Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dalhousie University

Former Research Students of Dr. Hughes


Master of Computer Science

  1. Multi-variate Adaptive Protocols for Data Communications, by Mr. Manvinder Singh, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, May 1999.

  2. A Reliable Group Communications Protocol for Implosion Avoidance, by Mr. Mike Thomson, School of Computer Science, Technical University of Nova Scotia, May 1994.

  3. Network Analysis Tools for the IEEE 802.3 and Ethernet Local Area Networks, by Mr. Simon Fung, School of Computer Science, Technical University of Nova Scotia, October 1990.

  4. A Virtual Disk Mechanism for File Transfer, by Mr. Chandrasekaran Arun, School of Computer Science, Technical University of Nova Scotia, September 1990.

  5. The Design and Implementation of Multicast Address Recognition Hardware for the Ethernet, by Mr. Abdullah Bakbak, School of Computer Science, Technical University of Nova Scotia, May 1990.

  6. The Design and Implementation of a Hypertext System, by Mr. John Akerley, School of Computer Science, Technical University of Nova Scotia, August 1989.

  7. Multicast Routing in Interconnected Local Area Networks, by Mr. Pat Tomlinson, School of Computer Science, Technical University of Nova Scotia, July 1989.

  8. The Implementation of Multicast Communication in the MINIX Operating System Kernel, by Mr. David Cushing, School of Computer Science, Technical University of Nova Scotia, August 1988. (Nominated for the Governor-General's Medal.)

Master of Business Administration (Saint Mary's University)

  1. Claiming for Services Under the Canadian Forces Health Care Plan, by Mr. Wayne Girvan, December 1997.

Undergraduate Projects and Theses (Saint Mary's University)

  1. The Design and Implementation of Lego Shared Memory, by Mr. Dave Whiting, May 1998 (Honour's Thesis).

  2. An Examination of Reliable Intranetwork Multicast Protocols, by Mr. Andrew Estabrooks, May 1998 (Honour's Thesis).

  3. The Lego-Unix Security Manager, by Ms. Jillian Hockey, May 1997.

  4. Implementing UNIX Pipes in the Lego Environment, by Ms. Lamees Abou-rahma. Presented to the 1995 APICS Computer Science Conference, University College of Cape Breton, October 1995.

  5. The Lego Window Manager: A Message-based Textual Interface Supporting UNIX File I/O, by Ms. Judy Green. Won first prize for best student paper at the 1994 APICS Computer Science Conference, Acadia University, October 1994.

  6. Orphan Detection in a Process Migration Environment, by Mr. Glenn Stoddart. Poster presentation at SIGCSE '94 in Phoenix, March 1994.

  7. Applications towards the development of "The House as a System" model, by Mr. Chris Henkelmann, Saint Mary's University, April 1992.


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