Conor McArdle
Conor McArdle is an Assistant Professor with the School of Electronic Engineering in DCU. His research interests include telecommunications system performance analysis and next-generation datacenter optical networking.
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- ► Assistant Professor (2017-Present)
- ► Research Fellow (2008-2017)
ABOUT CONOR
Conor McArdle is an Assistant Professor with the School of Electronic Engineering in DCU. He has worked on European and SFI funded research projects in the areas of performance of telecommunications and datacentre networks and has worked with industry in the areas of dimensioning of mission-critical network management systems and on security aspects of mobile voice/data networks. He has supervised four PhD students and one research MEng student to completion in topics including high-speed optical network architectures for data centres and optical packet switching protocols and has co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed research papers in conference proceedings, journals and books. Conor currently teaches in the areas of object-oriented programming, algorithms and network modelling and dimensioning and has previously taught courses on data network protocols, telecommunications software architecture and database systems.RESEARCH INTERESTS
Edge Computing
hardware and software processing …
Network Infrastructure
The hardware, software and protocols …
Sustainability
IoT applications with and for …
Selected Publications
• D. Tafani, B. Kantarci, H. Mouftah, C. McArdle and L. Barry, "Distributed management of energy-efficient lightpaths for computational grids", 2012 IEEE global communications conference (GLOBECOM), 2012.• P. Meehan, C. McArdle and S. Daniels, "An efficient, scalable time-frequency method for tracking energy usage of domestic appliances using a two-step classification algorithm", Energies, vol. 7, pp. 7041-7066, no. 11, 2014.
• C. McArdle, D. Tafani, T. Curran, A. Holohan and L. Barry, "Renewal model of a buffered optical burst switch", IEEE communications letters, vol. 15, pp. 91-93, no. 1, 2010.
• J. Yang, C. McArdle and S. Daniels, "Similarity ratio analysis for early stage fault detection with optical emission spectrometer in plasma etching process", PloS one, vol. 9, pp. e95679, no. 4, 2014.
• J. Wang, C. McArdle and L. Barry, "Optical packet switch with energy-efficient hybrid optical/electronic buffering for data center and HPC networks", Photonic Network Communications, vol. 32, pp. 89-103, no. 1, 2016.