Nahrstedt named an ACM Fellow
TCIPG's Klara Nahrstedt has been named an ACM Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery in recognition for her contributions to quality-of-service management for distributed multimedia systems.
Nahrstedt, who has been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Illinois since 1995, has long been a leading researcher in multimedia systems, having made multiple seminal contributions in quality of service (QoS) management for distributed multimedia systems. She is a member of the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Information Trust Institute.
Her early work on QoS brokerage with QoS translation, negotiation, and adaptation services set between application and transport layers to enable end-to-end QoS contracts, published as “QoS Broker” in 1995, changed the way multimedia end-system architectures are designed and built.
Later, she extended that work with a novel adaptation that modeled the end-to-end QoS problem based on a control-theoretical approach — which was the first use of control theory in multimedia systems. She was also the first to address the issue of QoS-based routing in ad hoc networks.
Nahrstedt's research on QoS management of distributed multimedia systems is focused in three societal domains — trustworthy cyber-physical infrastructures for the smart grid, collaborative immersive spaces in tele-healthcare, and robust cyber-physical systems in the airline-airplane maintenance ecosystem.
Read more about Nahrstedt and her QoS research that contributed to this award in the original CSL news article.
Source: Jenny Applequist, CSL and ITI