Addendum to vitae for Martin W. McKinnon, III

PATENTS

  1. United States Patent no. 7,299,284, Solicitations for allocations of access across a shared communications medium, issued on November 20, 2007 to Scientific-Atlanta with McKinnon, Martin W. III; Subramanian, Mani M.; Sotack, Timothy Sean; Ehrley, John J. as named inventors
  2. United States Patent no. 7,274,667, Monitoring and allocating access across a shared communications medium, issued on September 25, 2007 to Scientific-Atlanta with McKinnon, Martin W. III; Subramanian, Mani M.; Sotack, Timothy Sean; Ehrley, John J. as named inventors
  3. United States Patent no. 7,184,398, Allocating access across shared communications medium to user classes, issued February 27, 2007 to Scientific-Atlanta with McKinnon, Martin W. III; Subramanian, Mani M.; Sotack, Timothy Sean; Ehrley, John J. as named inventors
  4. United States Patent no. 7,009,992, " Methods of allocating access across a shared communications medium ", issued on March 7, 2006 to Scientific-Atlanta with McKinnon, Martin W. III; Subramanian, Mani M.; Sotack, Timothy Sean; Ehrley, John J. as named inventors
  5. United States Patent no. 6,993,044, " Computerized method for allocating access across a shared communication medium ", issued on January 31, 2006 to Scientific-Atlanta with McKinnon, Martin W. III; Subramanian, Mani M.; Sotack, Timothy Sean; Ehrley, John J. as named inventors
  6. United States Patent no. 6,917,628, "Allocating access across a shared communications medium of a DOCSIS 1.0 compliant cable network", issued on July 12, 2005 to Scientific-Atlanta with McKinnon, Martin W. III; Subramanian, Mani M.; Sotack, Timothy Sean; Kolesnikov, Oleg M.; Harrell, James E. Jr. as named inventors
  7. United States Patent no. 6,917,622, "Allocating access across a shared communications medium in a carrier network", issued on July 12, 2005 to Scientific-Atlanta with McKinnon, Martin W. III; Subramanian, Mani M.; Sotack, Timothy Sean; Ehrley, John Joseph as named inventors
  8. United States Patent no. 6,823,385, Allocating access across a shared communications medium to user classes, issued on November 23, 2004 to Scientific-Atlanta with McKinnon, Martin W. III; Subramanian, Mani M.; Sotack, Timothy Sean; Ehrley, John Joseph as named inventors
  9. United States Patent no. 6,845,106, Allocating access across a shared communications medium, issued on November 22, 2004 to Scientific-Atlanta with McKinnon, Martin W. III; Subramanian, Mani M.; Sotack, Timothy Sean; Ehrley, John Joseph as named inventors
  10. European Patent no. EP 1218832, Allocating Access Across Shared Communications Medium, issued on July 3, 2002 to Scientific-Atlanta with McKinnon, Martin W. III; Subramanian, Mani M.; Sotack, Timothy S.; Ehrley, John Joseph as named inventors (International Publication Number WO 01/90957 A1)
  11. Canadian Patent no. CA 2409904, Allocating Access Across Shared Communications Medium, issued on November 29, 2001 to Scientific-Atlanta with McKinnon, Martin W. III; Subramanian, Mani M.; Sotack, Timothy S.; Ehrley, John Joseph as named inventors (International Publication Number WO 01/90957 A1)
  12. United States Patent Application 10/410,878 (unpublished), Apparatus and Methods for Incorporating Bandwidth Forecasting and Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation into a Broadband Communication System, Carlson, William S.; Moyer, Matthew J.; McKinnon, Martin W., III; Freeman, Rufus, Jr.; Hart, John Bradford; filed April 9, 2003

SELECTED CONSULTING ENGAGEMENTS

Daqtron, Inc., Roswell, GA (April 2004-Present): Strategic market advisor for a cable hardware company

Thrive Technologies, Atlanta, GA (January 2004-March 2004): Strategic advisor, technical design and implementation (VB (.NET) on Win XP, SQL Server) for web-enabled supply chain management

2M2 Data, Inc., Atlanta, GA (November 2003-June 2006): Self-funded development of SNMP monitoring/storage/graphing/alarm package using Python, Linux, php, MySQL, and jpgraph

Votara Corporation, Baltimore, MD (October 2003-March 2004): Technical advisor and design for IVR technology implemented in food service space

Peracom, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC (June 1998-December 1998): Simulation development of scalable switching architectures

Yurie Systems , Landover, MD (August 1997-May 1998): Performance analysis of adaptive queue management algorithm used in ATM edge devices

Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden (February 1997-August 1997): Simulation of dynamic resource reservation scheme for providing QoS over IP

Pratt & Whitney, Hartford, CT (May 1992-August 1993): Ethernet and FDDI network modeling & simulation 

SELECTED REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

  1. A. Awad, R. Sivakumar and M. W. McKinnon, "MPFD: A Lookahead Based Buffer Management Scheme for MPEG-2 Video Traffic'', Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Kemer-Antalya, Turkey, July 2003.
  2. A. Awad, M. W. McKinnon and R. Sivakumar, "Estimation of Video Queueing Performance Using Markov Chains'', Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, November 2002.
  3. A. Awad, M. W. McKinnon and R. Sivakumar, "Goodput Estimation of an Access Node Buffer Carrying Correlated Video Traffic", IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Taormina, Italy, July 2002.
  4. Wardi, Y., B. Melamed, and M. W. McKinnon, "Modeling, Simulation, and Perturbation Analysis of Continuous Flow Models", Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation 1999, Barcelona, Spain, October 1999
  5. McKinnon, M. W., M. F. Azeem, M. A. Eshleman, "Separation of Contiguous Cells as a Result of a WDM Switch Architecture", Photonics East 1999, Boston, MA, September 1999
  6. McKinnon, M. W., Harry G. Perros, George N. Rouskas, "Performance Analysis of Broadcast WDM Networks Under IP Traffic", Performance Evaluation, vol. 36-37, pp. 333-358, August 1999
  7. McKinnon, M. W., G. N. Rouskas, and H. G. Perros, "Queueing-Based Analysis of Broadcast Optical Networks", Performance Evaluation Review, v. 26, n.1, June 1998 (Proceedings of Sigmetrics/Performance '98)
  8. McKinnon, M. W., G. N. Rouskas, and H. G. Perros, "Performance Analysis of a Photonic Single-Hop ATM Architecture with Tunable Transmitters and Fixed Frequency Receivers", Performance Evaluation, June 1998, pp. 89-112
  9. McKinnon, M. W., "Performance Analysis of a Class of Photonic Interconnection Architectures", Ph.D. dissertation, N. C. State University, Raleigh, NC, 1997
  10. McKinnon, M. W., and D. Tipper, "A Comparison of Transient Period Detection Algorithms Applied to Markovian Systems," Proceedings 1995 Summer Simulation Conference, July, 1995
  11. Wardi, Y., M. W. McKinnon, and R. Schuckle, "On Perturbation Analysis of Queueing Networks with Finitely Supported Service Time Distributions", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, v. 36, n. 7, pp. 863-867, July 1991

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Non-commercial Research Funding Received

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