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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.
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