The first ever programming challenge at NCSU on unmanned aerial computing platforms culminated in a day-long final challenge in which the finalist teams took turns running their programs on CentMesh drones to see if they code would – ahem – fly. The six-month long programming challenge was hosted and made possible by the CentMesh research and teaching facility we have built over the last few years.
Can (“Jon”) successfully defended his doctoral thesis in April, 2014. His primary work has been in Verification Service Architecture, an aspect of the ChoiceNet project, which provides a framework and prototype for third-party verification services in the future Internet, as well as study of some potential innovative such services. He goes on to a research job with Riverbed Software, in Sunnyvale, CA.
Trisha successfully defended her doctoral thesis in April, 2014. Her primary work has been in Petal Routing, which uses several different types of geo-diverse or diffuse multipaths to provide network-layer redundancy in the face of jamming, and most recently, in a linear system modeling of these and other similar wireless multihop routing systems. She goes on to a research job with Aruba Networks, in Sunnyvale, CA.
“Designing for Network and Service Continuity in Wireless Mesh Networks”, co-authored by former student Parth H. Pathak and Dr. Dutta, published by Springer, just came out. The book focuses on performance predictability of the wireless mesh network paradigm, and considerations in designing networks from the perspective of survivability and service continuity metrics.
ACM covered ChoiceNet in the August 13, 2012 issue of ACM TechNews, referring to the SIGCOMM short paper.
The CentMesh deployment continues – all antennas and housings are up, as are all production testbed nodes; experimental nodes are going up one by one, two new locations on Oval Drive.
Recently Dr. Dutta was invited to deliver a talk by SAS Institute in their “BIRD’s Eye View” seminar series – mainly on the future Internet architecture topic but also about his research in general.
Parth defended his thesis on July 9, 2012, with flying colors. During his stay here, Parth has worked on various aspects of wireless networking, published 8 papers, including a remarkably comprehensive survey on wireless mesh networks. Most recently, his work focused on survivability and continuity issues in wireless mesh networks – he and I have jointly authored a book on the subject which is currently in press. He is moving on to a post-doctoral fellow position at UC Davis with Dr. Prasant Mohapatra. All the best, Parth!
Our three-year Integrated Measurement Framework project is drawing to a close. In the last several GENI Engineering Conferences we have successfully demonstrated IMF functionality; at the recently concluded GEC14 (July 9 – 11, 2012) in Boston we effectively demonstrated completed IMF functionality. The demo session was held in the Stata Center of MIT, which was hosting GEC14.
Sankalp Nimbhorkar defended his MS thesis early in 2012, but his thesis work, jointly with some work by Parth Pathak, was published as a paper at ACM Mobihoc 2012 (June 11 – 14, 2012, Hilton Head, SC) on variable width channel allocation for wireless networks, using back-pressure approach at the physical layer. Thanks to Sankalp for following up with the effort to publish, and to Parth for extensive help.