About Me

Email: chathura.sarathchandra[at]gmail.com

My Personal page at InterDigital.

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Research Interests

Mobile Systems
Distributed Systems
Telecommunications

Research Projects

6G-XR - Project's Innovation Manager, Grant Proposal Co-Author and Project Manager for InterDigital; 6G eXperimental Research infrastructure to enable next-generation XR services; (Horizon Europe Funded); 01-01-2023 - 31-12-2025.
FLAME - Contributor; Horizon 2020 funding framework-backed project exploring advanced 5G mobile networking technology, The FLAME platform will provide the capability to cheaply broadcast content to multiple users, without any need for adopting clients and services to specific multicast protocols, significantly reducing the predicted cost increase for video delivery.
iCIRRUS - Grant Proposal Co-Author and Research Associate and Project Manager for NCL, UEssex. (intelligent Converged network consolidating Radio and optical access aRound USer equipment). Grant amount: around €4M, 1 Jan. 2015 - 31 Dec. 2017
UK EPSRC - Research Associate and Project Manager for NCL, UEssex; (Engineering & Physics Science Research Council) funded project NIRVANA (Intelligent, Heterogeneous Virtualised Networking Infrastructure). Grant amount: around €1M, Oct. 2014 - 30 Sep. 2017
CLIMBER- Research Associate; (Cross-Layer Investigation and Integration of Computing and Networking Aspects of Mobile Social Networks); EU-funded FP7 Project.
MONICA - Research Associate; (Mobile Cloud Computing: Networks, Services and Architecture), EU - funded FP7 Project.

Other Projects

IEEE Intercloud - Founding Member and Project Manager for UEssex (2012 - 2017) ; 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. -
OpenAirInterface (OAI) : Individual and Alliance Member (UEssex) - 2012 - 2017.

Software

Androidx86-Openstack - SourceForge (7k+ Downloads)
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.

My professional activities can be found here

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