Academic profile

1999 - 2003: Secondary School (Worcester Gymnasium)
2004 - 2006: B.Sc. Computer Engineering (UCT)
2007: B.Sc. (hons) Computer Science (UCT)
2008 - current: M.Sc. Computer Science (UCT)

2007: B.Sc. (hons) Computer Science

Listed are the modules I chose that formed the coursework part of my degree:

Interaction Design
New Venture Planning
Advanced Computer Systems
Distributed Computing
Network and Internetwork Security
Internet Interoperability
Parallel Computing
Experiments with Genetic Algorithms
IFIP Summer School 2007
Research Methods & Professional Communications Unit
Intra-domain Traffic Engineering

In addition, students are required to complete a project. My honours project involved performance analysis of fixed Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), titled An Extensible Software Testbed for Wireless Mesh Networks. More detail is available here ...

2008 - current: M.Sc. Computer Science

My topic involves Quality of Service (QoS) analysis in wireless networks. More detail is available here ...

Research Interests

I am primarily interested in performance modelling primarily using simulation. Wireless Internet technologies is my choice for performance evaluation, however other field of interest include

wireless sensor networks (WSN),
high performance computing (HPC), and
network security.

Workshops/Tutorials

Attended:

ISS'07 IFIP Summer School on Software Technologies, Gordon's Bay, March 2007. presentation slides
Tutorial on Wireless Sensor Networks. Visit by Ian Akyildiz. Stellenbosch, 8 August 2007. presentation slides

Publications

Technical Reports

Asherson, S., Kritzinger, P. and Pileggi P. Wireless Standards and Mesh Networks. Technical Report CS07-02-00, Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town. 2007.
Pileggi, P. and Kritzinger, P. Models of Hybrid Wireless Networks with Realistic Workloads. Technical Report CS06-17-01, Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town. 2006.

Conferences

Iazeolla, G., Kritzinger, P. and Pileggi, P. Modelling Quality of Service in IEEE 802.16 Networks. 16th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM'08). September 25 - 27, 2008. Split - Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Kritzinger, P. and Pileggi, P. Performance Modeling of the Wireless Internet. WRECOM'07. October 2007. Rome, Italy. (Presentation slides available here)