Brief Description of Projects

2010: "Build infrastructure for storing NTLM creds in kernel keyring" so! project
"ccording to design proposed #y one of !$%& 'Microsoft(s net)ork file syste*+ Linu, kernel *odule
*aintainers - .eff Layton/ t0ere )as i*ple*ented infrastructure for cac0ing user credentials in t0e
kernel to transparently esta#lis0 sessions )it0 &a*#a ser1ers t0at only support NTLM aut0entication
*ec0anis*2 $t )as partially i*ple*ented in users space - "cifscresd" 3 0elper utility for stas0ing
&a*#a credentials4 and partially in kernel space - series of patc0es on Linu, for taking stas0ed
credentials on ti*e )0en internally a session is #eing esta#lis0ed2 T0e patc0es )ere successfully
*erged in *ainline Linu, kernel tree2
2011: 5esearc0 for T0reading Building Blocks Me*ory Pools
During *y $ntel interns0ip/ t0ere )as conducted analysis and gat0ered *etrics t0at pro1ed TBB
*e*ory pool concepts on real )orld soft)are e,a*ples2 "s part of t0e researc0/ "pac0e and %ire#ird
*e*ory pools )ere e*ulated )it0 TBB li#rary pools/ and #enc0*arks s0o)ed positi1e perfor*ance
i*pact in all cases2 "lso/ in1estigation of pool algorit0* dra)#acks )as carried out/ and )ays for t0eir
eli*ination )ere proposed2
&a*sung 56D $nstitute 5ussia
2012: L7 Microkernel 8yper1isor )it0 Li1e Migration support
!ooperati1ely )it0 Dresden 9ni1ersity of Tec0nology/ a *icrokernel 0yper1isor )as designed and
de1eloped2 "s a #ase for 0yper1isor it )as decided to c0oose L7 %iasco2:! *icrokernel for its *aturity
and security2 enode *icrokernel fra*e)ork )as picked out for its continuous dri1er support2 Ne,t/
app container *ec0anis* )as de1eloped to support li1e *igration of applications sea*lessly at any
*o*ent2 &uc0 *ec0anis* as li1e *e*ory tracking/ dri1er state suspension and resu*ption/ !P9 state
transferring )ere designed and i*ple*ented2 &pecially para1irtuali;ed Linu, kernel )as de1eloped as
a sa*ple application2 %inally/ auto*atic testing en1iron*ent 'cluster of tens of "5M !orte,3"<
#oards+ )as deployed to pro1e production =uality of resulted syste* 27>?2
201@: :pen%lo) controlla#le 1irtual s)itc0 for &53$:A capa#le net)ork de1ices
"s it turned out/ t0ere )as no )ay to use :pen%lo) soft)are 1irtual s)itc0es on 0ard)are
configurations co*prising a &53$:A net)ork cards2 &o/ researc0 )as conducted and t0e ne) design
for suc0 tec0nology )as proposed/ considered and discussed2 :n t0e #eginning of t0is fall t0e first
prototype )as de1eloped and tested on real )orld usecases like &oft)are Defined Data !enters2 T0e
prototype )as successfully integrated in :pen&tack !loud *anage*ent syste*2 Perfor*ance and
feature tests are no) #eing carried out #y our staff2