Past Projects at the University of Virginia:

• QoS Management for Data Services in Real-Time Embedded Systems and Sensor Networks
• LUSTER:  a Wireless SensorNetwork for Environmental Research
• Genesis II:  a Standard-based Grid Platform

Ph.D Dissertation:

• Adaptive Real-Time Data Management for Cyber-Physical Systems

Recent Papers:

• Woochul Kang, S. H. Son, and John A. Stankovic, "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Data Abstraction Layer for Large-Scale 2-tier Sensor Networks", under review (extended version).
  
• Woochul Kang, S. H. Son, and John A. Stankovic, "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a QoS-Aware Real-Time Embedded Database", under review (extended version).
• Woochul Kang, "FFP: Filtered Failure Prediction for Computational Grids", under review (extended version).
• Woochul Kang and S. H. Son, and John A. Stankovic, "DRACON: QoS Management for Large-Scale Distributed Real-Time Databases", Journal of Software, vol 4, no 7, pp. 747-757, 2009.
• Woochul Kang, S. H. Son, and John A. Stankovic, "PRIDE: A Data Abstraction Layer for Large-Scale 2-tier Sensor Networks", The 6th IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad-hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2009), Rome, Italy, June, 2009 (Acceptance rate 18%).
• Woochul Kang, S. H. Son, and John A. Stankovic, "QeDB: A Quality-Aware Embedded Real-Time Database", 15th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2009), San Francisco, US, April, , 2009 (Acceptance rate 25%).
• Gunnar Mathiason, Sten F. Andler, Woochul Kang, "Exploring a Multi-Tiered White-board Infrastructure for Information Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks“, Skovde Workshop on Information Fusion Topics (SWIFT), Skovde, Sweden, November, 2008.
• Woochul Kang, S. H. Son, "Data Services in Distributed Embedded Systems," 6th IFIP Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems (SEUS 2008), Capri Island, Italy, Oct, 2008
• Woochul Kang, S. H. Son, J.A. Stankovic, "Power-Aware Data Buffer Cache Management in Real-Time Embedded Databases," The 14th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2008), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, August, 2008 (Acceptance rate 26%).
• Woochul Kang, J.A. Stankovic and S. H. Son, "On Using Weather Information for Efficient Remote Data Collection in WSN,"ACM Fifth Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmnets), Charlottesville, Virginia, June, 2008
• Woochul Kang, S.H. Son, "The Design of an Open Data Service Architecture for Cyber-Physical Systems," SIGBED Review, Volume5, Number 1, Jan., 2008
• Woochul Kang, S. H. Son, J.A. Stankovic, M. Amirijoo, "I/O-Aware Deadline Miss Ratio Management in Real-Time Embedded Databases," 28th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2007), Tucson, AZ, Dec3-6, 2007 (Acceptance rate 26%).
• L. Selavo, A. Wood, Q. Cao,T. Sookoor, H. Liu,A. Srinivasan, Y. Wu, Woochul Kang, J. Stankovic, D. Young, J. Porter, "LUSTER: Wireless Sensor Network for Environmental Research," The 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Sydney, Australia, Nov, 2007 (Acceptance rate 17%).
• Woochul Kang, H. Huang, A. Grimshaw. "A Highly Available Job Execution Service in Computational Service Market," 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007), Austin, TX, Sept 19-21, 2007 (Acceptance rate 21%)
• Woochul Kang. and A. Grimshaw. 2007, "Failure Prediction in Computational Grids," In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS'07), Norfolk, VA, Mar, 2007
• A. Grimshaw, Woochul Kang, D. Merrill, M Morgan, "Integration of Legacy Grid Systems with Emerging Grid Standards," 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC'06) (Short paper), Research Triangle Park, NC, 24-27 July 2005.