Dr. Dutta delivered an invited talk in Summer, 2014, at the Advanced Computing and Microelectronics Unit at the world-famous Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. The talk was on the evolution of Internet architecture, with special reference to network-neutrality issues, and the emergence of the service-oriented Internet. The talk was on the kind invitation of Dr. Bhabani P Sinha, head of the ACMU.
for successfully defending his M.S. thesis! Kasyap not only did very challenging work for his MS thesis, but also was one of the two students who between them enabled the entire CentMesh Drones Challenge 2014. He is moving on to employment at Citrix, and has a bright career ahead of him.
ChoiceNet is the name of an architectural vision to support choice as the central aspect of the Internet architecture. funded by a large multi-university FIA grant from NSF. A recent ACM Computer Communications Review paper reviews the overall architecture and visions of ChoiceNet.
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.