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John A. Zinky Ph.D.
Division Scientist
Mail: jzinky at bbn.com617-873-2561
BBN Technologies
10 Moulton St
Cambridge, MA 02139I have worked at BBN Technologies since 1983 on a variety of projects concerned with performance analysis of distributed systems. I am currently studying the interaction between distributed applications and computer networks. I am an architect of the QuO (Quality Objects) framework, which handles Quality of Service (QoS) issues at the distributed objects level (CORBA) . QuO allows distributed applications to adapt to extreme runtime variation in its environment. QuO has also been integrated with the Cougaar agent middleware.
My past projects include: principle investigator for the bandwidth management part of QuO; principle investigator for knowledge-based tools for troubleshooting performance problems in computer networks, including the BBN SpyGlass protocol analysis environment and the ANT network path-modeling environment; and performance analyst for the ARPANET where I developed techniques that stabilized load sensitive routing.
Selected Publications
John Zinky, Richard Shapiro, Sarah Siracuse, Todd Wright "Implementing QoS-Adaptation in Coordination Artifacts by Enhancing Cougaar Multi-Agent Middleware" , in IEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability (MASS 2005) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA August 30-31, 2005
John Zinky, Richard Shapiro, Sarah Siracuse, "Complementary Methods for QoS Adaptation in Component-based Multi-Agent Systems" First IEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent Security (MASS 2004), Philadelphia, PA, August 30-31, 2004
John Zinky, Joseph Loyall, and Richard Shapiro. "Runtime Performance Modeling and Measurement of Adaptive Distributed Object Applications", in Proceeding of International Symposium on Distributed Object and Applications, DOA 2002, October 28-30 2002, University of California, Irvine CA USA.
Zinky J, Bakken D, Krishnaswamy V, Ahamad M, "PASS - A Service for Efficient Large Scale Dissemination of Time Varying Data Using CORBA", IEEE ICDCS 1999
Zinky J, Bakken D, Schantz R, "Architectural Support for Quality of Service for CORBA Objects," Theory and Practice of Object Systems (TAPOS), April 1997
Zinky J, White F. "Visualizing Packet Traces", ACM SIGCOMM 92.
Zinky J, Etkin J "Troubleshooting Throughput Bottlenecks using Executable Models", Networks and ISDN 24 (1992) North-Holland Press.
Khanna A, Zinky J, "Revised Routing Metric for ARPANET", ACM SIGCOMM 89, September 1989.
Etkin J, Zinky J, "Development Life Cycle of Computer Networks: The Executable Model Approach", IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, September 1989.
Patents
6,691,148 6,629,126 6,480,879
