure C++ implementation of the BitTorrent protocol. This was a project I wrote 11 years ago, and was used by atleast one complete BitTorrent client.

php5-spotify – php c
This is a simple PHP extension that wraps some of the functionality of the C library libspotify.

ndsfs – c fuse
A FUSE application to mount Nintendo DS roms,

us-census-tools – php
A collection of scripts I’ve written to handle US Census data. For example, importing the American Community Survey (ACS) data into various databases, or converting the Census TIGER/Line® Shapefiles so they can easily be displayed on maps.

jPsyScript – java objective-C
A java implementation of PsyScript a simple programming languge for psychologists to run experiments. The original version was written in Objective-C, and I reimplementation in Java so it was portable, and could be run from within a webpage.

As well as creating projects, I have made contributions to at least the following projects:

Linux Kernel, FreeBSD, PHP, Python, Redis, libzip, Click, Chromium, archivemount, NanoHTTPd and more I just don’t remember.

Android-apps

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About Me

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Andrew Brampton Ph.D lives in the Bay Area, previously lived in Washington DC, but is originally from the United Kingdom. Enjoys playing with new technologies, loves working on large scale, high performance applications. Currently works at Google on the Android/Play SRE teams.

Spends his weekends working on fun and novel projects, most of which he open sources. He can occasionally be found at tech Meetups, and sometimes he even speaks.

Previously he was a researcher within the computer science department at Lancaster University, where he obtained his Ph.D at age 26. His areas of research revolve around distributed systems, in particular peer-to-peer, distributed hash tables (DHTs), and content distribution networks (CDNs).

My Curricula Vitae / Résumé

This may be a little out of date since I only it when needed. If you require a more up to date copy then please contact me – PDF – LaTeX source

Contact Me

I can be reached at me bramp.net