STUDENTS

VISITING SCHOLARS

DISSERTATIONS

• Doctoral
• Masters
• Undergraduate

THESIS COMMITTEES

EXTERNAL EXAMINER

DOCTORAL THESIS DISSERTATIONS

University of Cincinnati

1. Yun Wang, “Application-Specific Quality of Service Constraint Design in Wireless Sensor Networks,” University of Cincinnati, August 14, 2008.

2. Yi Cheng, “Security Mechanisms for Mobile Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks,” University of Cincinnati, May 27, 2008.

3. Lakshmi Santhanam, “Integrated Security Infrastructure for Wireless Mesh Networks,” University of Cincinnati, February 11, 2008.

4. Haitang Wang, “Efficient Bandwidth Management to Quality-of-Service in Broadband Wireless Access Networks,” University of Cincinnati, November 16, 2007.

5. Torsha Banerjee, “Energy Efficient Data Representation and Aggregation with Event Region Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks,” University of Cincinnati, November 16, 2007.

6. Nagesh S. Nandiraju, “A Cross Layer Approach for Achieving Fairness in Multihop Wireless Mesh Networks,” University of Cincinnati, Awarded BEST DOCTORAL THESIS AWARD of the year 2006-2007 in the department of Computer Science, May 21, 2007.

7. Vivek Jain, “On-demand Medium Access in Heterogeneous Multihop Wireless Networks,” University of Cincinnati, April 24, 2007.

8. Anurag Gupta, “On Integrated Architecture for Multi-hop Wireless Networks,” University of Cincinnati, March 9, 2007.

9. Ratnabali Biswas, “Query Processing and Link Layer QoS Provising Mechanisms for Wireless Sensor Networks,” University of Cincinnati, November 8, 2006.

10. Tarun Joshi, “Cross Layer Optimizations for Performance Enhancements of Wireless Networks,” University of Cincinnati, September 25, 2006.

11. Anindo Mukherjee, “An Integrated Architecture for Multi-hop Infrastructure Wireless Networks,” June 16, 2006.

12. Qihe Wang, “Scheduling and Simulation of Large Scale Wireless Personal Area Networks,” May 15, 2006.

13. Xiaodong Wang, “Quality of Srvice Issues and QoS Constrained Design of Wireless Sensor Networks,”  Feb. 23, 2006, Awarded BEST DOCTORAL THESIS AWARD of the year 2005-2006 in the department.

14. Dave A. T. Cavalcanti, “Integrated Architecture and Routing Protocols for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks,” Jan. 27, 2006.

15. Jun Yin, “Modeling and Optimization of Wireless Local Area Networks MAC protocols,” July 13, 2005.

16. Wei Li, “Resource Allocation in Integrated Wireless and Mobile Networks,” May 11, 2005.

17. Qi Zhang, “Efficient Broadcasting in Mobile Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks,” Feb. 28, 2005.

18. Hrishikesh Gossain, “Power Control and Spatial Reusability in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks,” Feb. 3, 2005, Awarded BEST DOCTORAL THESIS AWARD of the year 2004-2005 in the department.

19. Nitin Auluck, “Real-time Scheduling Algorithms for Precedence related tasks on Heterogeneous Multiprocessors,” Aug. 3, 2004.

20. Dhananjay Lal, Performance Enhancements in Wireless LANs and Ad Hoc Networks with Multiple-beam smart Antennas,” July 20, 2004.

21. Yunli Chen, “Performance Analysis and Enhancement of MAC Protocol for IEEE 802.11 WLANs,” June 17, 2004.

22. Hang Chen, “Resource Management Schemes in Mobile and Wireless Networks,” June 17, 2004.

23. Hongmei Deng, “An Integrated Security Scheme with Resource-Awareness for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” June 17, 2004.

24. Neha Jain, “Energy Aware and Adaptive Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks,” May 26, 2004.

25. Carlos de Morais Cordeiro, “Medium Access Control Protocols and Routing Strategies for Wireless Local and Personal Area Networks,” Dec. 2, 2003, Awarded BEST DOCTORAL THESIS AWARD of the year 2003-2004 in the department.

North Carolina State University

1. Anurag Bhargava, “Optimizing QoS for Self-Similar traffic for Communication Networks,” May 2000.

2. Deepankar Bairagi, “Enhancing Code Quality through Selective Register Promotion and Demotion,” May 2000.

3. Eric A. Schweitz, “Extracting Task-Level Parallelism from a Sequential Programs and Coarse-Grain Parallelism from Irregular Loops,” March 2000.

4. Sandeep Kumar, “Specification and Detection of Parallelism in Object-Oriented Programs,” July 1996.

5. Yashovardhan R. Potlapalli, “Enhancement Strategies for Multistage Interconnection Networks,” May 1996.

6. Sanjeev D. Rampal, “Routing and end-to-end Quality of service in Multimedia Networks,” Aug. 1995.

7. Hyunmin Park, “Efficient Routing and Switching Scheme for Hierarchical and large scalable Networks,” Aug. 1995.

8. Sekhar Darbha, “Task Scheduling Algorithms for Distributed Memory Machines,” July 1995.

9. Sanjeev Kumar, “On Shared-Memory based Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Switching Algorithms and Architectures for Broadband Communications,” April 1995.

10. Teresa Dahlberg, “Dependability Evaluation of large Systems with dependent Failures using a Hierarchical Model,” Sept. 1993.

11. Santosh S. Pande, “A Compiler for Scheduling Functional Parallelism on Distributed Memory Systems,” Aug. 1993.

12. Omar H. Karam, “Design and Analysis of Generalized Hierarchical Interconnection Networks for Multicomputer Systems,” July 1993.

13. Chienhua Chen, “Design and Analysis of a Class of de Bruijn Graph based Hierarchical Networks,” May 1993.

14. Martin D. Meyer, “Parallel Algorithms and Architectures for Adaptive Filters,” April 1992.

15. Nita Kini Sharma, “Reliability Considerations in Hierarchical Distributed Systems,” March 1992.

16. James Michael Conrad, “Parallel Arc Consistency Algorithms for Pre-processing Constraint Satisfaction Problems,” March 1992.

17. Shridhar B. Shukla, “On Parallel Processing for Real-time Artificial Vision,” Nov. 1990.

18. T. Y. Chung, “Design and Analysis of Manhattan Street Class of Doubly Linked Networks,” Dec. 1989.

19. Anup Kumar, “On Evaluation of Reliability and Integrated Performance - Reliability Parameters for Distributed Systems,” Aug. 1989.

20. Sukil Kim, “The Implementation of a Parallelizing Compiler for loosely-coupled Multiprocessor Systems,” July 1989.

21. V. K. Janakiram, “Randomized Parallel Algorithms for Backtracking and Branch and Bound Problems,” April, 1988.

22. J. S. Leu, “Strategies for Retargeting of Existing Sequential Programs for Parallel Processing,” July 1987.

23. S. Al-Arian, “Modeling and Testing of CMOS Circuits,” Dec. 1985.

24. G. K. Pathak, “Towards Automated Design of Multicomputer System for Real-time Applications,” July 1984.

Wayne State University

1. B. K. Agrawal, “Graceful Fault Tolerance in Large Networks of Microcomputers,” June 1984.

2. H. A. El-Halabi, “Microinstructions as the Image Architecture in a Multilanguage Environment,” May 1983.

3. L. Bhuyan, “Interconnection Networks for Parallel and Distributed Processing,” July 1982.

4. Sung-Chun Kim, “Graph Theoretic Approach to Multistage Interconnection Networks,” July 1982.

5. M. A. Lassner, “Graph Embedding Algorithms and Their Applications,” July 1981.

6. M. A. Abidi, “Parallel Processing: The Interconnection Problem,” May 1980.

MASTERS THESIS DISSERTATIONS

University of Cincinnati

1. Sumon Banerjee, “Saptial and Temporal Correlation and Extracting Critical Attribute oin a Three Dimensional Wireless Sensor Network,” May 30, 2008.

2. Premkumar Krishnan, “Performing Data Aggregation on Wireless Sensor Motes,” Feb. 7, 2008.

3. Disha Ahuja, “Cross Layer Optimizations for Performance Enhancement in Wireless Networks,” January 23, 2007.

4. Damanjit Singh, “Cross Layer Techniques to Enhance Link Performance in Wireless Networks,” M.S. Thesis, November 13, 2007.

5. Karthika Paladugu, DCLAD: Distributed Cluster Based Localization Anomaly Wireless Sensor Networks using Single Mobile Beacon, M.S. Thesis, October 18, 2007.

6. Anurag Sharma, “Exploiting Spatial Correlation using Tree Based Polynomial Regression in a three dimensional Wireless Sensor Network,” M.S. Thesis, March 26, 2007.

7. Abhishek Jain, “Non-Uniform Probabilistic key Management Schemes for Secure Data Acquisition in Wireless Sensor Networks,” July 14, 2006.

8. Ananya Gupta, “Decentralized Key Generation Scheme for Cellular-based Heterogeneous Wireless Ad hoc Networks,” July 14, 2006.

9. Kaushik Roy Chowdhury, “Multi-channel Medium Access Protocols for Wireless Networks,” March 14, 2006, Awarded BEST MASTERS THESIS AWARD of the year 2005-2006 in the department.

10. Aditya Gupta, “Application-Specific Organization of Sensor Networks,” April 21, 2005.

11. Sandhya Sekhar , “A distance based sleep schedule algorithm for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks,” April 21, 2005.

12. Kumar Anand, “A Scalable Explicit Multicast Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” Oct. 29, 2004.

13. Sasidhar Vogety, “Novel Protocols to Improve Broadcasting Efficiency over Switched Beam Antenna in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network,” Oct. 22, 2004.

14. Meetu Gupta, “Minimization of Re-Keying Overhead for a Secure and Scalable Multicast Framework,” Aug. 17, 2004.

15. Vivek Shah, “Parallel Cluster Formation for Secured Communication in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” July 15, 2004.

16. Shruti Chugh, “An Energy Efficient Collaborative Framework for Event Notification and Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Feb. 23, 2004.

17. Abinash Mahapatra, “QoS and Energy aware Routing for Real Time Traffic in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Nov. 25, 2003.

18. Sagar Dharia, “A Resource-aware Distributed Bluetooth Scatternet Formation Algorithm and its application to Wireless Sensor Networks,” Nov. 20, 2003.

19. Roy Lawrence Ashok Inigo, “A Comprehensive Framework for Energy Efficient Bridge Management in Bluetooth Scatternets,” Oct. 13, 2003.

20. Ramnath Duggirala, “Efficient Bridge Negotiation and management for Bluetooth-based Personal Area Networks,” Sept. 17, 2003.

21. Dilip Kutty Madathil, “A Multipath Routing Framework for uniform resource utilization with service differentiation in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Sept. 11, 2003.

22. Rajani Poorsarla, “Authenticated Route Formation and efficient key management schemes for securing Ad Hoc Networks,” Aug. 2003.

23. Sachin Abhyankar, “Traffic Engineering over Bluetooth-based Wireless Ad HocNetworks,” May 2003, Awarded BEST MASTER’s THESIS AWARD of the year 2003-2004 in the department.

24. Rahul Gupta, “A TCP Analysis: Impact of receiver perceived information on the performance of TCP over Ad Hoc Networks,” Nov. 2002.

25. Rishi Toshniwal, “Dynamic Configuration and Load balancing in Bluetooth Personal Area Networks,” Nov. 8, 2002.

26. Siddesh Kamat, “Handling Source Movement over Mobile-IP and Reducing the control overhead for a secure, scalable Multicast Framework," Oct. 2002.

27. Hrishikesh Gossain, “A Novel Scheme to Provide Multicast over Mobile-IP” March 2002.

28. Sonali Bhargav, “Generic and Scalable Security Schemes for Ad Hoc Networks,” March 2002.

29. Rashmi Bajaj, “Efficient Task Scheduling Algorithm for Network of Workstations,” Sept. 20, 2001.

30. Arati Manjeshwar, "Energy Efficient Routing Protocols with Comprehensive Information Retrieval for Wireless Sensor Networks,” May 2001.

31. Jingao Wang, "Performance Analysis of Hybrid Reservation Handoff Scheme for Integrated Wireless Mobile Network,” March 2001.

32. Ramnath Duggirala, “A Novel Route Maintenance Technique for Ad Hoc Routing Protocols,” Dec. 2000.

33. Ravikiran Kakaraparthi, “On Packet Scheduling Strategies for Ad Hoc Networks,” Dec. 2000.

34. Lakshmi Venkataraman, “Secured Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks,” Dec. 2000.

35. Samantha Lalinda Ranaweera, “Task Scheduling Algorithms for Heterogeneous Systems,” May 2000.

North Carolina State University

1. V. Ramakrishnan, “Algorithms and Architectures for Computer Vision,”  Dec. 1991.

2. A. Dholakia, “Optimal Problem Decomposition in Parallel Execution of Divide-and-Conquer Algorithms,” Feb. 1988.

3. J. R. Burke, “Single Stage Interconnection Networks and the Impact of Multiple Fault on Performance,”  April 1986.

UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS AT UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

1. Brittany Murrison, on project entitled, “A Human Interface for a Data Aggregation System in Wireless Sensor Network,” Research Experience for Women (REWU), Summer 2004.

2. Christopher (Mack) Swenson, Nick Scavelli, and Ed Paff, Monitoring Environment using a Sensor Network.

3. Robert Hampshire et al, “Grocery Shopping using Wireless Cell Phones,” Undergraduate Senior Design Project in Computer Engineering, May 2001.

4. Brian Morgan, Chris Miller, and Ed Hoffer, “Intrusion Detection on IP Based Wireless Networks,” Undergraduate Senior Design Project in Computer Engineering, May 2002.