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Over the years, the IRL has produced many accomplished Ph.D. graduates. All dissertations from IRL Ph.D. graduates are listed herein, with dissertation defense slides also linked when available.

2021

• Zhiyi Zhang
  "Named, Secured Data: A Fundamental Building Block for Secure Networking"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, June 2021.
  

2019

• Spyridon Mastorakis
  "Peer-to-Peer Data Sharing in Named-Data Networking"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, June 2019.
  

2018

• Haitao Zhang
  "NDNFit: An Open mHealth Application Built on Named Data Networking"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, June 2018.
  

2017

• Wentao Shang
  "Distributed Dataset Synchronization in Named Data Networking"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, June 2017.
  

2016

• Yingdi Yu
  "Usable Security for Named Data Networking"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, June 2016.
  Slides:

2015

• Ilya Moiseenko
  "Consumer/Producer Communication with Application Level Framing in Named Data Networking"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, June 2015.
  

2013

• Alexander Afanasyev
  "Addressing Operational Challenges in Named Data Networking Through NDNS Distributed Database"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, December 2013.
  Slides:
• Zhenkai Zhu
  "Support Mobile and Distributed Applications with Named Data Networking"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, June 2013.
  Slides:

2012

• Pei-chun Cheng
  "Understanding the BGP Transport Delay"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, March 2012.
  

2011

• Jong Han (Jonathan) Park
  "Understanding the Impact of Internal BGP Route Reflection"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, July 2011.
  Slides:
• Michael Meisel
  "BOND: Unifying Mobile Networks with Named Data"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, April 2011.
  

2010

• Eric Osterweil
  "Measurable Security: a New Substrate for DNSSEC"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, August 2010.
  

2009

• Ricardo Oliveira
  "Understanding the Internet AS-level Structure"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, December 2009.
  

2007

• Mohit Lad
  "Understanding and Diagnosing Routing Dynamics in Global Internet"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, January 2007.
  

2006

• Vasileios Pappas
  "Towards a Resilient Domain Name System"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, 2006.
  

2005

• Dan Pei
  "Building Resilient Internet Routing Protocols"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, 2005.
  

2004

• Lan Wang
  "Improving Internet Resilience through Lightweight Preventive Detection (LPD) and Persistent Detection & Recovery (PDR)"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, January 2004.
  
• Fan Ye
  "Building Resilient Sensor Networks by Exploiting Scale and Redundancy"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, 2004.
  

2003

• Nelson Tang
  "The Information Discovery Graph: A Framework for a Distributed Search Engine"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, 2003.
  
• Beichuan Zhang
  "Universal IP Multicast Delivery"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, 2003.
  

2001

• Yixin Jin
  "Distance Information Protocol (DIP) for Internet Distance Map Service (IDMaps)"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, 2001.
  
• Dan Massey
  "Fault Detection and Security in Routing Protocols"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, 2001.
  

2000

• Andreas Terzis
  "A Two-Tier Resource Allocation Framework for the Internet"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, 2000.
  
• Jun Wei
  "Diffusion Model for Multicast Delivery"
  Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA, 2000.