Burak Kantarci

Burak Kantarci is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Kantarci received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 2005 and 2009, respectively, and he completed the major content of his PhD thesis at the University of Ottawa between 2007 and 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Hussein Mouftah. He was the recipient of the Siemens Excellence Award in 2005 for his contributions to the optical burst switching research. He has co-authored seventeen articles in established journals and fifty-two papers in many flagship conferences, and he has contributed to eight book chapters. He is the co-editor of Communication Infrastructures for Cloud Computing. He has been serving in the Technical Program Committees of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium, Optical Networks Symposium and Green Communication Systems Track of the Selected Areas in Communications Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM and IEEE ICC conferences. He is also co-chairing the International Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems. Dr. Kantarci is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a founding member of the IEEE Communications Society’s Technical Sub-committee on Green Communications and Computing.

Publications

Communication Infrastructures for Cloud Computing
Communication Infrastructures for Cloud Computing
Hussein T. Mouftah, Burak Kantarci. © 2014. 583 pages.
Cloud computing has provided multiple advantages as well as challenges to software and infrastructure services. In order to be fully beneficial, these challenges facing cloud...
Energy-Efficiency in Cloud Data Centers
Energy-Efficiency in Cloud Data Centers
Burak Kantarci, Hussein T. Mouftah. © 2014. 23 pages.
Cloud computing aims to migrate IT services to distant data centers in order to reduce the dependency of the services on the limited local resources. Cloud computing provides...
Energy-Efficiency in a Cloud Computing Backbone
Energy-Efficiency in a Cloud Computing Backbone
Burak Kantarci, Hussein T. Mouftah. © 2014. 23 pages.
Cloud computing combines the advantages of several computing paradigms and introduces ubiquity in the provisioning of services such as software, platform, and infrastructure....
Towards Energy Efficiency for Cloud Computing Services
Towards Energy Efficiency for Cloud Computing Services
Daniele Tafani, Burak Kantarci, Hussein T. Mouftah, Conor McArdle, Liam P. Barry. © 2014. 23 pages.
Over the past decade, the increasing complexity of data-intensive cloud computing services along with the exponential growth of their demands in terms of computational resources...
Robust Design and Management of Optical Networks: Incorporating Availability-Awareness
Robust Design and Management of Optical Networks: Incorporating Availability-Awareness
Hussein T. Mouftah, Burak Kantarci. © 2012. 32 pages.
High capacity advantage of optical networks also introduces the risk of huge data loss in case of a service interruption, even if the outage lasts a short time. Therefore...
Greening the Survivable Optical Networks: Solutions and Challenges for the Backbone and Access
Greening the Survivable Optical Networks: Solutions and Challenges for the Backbone and Access
Hussein T. Mouftah, Burak Kantarci. © 2012. 31 pages.
Electricity consumption contributes to a considerably large amount of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions while Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have a significant...