About Me

Email: chathura.sarathchandra[at]gmail.com

My Personal page at InterDigital.

Research Interests

Mobile Systems
Distributed Systems
Virtualisation

Research Projects

6G-XR (Horizon Europe Funded): 6G eXperimental Research infrastructure to enable next-generation XR services. 01-01-2023 - 31-12-2025. Innovation Manager and grant proposal co-author.
iCIRRUS (European Union Funded) (intelligent Converged network consolidating Radio and optical access aRound USer equipment). Grant amount: around €4M, 1 Jan. 2015 - 31 Dec. 2017- Grant proposal co-author and Research Associate.
UK EPSRC (Engineering & Physics Science Research Council) funded project NIRVANA (Intelligent, Heterogeneous Virtualised Networking Infrastructure). Grant amount: around €1M, Oct. 2014 - 30 Sep. 2017 - Research Associate.
EU (European Union)-funded FP7 Project CLIMBER (Cross-Layer Investigation and Integration of Computing and Networking Aspects of Mobile Social Networks). - Research Associate.
EU (European Union)-funded FP7 Project MONICA (Mobile Cloud Computing: Networks, Services and Architecture). - Research Associate.

Other Projects

IEEE Intercloud : Organized under the IEEE Standards Association Industry Connections Program, and jointly sponsored by the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative, the IEEE Cloud Computing Standards Committee, and the IEEE Standards Association. The IEEE Cloud Computing Standards Committee is sponsoring the development of technical standards (including IEEE P2302) for cloud to cloud interoperability. The objective of the IEEE Intercloud Testbed Project is to create a global lab to prove and improve the Intercloud technology and provide a springboard for the Intercloud to become a commercial reality. - Member and POC for Essex.
OpenAirInterface (OAI) : Individual and Alliance Member (UEssex).

Software

Androidx86-Openstack - SourceForge
A Location-Aware Password Protection System (LAPPS) - Poster– 2013
A windows USB minifilter driver for blocking unauthorised devices (Commercialised by Conseal Security Ltd. UK).
An anaglyph 3D video recorder and virtual webcam device [Unix and Windows], for Minoru 3D Webcam – 2012
Cooperative Intelligent agents that eats and explores to survive in a simulated world - Youtube - Description.

Professional Activities

Program Committee member of the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC) 2024, Valencia, Spain.
Program Committee member of the WCNC Workshop 6GARCH: THE 3RD WORKSHOP ON 6G ARCHITECTURE (2024), Dubai, UAE.
Program Committee member of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC-2024), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Program Committee member of 38th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2024), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Program Committee member of the 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN 2024), Budapest, Hungary.
Program Committee member of the 5th International Conference on AI in information and communication (ICAIIC 2024), Osaka, Japan.
Program Committee member of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC-2023).
Program Committee member of The 14th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2023), Napoli, Italy
Program Committee member of The 8th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing 2023, Tartu, Estonia
Program Committee member of The 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks 2023, Paris, France.
Program Committee member of the 5th International Conference on AI in information and communication (ICAIIC 2023), Bali, Indonesia.
Program Committee member of 37th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2023), Bangkok, Thailand.
Program Committee member (Cloud Infrastructure, Operation and Management) of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2022), Bangkok, Thailand
Program Committee member of The 36th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2022), Jeju Island, Korea.
Program Committee member of International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC 2022), Jeju Island, Korea.
Program Committee member of The 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication (ICAIIC 2022), Jeju Island, Korea.
Program Committee member of The Seventh International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing
(FMEC 2022), Paris, France.
Track Chair of The 17th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN 2021), Exeter, UK.
Publicity Chair of IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (IEEE CSCN 2021), Virtual.
Program Committee Member (shadow) of 16th EuroSys Conference (EuroSys 2021), Edinburgh, UK.
Program Committee member of 35th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2021), Jeju island, Korea & virtual conference.
Program Committee member of 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2020), Bangkok, Thailand.
Program Committee member of The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020), Paris, France.
Program Committee member of 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019), Sydney, Australia.
Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Aerospace Electronics and Remote Sensing Technology (ICARES 2019), Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Program Committee member of The Fourth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2019), Rome, Italy.
Program Committee member of 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2018), Cyprus.
Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Aerospace Electronics and Remote Sensing Technology (ICARES 2018), Bali, Indonesia.
Program Committee Member of First IEEE International Workshop on Smart network Technologies and Edge computing for the Tactile Internet (STET 2018), IEEE NetSoft 2018, Montreal, Canada.
Program Committee member of The Third International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2018), Barcelona, Spain.
Program Committee member of 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2017), Hong Kong.
Program Committee member of ACM SIGCOMM 2017 Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications (MECOMM’2017), ACM SIGCOMM 2017, UCLA, CA, USA.
Program Committee member of In ternational Workshop on Information Centric Fog Computing (ICFC), IFIP Networking 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.
Program Committee member of IEEE 5th International Workshop on Cloud Computing Interclouds, Multiclouds, Federations, and Interoperability, IC2E 2016 - Berlin, Germany.
Program Committee member of IEEE 4th International Workshop on Cloud Computing Interclouds, Multiclouds, Federations, and Interoperability, IC2E 2015 - Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Program Committee member of International Workshop on Cloud Federation Management, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2015), December 7-10, 2015 -- Limassol, Cyprus
Program Committee member of IEEE Third International Workshop on Cloud Computing Interclouds, Multiclouds, Federations, and Interoperability, IC2E 2014 - Boston, USA, March 11, 2014.

News

Teleoperation Demo at MWC 2023, Barcelona, Spain
Webinar: What Will Bring XR to Scale For 6G?
Device Virtualization demo at MWC 2020, Spain.
Device Virtualization work has been presented at MWC 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
Device disintegration work has been presented at MWC 2018, Barcelona, Spain.
(Invited) Speaking at OAI 2nd workshop, EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France. - 19.05.2016
An article about mobile clone related work in iCIRRUS project featured on RCRWireless news - Sep, 2015
Poster presentation, iCIRRUS: intelligent Converged network consolidating Radio and optical access aRound USer equipment, Nathan. J. Gomes, Huiling Zhu, Philippos Assimakopoulos (University of Kent & Communications Research group, United Kingdom), Anthony Magee (ADVA Optical Networking, United Kingdom), Volker Jungnickel (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute & Technische Universität Berlin, Germany), Michael Parker, Chathura Sarathchandra Magurawalage (University of Essex, United Kingdom), EuCNC 2015, Paris, France, July 1, 2015.
A blog post has been featured on Mirantis's "This week in Openstack", www.mirantis.com - March 31, 2014 – April 6, 2014
Presented at Winemo London Meeting (at City University London) - 29.04.2014
Visited Cluster and Grid Computing Lab.(CGCL), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China 13 - 14,08,2013
Visited Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications of Ministry of Education, BUPT, Beijing, China.
Visited Grid Computing and Computer Security Laboratory, Jilin University, China.
Attended Sino-Europe Joint Workshop on Future Internet technologies, Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 22,07,2013
Speaker, Cloud Computing Workshop, East Anglia Small Business Workshop, Stoke by Nayland Hotel. 25.04.2013

Press Releases

On my recent work on Device Virtualization, at InterDigital. Inc.

The importance of making 6G experiences human-centric - TVBEurope - 15, May, 2023
Get Ready for a Future of Virtualized Devices - BizTech - 15, Nov, 2017
The future is not the cloud or the fog: it is actually the SEA! - ComputerWorld - 22, Jun, 2017
Device Virtualization - InterDigital - Nov, 2017
On offloading device functions - telecoms - Feb, 2019
New Paradigms for Device Virtualization - The Fast Mode - September, 2021.

Information on demonstrations done at the Mobile World Congress

iCIRRUS Project

Dissecting the 5G RAN where flexibility and fine integration will be king - CRCWireless - 14 Sep. 2016
Ethernet In The Fronthaul Opening Up 5G Potential - Inside 5G - 16, Apr, 2015

InterCloud Testbed Project

What's Next For The Cloud? The Intercloud - Forbes, Oct 8, 2013
Mission: Protocols to ease true cloud federation - GigaOM, Oct 8, 2013
Will Multiple Clouds Evolve Into the Intercloud? - Wired, Oct 10, 2013
IEEE launches new Intercloud Testbed project - Fierce Enterprise, Oct 14, 2013
What's the real reason to do cloud, again? - Cloudtech, Oct 4, 2014

Teaching

CE805 - Cloud Technologies and Systems | Laboratory | Course Material Design
CE222 - Operating Systems | Graduate Lab Assistant | 2013 - 2015
CE151 - Introduction to Programming | Graduate Lab Assistant | 2014
CE153 - Introduction to Database | Graduate Lab Assistant | 2014
CE101 - Professional Development | Graduate Lab Assistant | 2014
CE235 - Computer Security | Graduate Lab Assistant | 2013

Reading

My GoodReads profile, for book recommendations and to see what I am currently reading.