Objective

Seeking an internship position involving research and development in Networking, Protocol design and implementation, and Multimedia applications.

Education

• Doctorate in Computer Science, Advisor : Dr. Guru Parulkar, Summer 2003 (Expected), Washington University, St.Louis, MO
• Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, Summer 1998, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.

Research

Research Interests

My current research interests are in the areas of real-time protocol design, routing, network management, active networks, Integrated and Differentiated Services and Internet QoS issues.

Publications

1. "Deterministic Protocols for Real-time Communication in Multiple Access Networks" to appear in the journal of Computer Communications.
2. "Deterministic Best Effort and Dynamic Planning based protocols for real-time communication in multi-access networks". 6th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems, International Parallel Processing symposium, Orlando, Florida, April 1998.
3. "New protocols for hard real-time communication in the switched LAN". 23rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Boston, October 1998.
4. "A new formal specification technique for real-time protocols". Submitted to journal of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems.
5. "New protocols for hard real-time communication in the LAN and switched LAN environments". To be submitted to the journal of Real-time Systems.

System Development Projects

• Network Management, Visualization and Control : Started July 1998
• Developed a generic protocol simulator for real-time communication in Local Area Networks. Performed simulation of several real-time LAN protocols such as Virtual time CSMA, Window MAC, Preemption based CSMA .
• Developed a real-time simulation test-bed for the Switched LAN.
• Developed a Java-based Levelled Committment Contract Optimizer for an E-commerce server.

Software/OS Skills

• Languages : C, C++, Javascript, CGI, Java, VHDL.
• Operating Systems : NetBSD, UNIX, Windows 95/NT, Linux.

References

1. Dr. Guru Parulkar, Department of Computer Science, Washington University, St.Louis, MO 63130.
2. Dr. C. Siva Ram Murthy, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
3. Dr. S. V. Raghavan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.