Program Leader

I am a Sr. Principal Researcher and Research Theme Manager, Networked Systems at NICTA where I am currently involved in the TEMPO, Structural Health Monitoring and CAMP project.

I am also heavily involved in many of the worldwide experimental research facility activities, such as GENI (US) and FIRE with many testbeds adopting our award-winning OMF control and management framework.

Before coming to NICTA I founded Semandex, which is a pioneer provider of Content-Based Networks, a new generation of Enterprise Information Integration and Knowledge Management systems. At Semandex I invented, designed, and directed the implementation of the core technology behind the company's line of content routing products. I am still serving on the board of Semandex.

I am also holding a Research Professor appointment at WINLAB, Rutgers University where I am responsible for the software architecture of the ORBIT testbed.

Prior to that, I was a technical manager at the Communications and Computing Research Laboratory (CCRL), NEC USA where my responsibilities included providing technical leadership inthe area of multimedia/Internet software within NEC CCRL's network systems research activities. Before that, I was a visiting scientist at the NHK Science and Research Laboratories.

I received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, an M.S. from the Technical University Vienna, Austria, and an excellent foundation from the HTBLA Steyr.

Professional Activities

General Chair for CoNeXT ‘10, Pervasive ‘08, M2NM.
Program Chair for Mobiquitous ‘10, ROADS ‘09.
PC Member for CoNeXT‘10, WiMesh‘10, WiMob’10, PerCom ‘08, Sensys ‘07, Ubicomp ’07.

Publications

A list of my publications at NICTA can be found here while the following is a highly subjective sampling over my entire career:

• T. Rakotoarivelo. M. Ott, G. Jourjon, I. Seskar. OMF: A Control and Management Framework for Networking Testbeds, in ACM Operating Systems Review (OSR), pp. 54-59, December, 2009.
  ... describes OMF, a testbed control framework deployed in many wireless testbeds world wide.
• U. Rathnayake, M. Ott, A. Seneviratne, A DBN Approach for Network Availability Prediction, In Proc. MSWiM’09, pp. 7, Oct,2009 – Runner-up, Best Paper.
  … this paper describes the network prediction part of the EMUNE architecture developed in the CAMP project.
• M. Ott, L. French, R. Mago, and D. Makwana. XML-basedSemantic Multicast Routing: An Overlay Network Architecture for FutureInformation Services, In Proc. Globecom 2005, Dallas, Dec. 2004.
  ... describes an overlay network architecture for future content delivery services based on a dynamic semantic multicast model. Fundamental technology behind Semandex
• M. Ott, G.Welling, S. Mathur, D. Reininger, and R.Izmailov. The JOURNEY Active Network Model, In IEEE JSAC, March 2001, vol. 19, no. 3
  ... proposes a dual model of processing and routing with similar robust, but non-deterministic behaviors.
• E. Fulp, M. Ott, D. Reininger, and D. Reeves. Paying forQoS: An optimal distributed algorithm for pricing network resources, In Proc. IWQoS’08, Napa CA, May1998
  ... proposes and demonstrates a fully decentralized approach to network resource management based on micro-economic principles.

Awards

• Co-receipient of the Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation, Jan 2008.
• The 1999 APCC-APB Best Paper Award given by the Asian Pacific Board of the IEEE Communication Society.
• Niwa-Takayanagi Award for Best Paper of 1990 in the Proceedings of the Association of Television Engineers of Japan.