Dr. Veena B. Mendiratta

Consulting Member Technical Staff
Networking and Network Management Center
Ball Labs, Lucent Technologies
1960 Lucent Lane, Naperville, IL  60566, USA
veena@lucent.com
veenabhatia@gmail.com

Veena Mendiratta is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies in Naperville, Illinois. Her work is focused on the reliability and performance analysis for telecommunications systems products, networks and services to guide system architecture solutions. Her technical interests include architecture, reliability and survivability, fault tolerant computing and software reliability engineering. Recent work has also included architecting survivable telecommunications systems.
 
Professional activities include: Advisory Board member and Judge at the annual COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling for undergraduates; membership in INFORMS and IEEE; and Program Committee member for ISSRE, PDS and ISAS.

Veena has a B.Tech in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.

Selected Papers and Presentations

Mendiratta, V. B. and Souza, J. M., “Predicting Field Defects Based on Software Test Results,” Proceed­ings Workshop on Applied Software Reliability, DSN, Philadelphia, PA, June 2006.

Mendiratta, V. B., “Network Architecture and Dependability for VoIP,” Presentation at Workshop on Dependability of All-IP Networks, Espoo, Finland, May 2006.

Vilkomir, S. A., Parnas, D. L., Mendiratta, V. B. and Murphy, E., "Segregated Failures Model for Availability Evaluation of Fault-Tolerant Systems," Proceedings 29th Australasian Computer Science Conference, Hobart, Australia, January 2006.

De Herdt, K., Mendiratta, V. B., Souza, J. M. and Zimmerman, G. H., “What Can We Learn from Software Failure Data,” Proceedings International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, November 2005.

Vilkomir, S. A., Parnas, D. L., Mendiratta, V. B. and Murphy, E., “Availability Evaluation of Hardware/Soft­ware Systems with Several Recovery Procedures,” Proceedings International Computer Software and Applications Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005.

Gurbani, V., Jagadeesan, L. and Mendiratta, V. B., “Characterizing SIP Network Performance and Reliability,” Proceedings International Service Availability Symposium, Berlin, Germany, April 2005; also published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3694.

Liu, Y., Mendiratta, V. B. and Trivedi, K. S., “Survivability Analysis of Telephone Access Network,” Proceedings International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, St. Malo, France, November 2004.

Baker, M. C., Witschorik, C. A., Tuch, J. C., Hagey-Espie, W. and Mendiratta, V. B., “Architectures and Disaster Recovery Strategies for Survivable Telecommunications Services,” Bell Labs Technical Journal, 9(2): 125-145, 2004.

Mendiratta, V. B. and Witschorik, C. A., “Telephone Service Survivability,” Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks, Banff, Canada, October 2003.

Mendiratta, V. B., “A Simple ATM Backbone Network Reliability Model”, Proceedings Third International Network Conference, Plymouth, UK, July 2002.

Tutorials

Trivedi, K.S. and Mendiratta, V. B., “Continuous Availability Assurance,” Tutorial presented at Interna­tional Service Availability Symposium (ISAS), Helsinki, Finland, May 2006.

Mendiratta, V. B. and Witschorik, C. A., “Survivability of Telecommunications Systems — Concepts and Architectures,” Tutorial presented at Conference on Measurement, Modeling and Evaluation of Computer and Communications Systems, Nurnberg, Germany, March 2006.

Liu, Y., Mendiratta, V. B. and Trivedi, K. S., “Survivability of Telecommunications Systems — Concepts, Architectures and Analysis,” Tutorial presented at International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Florence, Italy, June 2004.

Gokhale, S. S. and Mendiratta, V. B., “Software Reliability Engineering Techniques,” Tutorial presented at IEEE Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), Los Angeles, January 2004.

Mendiratta, V. B. and Witschorik, C. A., “Introduction to Telecommunications System Survivability — A Practitioner’s View,” Tutorial presented at IEEE Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Net­works (DRCN), Banff, Canada, October 2003.