Rob Malan's Homepage:

Consists of mainly those elements that I look for in someone else's page: projects and papers.

Paddle-to-the-Sea:

Email:: rmalan@eecs.umich.edu
U.S. Mail Address:: Dept. of EECS; Software Systems Laboratory, or; Real-Time Computing Laboratory; University of Michigan; 1301 Beal Ave.; Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122
Office:: 2218 EECS; Phone: (734) 647-8086; Fax: (734) 763-8094

I've gone off and started a company, Arbor Networks.
I graduated May 2000 with my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering.
My advisor was Farnam Jahanian.
I'm responsible for the Protocol Scrubber.
I'm responsible for Windmill.
I'm also responsible for the Salamander distribution system .
My research lies in these projects:

I worked on the Mach operating system project in a previous life.

Defeating TCP/IP Stack Fingerprinting
Matthew Smart, G. Robert Malan, and Farnam Jahanian.
Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Security Symposium
August 2000; Denver, Colorado.
Transport and Application Protocol Scrubbing
G. Robert Malan, David Watson, Farnam Jahanian, and Paul Howell
Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM 2000 Conference,
March 2000; Tel Aviv, Israel.
[gzip'd postscript] [pdf] [citation]

Origins of Internet Routing Instability
Craig Labovitz, G. Robert Malan and Farnam Jahanian
Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM '99 Conference,
March 1999; New York, New York.
[gzip'd postscript] [pdf] [citation]
An Extensible Probe Architecture for Network Protocol Performance Measurement
G. Robert Malan and Farnam Jahanian
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 Conference,
September 1998; Vancouver, British Columbia.
[abstract] [gzip'd postscript] [pdf] [citation]
Internet Routing Instability
Craig Labovitz, G. Robert Malan, and Farnam Jahanian.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 6, Number 5, pages 515-528, October 1998.
Also appeared in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '97 Conference,
Best Student Paper Award; September 1997; Cannes, France.
[abstract] [gzip'd postscript] [pdf] [citation]

The UARC Web-Based Collaboratory: Software Architecture and Experiences
Sushila Subramanian, G. Robert Malan, Hyong Sop Shim, Jang Ho Lee, Peter Knoop, Terry Weymouth, Farnam Jahanian, Atul Prakash and Joseph Hardin
Handbook of Internet Computing, Chapter 1
CRC Press LLC
To be published in 2000
Software Architecture for the UARC Web-Based Collaboratory
Sushila Subramanian, G. Robert Malan, Hyong Sop Shim, Jang Ho Lee, Peter Knoop, Terry Weymouth, Farnam Jahanian, and Atul Prakash
IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 3, Number 2, March/April 1999.
[pdf (156k)] [citation]
Attribute-Based Data Dissemination for Internet Applications
G. Robert Malan, Farnam Jahanian, and Sushila Subramanian.
Journal of High Speed Networks (Special Issue on Multimedia Networking), Volume 7, Numbers 3,4, pages 319-337, 1998.
Salamander: A Push-based Distribution Substrate for Internet Applications
G. Robert Malan, Farnam Jahanian, and Sushila Subramanian.
Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems,
December 1997; Monterey, California.
[abstract] [gzip'd postscript] [citation]
Comparison of Two Middleware Data Dissemination Services in a Wide-Area Distributed System
G. Robert Malan, Farnam Jahanian and Peter Knoop.
Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems,
May 1997; Baltimore, Maryland.
[abstract] [gzip'd postscript] [citation]

An Application-level Quality of Service Architecture for Internet Collaboratories
G. Robert Malan and Farnam Jahanian.
Proceedings of the IEEE RTSS Workshop on Resource Allocation Problems in Multimedia Systems,
December 1996; Washington, DC.
[introduction] [gzip'd postscript] [citation]

Performance of a Distributed Object-Based Internet Collaboratory
G. Robert Malan, Farnam Jahanian, Craig Rasmussen, and Peter Knoop.
Technical Report CSE-TR-297-96, University of Michigan EECS Department,
July 1996.
[abstract] [gzip'd postscript] [citation]

eFlow: A Java-Based Workflow Service
G. Robert Malan, Jarir Chaar, Santanu Paul, and Peter Masters.
Proceedings of the OOPSLA '98 Workshop on Implementation and Application of Object Oriented Workflow Management Systems
October 1998; Vancouver, British Columbia.
[abstract] [gzip'd postscript] [citation]

An MS-DOS File System for UNIX
Alessandro Forin and Gerald R. Malan.
An extended version of a paper that appeared in the 1994 Winter USENIX Conference.
January 1994; San Francisco, California.
[abstract] [gzip'd postscript] [citation]

Microkernel Operating System Architecture and Mach
Black, D.L., Golub, D.B., Julin, D.P., Rashid, R.F., Draves, R.P., Dean, R.W.,
Forin, A., Barrera, J., Tokuda, H., Malan, G., and Bohman, D.
In Journal of Information Processing, 14(4), March 1992.
Also appeared in Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Micro-Kernels and Other Kernel Architectures, April 1992.
[abstract] [gzip'd postscript] [citation]

DOS as a Mach 3.0 Application
Gerald Malan, Richard Rashid, David Golub, and Robert Baron.
Proceedings of the USENIX Mach Symposium
November 1991; Monterey, California.
[abstract] [gzip'd postscript] [citation]

Speculations on the personal computer of the year 2000
Edited by Brad A. Myers.
Carnegie Mellon University. Technical Report CMU-CS-88-115, 1988.

-Rob