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Welcome to my personal space.

Currently, I am working at Cisco Systems as a Technical Marketing Engineer (TME) within the Policy Management Business Unit (PMBU).

Prior to joining Cisco I completed both, Masters and PhD degrees on Information Technologies (IT) and Telecommunications respectively from Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, Spain. In 2002 I started my career as researcher working in theNetwork Management Group (NMG) which was part of the Department of Signal Theory and Communications (TSC).

My really first job was in Deloitte Consulting Mexico where I was part of the technical support staff.

My research interests are oriented to Grid Computing, Policy-Based Management, Active Networks, Active Grid and Distributed Shared Resources Systems. I have worked in few research projects in the area of Network Management and Grid Services.

  
 
 
 

 
 

About Edgar Magaña (Wüaco)

  
 

What can I say about me... Let's start from my country. I was born in Mexico City, more or less 28 years ago :-) My parents are Ana Maria (Ana) and Jose Francisco (Pacolín). I have only one sister, her name is Titania Selenita (Tita). She is a happy mother of two wonderful girls named Lizbeth (liz) and Itzel (la cucaracha). I have a small family but really nice, I love them.

When I was a kid I used to play with all kind of electronics devices and then when I was bigger I started to have enormous interest for the computers, I can remember my first PC, it was a Commondor but I don't know exactly the serial number. So I studied Computer Sciences Engineering at hInstituto Politecnico Nacional of Mexico (IPN) and I received my bachelor degree in December, 2001.

My hobbies are Soccer (play more than watch it) and Photography. The second one was motivated due to the fact that my mom's family are all of them photographers mainly my grandfather (Don Pedro+). During my stay in Barcelona I have traveled to many places mainly in Europe, you will find some pictures within photos section.

I hope do you enjoy this web page…

Kind Regards to Everybody..

Edgar Magaña

May the force be with you..

 

  
 

 
 

Reserach Activities

  
 

 

Main Topics:

  • Grid Computing
  • Active Networks
  • Policy-Based Network Management

Research Projects:

  • MoGRIDServ: Management of Grid Services usig Policy Based and Active Networks Technologies
  • FAIN: Future Active IP Networks. IST-1999-10561
  • IPv4-IPv6: Sistema de Interconectividad entre Inet2 e Internet
Publications:

Magazines:

  • C. Tsarouchis, S. Denazis, Chiho Kitahara, J. Vivero, E. Salamanca, E. Magaña, A. Galis, J. Mañas, Y. Carlinet, et.al., "Policy-Based Management Architecture for Active and Programmable Networks", IEEE Network, May 2003, Vol.17, No.3.

Congresses and workshops:

  • E. Magaña, Laurent Lefevre and J. Serrat, "Autonomic Management Architecture for Flexible Grid Services Deployment Based on Policies", ARCS'07: Architecture of Computing Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland March 12-15, 2007.

Books:

 

  
 

 
 

PhD Thesis

  
 

 

A Distributed and Heuristic Policy-based Management Architecture for Large-Scale Grids

Thesis Presentation

Evaluation:

Cum Laude - May 30th 2008

Advisor:

PhD. Eng. Joan Serrat Fernández

Abstract:

The aim of this thesis is to design and implement a new Grid Resource Management methodology, where non-massive resources owners would be able to share their resources and integrate human collaboration across multiple domains regardless of network technology, operative platform or administrative domain.
This thesis proposes a distributed and heuristic policy-based resource management architecture for large-scale Grids. The resource management architecture proposed herein is composed of four main building blocs: services management, resource discovery and monitoring, resource scheduling and jobs allocation and activation. The Grid Services Management (GSM) and Jobs Allocation and Activation (JAA) are supported by means of a Policy-based Grid Resource Management Architecture (PbGRMA). This architecture is able to identify service needs arising from diverse sources during the deployment and management of Grid Services, such as requirements demanded by customers, applications and network conditions. Afterwards, the PbGRMA merges these requirements into deployment policies for the corresponding Grid Services. The Grid Resource Discovery and Monitoring (GRDM) is supported by the introduction of the SNMP-based Balanced Load Monitoring Agents for Resource Scheduling (SBLOMARS), in which network and computational resources are monitored by distributed agents. This allows for a flexible, heterogeneous and scalable monitoring system. The Grid Resource Scheduling (GRS) is based on the Balanced Load Multi-Constrained Resource Scheduler (BLOMERS). This heuristic scheduler represents an alternate way of solving the inherent NP-hard problem for resource scheduling in large-scale distributed networks by means of the implementation of a Genetic Algorithm.
Finally, based on the outcome of both the GRDM and GRS, the PbGRMA allocates the corresponding Grid Services by means of its interfaces with Globus ToolKit Middleware and Unix-based CLI commands along of any large-scale Grid Infrastructure.
The synergy obtained by these components allows Grid administrators to exploit the available resources with predetermined levels of Quality of Service (QoS), reducing computational costs and makespan in resource scheduling while ensuring that the resource load is balanced throughout the Grid. The makespan of a schedule is the time required for all jobs to be processed when no one job could be interrupted during its execution and each node can perform at most one operation at any time.
This new approach has been successfully tested in a real large-scale scenario such as Grid5000. The results presented along this Thesis show that our general solution is a reliable, flexible and scalable architecture to deploy and manage Grid Services in large-scale Grid Infrastructures. Moreover, the substitution of the heuristic algorithm approach used into the Grid Resource Scheduling (GRS) phase by other non-heuristics selection algorithms could make our solution useful in smaller Grid Infrastructures.

  
 
 
 

 
 

 

Contact Information

  

 

   

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Policy Management Business Unit

10 West Tasman Drive,
Building M- G4-2,
San Jose, CA, USA
CP. 95134

Phone:
+ 1 (408) 8538079
  

 
 

   

Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya

Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions

Campus Nord,
Building 213 - Module D4,
Jordi Girona Salgado 1-3,
Barcelona, Spain.
CP. 08034

Phone:
Fax:

+34 (93) 4017214
+34 (93) 4017200

  

 
 
   

eperdomo (at) cisco.com

emagana (at) gmail.edu

edgar_fnet_ipn (at) hotmail.com

 

  
 
 
   

 

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