Research

I am a graduate student currently pursuing my PhD. My dissertation involves providing a scalable, robust and efficient service architecture for large-scale service and application deployment in ubiquitous environments. Even though active research has been going on in the field of infrastructureless networks, it still lags behind traditional infrastructured networks when it comes to commercial applications. This is mostly due to the lack of an efficient and scalable architecture to support the basic functionalities necessary to enable a computing model. To enable the widespread commercial deployment of such networks, a service architecture needs to be developed that supports the basic functionalities necessary for node interaction without compromising on the convenience offered. The basic tenet of my work is that service discovery is a key enabling technology to support interactions among heterogeneous devices in ubiquitous environments. The objective of this research is to build a robust, scalable and efficient framework for service and application deployment in ubiquitous environments.

My research interests include pervasive and ubiquitous computing, mobile ad-hoc networks and sensor networks, and peer-to-peer networks.

I am part of the Network Research Lab at the Department of Computer Science. I was involved in a project called CARWANs (along with Sanjeev Dwivedi), as part of my Masters Thesis. In this work, we implemented the -cluster protocol on Linux and tested it on Laptops. This work has also been ported to work with PDAs. This was done in conjunction with Jeff Leitman.

You can find more information about my work and my papers in the Publications section.