Curriculum Vitae
Ram Ramanathan
https://sites.google.com/site/ramanathanatbbn
Education
PhD Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, 1993 Dissertation: Scheduling Algorithms for Multi-Hop Radio Networks Advisor: Prof. Errol Lloyd
Awarded the Alan Colburn prize for best dissertation in Engineering and Sciences
M.S Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, 1989
B.Tech Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India,1985
Professional Experience
goTenna Inc., Brooklyn, New York
Chief Scientist 2017-now
Architect, design, analyse and help implement mobile mesh networking and IoT protocols for goTenna devices; lead technology evolution; patent and publish innovations.
Raytheon BBN (formerly BBN Technologies), Cambridge, Massachusetts
Principal Scientist 2005-2017 Division Scientist 2000-2004 Senior Scientist 1996-1999
Scientist 1993-1995
Lead advanced research for the DoD (esp. DARPA); architect, design and help build advanced networked systems; develop and evangelize visions for next generation systems; invent new technologies; acquire significant new business; publish in scholarly venues, and participate in conference/journal organization.
Honors/Awards
• IEEE Fellow, citation “for contributions to mobile ad hoc networks using topology control and directional antennas”
• Promoted to BBN Principal Scientist (equivalent to a Full Professor) “for leadership and ground-breaking contributions to mobile ad hoc networking”
• Best Paper award, “Utilizing Directional Antennas for Ad Hoc Networking” IEEE Milcom conference, 2002
• Best Paper award, “Multicast Tree Generation in Networks with Asymmetric Links” IEEE Infocom conference, San Francisco, 1996
• BBN Science Development Program Outstanding Publication Award, 1997
• BBN Science Development Program Outstanding Publication Award, 1993
• BBN Young Author Publication Award, 1994
• Alan Colburn Prize, Best Dissertation in Engineering and Sciences, University of Delaware, June 1993.
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Best Student Paper award, “Scheduling Algorithms for Multi-hop Radio Networks” ACM SIGCOMM conference, Baltimore, 1992.Teaching/Tutorial
• Adjunct Faculty, Boston University, 1995-1996. Taught undergraduate course “Computer Communication and Networks” (SC 546)
• Presented Tutorial on “Directional Antenna Systems in Ad Hoc Networks”, at the ACM MobiHoc 2003 conference (with M. Takai and N. Vaidya)
Publications/Patents
• 17 journal publications, 51 conference publications, 4 book chapters. Four best paper awards (ACM SIGCOMM, ACM INFOCOM, IEEE MILCOM, IEEE UIC). Six publications as sole author. (Details at the end of CV)
• 9 patents (4 as sole or primary inventor). Several more pending. (Details at end of CV)
• Google Scholar: h-index 41, 12000+ citations
Professional Activities
• Review Panelist, NSF Cross-cutting Initiative in CubeSat Innovations (Idea Lab), April 2019
• Participant, NSF Workshop on achieving ultra-low latencies in wireless networks, Arizona State Univ., Mar 2016
• Co-chair, Program Committee, IEEE MILCOM, 2015, 2107
• Steering Committee, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Jan 2014 – Dec 2016)
• Co-chair, Program Committee, IEEE NetSciCom, 2013
• Associate Editor-in-chief, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Jan 2011 – Dec 2013)
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Jan 2008 – Jan 2010)
• PhD Dissertation committee member for Samuel Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (advisor Robin Kravets), 2011
• PhD Dissertation committee member for Robert McTasney, University of Colorado (advisor Dirk Grunwald), April 2008
• Editorial Board, Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier), 2003 - 2006
• Program committee member for ACM Mobicom (1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009)
• Program committee member for ACM MobiHoc (2000, 2001, 2002)
• Program committee member for IEEE Infocom (2005)
• NSF Proposal Review panel (2003, 2008)
• Tutorial on “Directional Antenna Systems in Ad Hoc Networking”, Mobihoc 2003
• Member, Steering Committee, MobiHoc, 2001
• Co-Guest editor for ACM/Baltzer MONET special issue on Routing in Mobile Networks
• Active in IETF standardization efforts for IDPR and NIMROD between 1994 and 1997
Keynote Speaker
• Keynote, “Scalable Multi-Hop Wireless Networks,” IFIP Wireless Days 2016 conference, Toulouse, France, March 2016
• Keynote, “Making Multihop Wireless Networks Scale”, University of Alberta CS Workshop, November 2009
• Keynote, “Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Story and its Morals”, University of Delaware, Computer Science Day, December 2008
Selected Invited Talks/Panels
• Invited SIGNET talk, “Architecting a Mobile Wireless Mesh Network: Tradeoffs and Protocols”, University of Delaware, April 2019
• Invited Seminar, “Decentralized Wireless Mesh Networking: Tradeoffs and Protocols”, Northeastern University, February 2019
• Invited Seminar Talk, “Zero-control Mesh Networking: Motivation and Challenges”, Georgetown University, November 2018
• Invited Seminar Talk, “Broadcasting in Multi-hop Wireless Networks: Practice and Theory”, Wesleyan University, May 2018
• “A Linkless Architecture for Large-Scale MANETs”, DARPA Far Out Network Symposium, Arlington, VA, August 2013
• Panel talk “Representing and Analyzing Groups in Networks”, Network Science Panel, 26th Annual IEEE Computer Communications Workshop, Sedona, AZ, November 2012
• Invited Talk, “Challenges in Enabling and Exploiting Opportunistic Spectrum Access: An Industry Perspective,” Beyond Cognitive Radio workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, June 2011
• Invited Talk, “Architecting the Next Generation Mesh/Ad Hoc Network”, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 2008
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Invited Speaker, “From INPUT to PARAMETER: The Topology Dichotomy in the Future Wireless Internet”, NSF FIND Mobility Workshop, Cambridge, MA, Sep. 2007• Panel presentation, “Wireless Research: Challenges and Future Directions”, NSF NETS PI Meeting, Chicago, July 2007
• Invited Talk, “Routing in Disruption Tolerant Networks”, Motorola Labs, Chicago, May 2007
• Invited Talk, “Mesh Cognizant Waveform Control”, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, June 2007
• ACM WICON panel presentation, “Wireless Internet Evolution: Trends and Implications”, August 2006
• Invited Talk, “Directional Antennas for Ad Hoc Networks”, Northeastern University, July 2004
Selected Research Grants
• Principal Investigator, AORTA: Adaptive Overlay and Routing Technologies for Airborne Networks, part of the DARPA DyNAMO program, $3.5M, 2016 – 2017
• Prinicipal Investigator for three cross-academia projects on Network Science, two as lead, part of the Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (Army Research Lab), ~$800K, 2015 – 2017
• Co-Principal Investigator, Radar Interference Mitigation for Google Self-Driving Cars, ~150K, June – Sep 2014
• Principal Investigator, SHARE: Scalable Heterogeneous Adaptive Routing for Contested Environments, part of DARPA C2E Program, $1.8M, 2014 - 2016
• Principal Investigator for four cross-academia projects on Network Science, two as lead, part of the Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (Army Research Lab), ~1.5M, 2010-2015
• Principal Investigator: Scalability Study and Communications Plan Assist Toolkit (JTRS Joint Program Office), $710,000
• Principal Investigator for numerous SBIR projects as subcontractor, totalling over $1M in all over past 7 years.
• Key Person1, “Wireless Network after Next”, DARPA, $33M approx. over 3 years (2007-2010)
• Co-Principal Investigator: High-throughput Distributed Spacecraft Networking, NASA, approx. $2M over 2.5 years.
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• Principal Investigator: XG Architectures and Protocols, DARPA, $1.8M, Aug 2002- Feb 2004
• Senior co-Principal Investigator: “Utilizing Directional Antennas for Ad Hoc Networking”, DARPA, $1.9M, Feb 2001- Dec 2003
• Principal Investigator: “Density- and Asymmetry Adaptive Wireless Network”, DARPA, $1.4M, Oct 1997- April 2001
Publications – Journal
J1. S. Rager, E. Ciftcioglu, R. Ramanathan, T. LaPorta, R. Govindan, "Scalability and Satisfiability of Quality-of-Information in Wireless Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Volume 26, Issue 1, Feb. 2018
J2. E. Ciftcioglu, R. Ramanathan, P. Basu "Generative Models for Global
Collaboration Relationships", Nature Scientific Reports, 7, Article number 11160 (2017)
J3. R. Ramanathan, E. Ciftcioglu, A. Samanta, R. Urgaonkar, T. La Porta, “Symptotics: a framework for estimating the scalability of real-world wireless networks,” Wireless Networks (Springer), 23 (4), May 2017, pp 1062-1083 J4. M. P. Johnson; B. Phelan; A. Bar-Noy; P. Basu; R. Ramanathan, "Minimum-cost
Network-wide Broadcast over Reliable MAC-Layer Multicast," in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 16, Issue 12, Dec.2017
J5. J. Gao, Q. Zhao, W. Ren, A. Swami, R. Ramanathan and A. Bar-Noy, "Dynamic Shortest Path Algorithms for Hypergraphs," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 1805-1817, Dec. 2015
J6. W. Ren, Q. Zhao, R. Ramanathan, J. Gao, A. Swami, A. Bar-Noy, M. Johnson, P. Basu, “Broadcasting in multi-radio multi-channel wireless networks using simplicial complexes,” Wireless Networks (Springer), published online 27 November 2012.
J7. J. Redi, S. Kolek, K. Manning, Craig Partridge, R. Rosales-Hain, R.
Ramanathan, I. Castineyra: JAVeLEN - An ultra-low energy ad hoc wireless network. Ad Hoc Networks 6(1): 108-126 (2008)
J8. J.B.D. Cabrera, R. Ramanathan, C. Gutierrez, R. Mehra, “Stable Topology Control for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 11, No. 7, July 2007, pp. 574-576.
J9. R.R. Choudhury, X. Yang, R. Ramanathan, N.H.Vaidya, “On Designing MAC Protocols for Wireless Networks using Directional Antennas,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 5, No.5, May 2006, pp. 477-491.
J10. R. Ramanathan, J. Redi, C. Santivanez, D. Wiggins, S. Polit, “Ad Hoc Networking with Directional Antennas: A Complete System Solution,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 23, No. 3, Mar. 2005, pp. 496-506.
J11. E.L. Lloyd, R. Liu, M. Marathe, R. Ramanathan, S.S. Ravi, “Algorithmic Aspects of Topology Control Problems for Ad Hoc Networks,” Mobile Networks and Applicatons (MONET), Volume 10, Nos. 1-2, pp. 19-34.
J13. S. Ramanathan and M. Steenstrup, “Hierarchically-organized, multihop mobile wireless networks for multimedia support, ACM/Baltzer MONET, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 101-119.
J14. S. Ramanathan, “Multicast tree generation in networks with asymmetric links,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 4, No. 4, Aug 1996, pp. 558-567 J15. S. Ramanathan and M. Steenstrup, “A Survey of Routing Techniques for Mobile
Networks”, ACM Baltzer Mobile Networks and Applications (special Issue on Routing in Mobile Networks), Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 89-103.
J16.
S. Ramanathan and E.L. Lloyd, “Scheduling Algorithms for Multihop Radio Networks”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 1993.J17.
E.L. Lloyd and S. Ramanathan, “Efficient Distributed Algorithms for ChannelAssignment in Multihop Radio Networks”, Journal of High Speed Networks, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1993.
Publications – Refereed International Conferences
C1. A. Dusia, R. Ramanathan, C. Servaes, W. Ramanathan, A. Sethi, “VINE: Zero-control-packet Routing for Ultra-Low-Capacity MANETs”, Proc. IEEE MILCOM, November 2019
C2. R. Ramanathan, C. Servaes, W. Ramanathan "ECHO: Efficient Zero-Control Network-Wide Broadcasting for Mobile Multi-Hop Wireless Networks," Proc. IEEE MILCOM, October 2018
C3. V. Manfredi, W. Tetteh, R. Ramanathan, R. Hain, D. Ryder, "SHARE: Scalable Hybrid Adaptive Routing for Dynamic Environments,", Proc. IEEE Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), 2017. (Received Best Industry Paper award).
C4. A. Assarpour, S. Farhat, O. Liu, A. Nikolaev, A. Bar-Noy, P. Basu, S.
Mneimneh, R. Ramanathan "Measuring the Strength of Teams: Metrics and Properties,” Proc. IEEE NetSciComm, April 2015
C5. S. Pal, Y. Dong, B. Thapa, N. V. Chawla, A. Swami and R. Ramanathan, "Deep learning for network analysis: Problems, approaches and challenges," Proc. IEEE MILCOM 2016
C6. J. Khoury, R. Ramanathan, D. McCloskey, R. Smith, T. Campbell, “RadarMAC: Mitigating Radar Interference in Self-Driviing Cars,” Proc. IEEE SECON, 2016. C7. M. Hoang, R. Ramanathan, A. Singh, “Structure and Evolution of Missed
Collaborations in Large Networks,” Proc. IEEE NetSciCom, Toronto, Canada, May 2014
C8. F. Yu, R. A. Bar-Noy, P. Basu, R. Ramanathan, “Algorithms for Channel Assignment in Wireless Networks using Temporal Coloring,” Proc. ACM MSWIM, Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 2013
C9. S. Dabideen, R. Ramanathan, “FansyRoute: Adaptive Fan-Out for Variably Intermittent Challenged Networks,” Proc. ACM Mobicom Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), Miami, Oct. 2013
C11. M. Hoang, R. Ramanathan, T. Moore, A. Swami, “Structural and Collaborative Properties of Team Science Networks,” Proc. 4th International Workshop on Business Applications of Social Network Analysis, Niagara Falls, Canada, 2013 C12. R. Urgaonkar, R. Ramanathan, J. Redi, and W. N. Tetteh, "Channel Assignment
in Dense MC-MR Wireless Networks: Scaling Laws and Algorithms," Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, Turin, Italy, April 2013
C13. G. Jakllari, M. Neufeld, R. Ramanathan, “A Framework for Frameless TDMA using Slot Chains,” Proc. IEEE MASS, Las Vegas, Oct. 2012.
C14. R. Ramanathan, A. Samanta, T. La Porta, “Symptotics: A Framework for Analyzing Real-World Wireless Networks,” Proc. ACM PE-WASUN, Cyprus, Oct. 2012.
C15. T.J. Moore, R. J. Drost, P. Basu, R. Ramanathan, A. Swami, “Analyzing collaboration networks using simplicial complexes: A case study”, Proc. IEEE NetSciCom, Orlando, 2012, 238-243
C16. J. Gao, Q. Zhao, W. Ren, A. Swami, R. Ramanathan, A. Bar-Noy: Dynamic shortest path algorithms for hypergraphs. Proc. WiOpt 2012:238-245 C17. J. Redi, R. Ramanathan, “The WNaN Network Architecture,” Proc. IEEE
Milcom, Baltimore, November 2011
C18. A. Bar-Noy, P. Basu, M. Johnson, and R. Ramanathan, "Minimum-cost Broadcast through Varying-size Neighborcast", in ALGOSENSORS 2011, Saarbrucken, Germany, September 2011.
C19. B. Khanna, R. Ramanathan, “Interference-aware Multipath Routing in MANETs”, Proc. IEEE Milcom, Baltimore, November 2011
C20. W. Ren, Q. Zhao, R. Ramanathan, J. Gao, A. Swami, A. Bar-Noy, M. Johnson, P. Basu, “Broadcasting in Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Networks using Simplicial Complexes," Proc. IEEE MASS, Valencia, Spain, October 2011. C21. A. Bar-Noy, P. Basu, M. Johnson, and R. Ramanathan, "Minimum-cost
Broadcast through Varying-size Neighborcast", in ALGOSENSORS 2011, Saarbrucken, Germany, September 2011.
C22. R. Ramanathan, A. Bar-Noy, P. Basu, M. Johnson, W. Ren, A. Swami, Q. Zhao, “Beyond Graphs: Capturing Groups in Networks,” Proc. IEEE NetSciComm, Shanghai, April 2011
C23. Ramanathan, R.; Allan, R.; Basu, P.; Feinberg, J.; Jakllari, G.; Kawadia, V.; Loos, S.; Redi, J.; Santivanez, C.; Freebersyser, J., "Scalability of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Theory vs practice," IEEE MILCOM 2010 , Oct. 31 2010-Nov. 3 2010
C24. G. Jakllari, R. Ramanathan “A Sync-less Time Divided MAC protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, Proc. Of IEEE Military Communications Conference
(MILCOM), Boston, MA, October 2009.
C25. R. Ramanathan, F. Tchakountiou, “Channel Access over Path Segments for Ultra-low-latency MANETs,” Proc. of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Orlando, FL, October 2007.
C26. R. Ramanathan, P. Basu, R. Krishnan, “Towards a Formalism for Routing in Challenged Networks,” Proceedings of CHANTS 2007, Montreal, 2007. C27. R. Ramanathan, R. Hansen, P. Basu, R. Hain, R. Krishnan, “Prioritized
C28. C. Santivanez, R. Ramanathan, C. Partridge, R. Krishnan, M. Condell, and S. Polit, “Opportunistic Spectrum Access: Challenges, Architecture, Protocols,” Proceedings of ACM WICON 2006, Boston, MA, 2006.
C29. J. Redi, W. Watson, R. Ramanathan, P. Basu, F. Tchakountio, M. Girone, and M. Steenstrup, “Design and Implementation of a MIMO MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networking,” Proceedings of The SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando, FL, April 2006.
C30. R. Ramanathan, “Challenges: A Radically New Architecture for Next Generation Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, Proc. ACM MOBICOM 2005, Cologne, Germany, August 2005.
C31. M. Ozdemir, A. Bruce McDonald, R. Ramanathan, “Asynchronous Reservation Oriented Multiple Access for Wireless Networks (AROMA),” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing (WirelessCom 2005), Maui, Hawaii, June 2005 (also patented – see item #2 in patent list)
C32. F. Tchakountiou, R. Ramanathan, “Anticipatory Routing for Highly Mobile Endpoints,” Proc. Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA) 2004, English Lake District, UK, Dec. 2004,
C33. R. Ramanathan, J. Redi, C. Santivanez, D. Wiggins, S. Polit, “Ad Hoc
Networking with Directional Antennas: A Complete System Solution,” Proc. of IEEE WCNC 2004, Atlanta, GA, March 2004.
C34. J. Redi, R. Ramanathan, “Utilizing Directional Antennas for Ad Hoc Networking”, Proc. IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Anaheim, CA, October 2002 (Received Best Classified Paper award).
C35. E.L. Lloyd, R. Liu, M.V. Marathe, R. Ramanathan, S.S. Ravi, “Algorithmic Aspects of Topology Control Problems for Ad Hoc Networks,” Proc. of ACM MOBIHOC 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2002.
C36. C. Santivanez, B. McDonald, I. Stavrakakis, R. Ramanathan, “On the Scalability of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols,” Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2002, New York, NY, June 2002.
C37. J. Sterbenz, R. Krishnan, R. Rosales-Hain, A. Jackson, D. Levin, R.
Ramanathan, J. Zao, “Survivable mobile wireless networks: issues, challenges and research directions,” Proc. 3rd ACM workshop on Wireless Security (WiSE), Atlanta, GA, Sep. 2002.
C38. R. Ramanathan, “On the performance of ad hoc networks using beamforming antennas,” Proc. ACM MOBIHOC 2001, Long Beach, CA, 2001.
C39. C. Santivanez, R. Ramanathan, “Making Link State Routing Scale”, Proc. ACM MOBIHOC 2001, Long Beach, CA, 2001.
C40. R. Ramanathan, “Making Ad Hoc Networks Density Adaptive,” Proc. IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Tysons Corner, VA, October 2001.
C41. F. Tchakountio, R. Ramanathan, “Tracking Highly Mobile Endpoints,”
Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM), July 2001, Rome, Italy.
C43. S. Ramanathan, R. Hain, “Topology Control in Multihop Wireless Networks using Transmit Power Adjustment”, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM ’00, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2000. (Has received 1800+ citations)
C44. R. Krishnan, R. Ramanathan, M. Steenstrup, “Optimization Algorithms for Large Self-Structuring Networks”, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM ’99, New York, 1999.
C45. S. Ramanathan, “A Unified Algorithm for (T/F/C)DMA Channel Assignment in Wireless Networks”, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM ‘97, Kobe, Japan, 1997.
C46. K. Kasera, S. Ramanathan, “A Location Management Protocol for Hierarchically Organized Multihop Wireless Networks”, Proc. of the International Conference on Universal Personal Communications (ICUPC) (now WCNC), San Diego, 1997.
C47. S. Ramanathan, “An Algorithm for Multicast Tree Generation in Networks with Asymmetric Links”, Proc. IEEE INFOCOM ‘96, San Fransisco, March 1996, 337-344. (Received Best Paper award).
C48. S. Ramanathan and E.L. Lloyd, “Scheduling Algorithms for Multihop Radio Networks”, Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 1992, Baltimore, August 1992, pp. 211-222.
(Received Best Student Paper award).
C49. E. L. Lloyd and S. Ramanathan, “On the Complexity of Distance-2 Coloring with Applications to Radio Networks”, in Proc. 4th Internat-ional Conference on Computing and Information, Toronto, May 1992.
C50. E. L. Lloyd and S. Ramanathan, “On the Complexity of Link Scheduling in Multi-hop Radio Networks”, in Proc. 26th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Mar. 1992, 491-495.
C51. S. Ramanathan and M. Paterakis, “A Cellular Approach to Packet Radio Network Design”, Proc. 25th Conference on Information Sciences and System, Johns Hopkins University, May 1991, 755-759.
C52. S. Ramanathan and A. S. Sethi, “Load Balancing over Multiple Trunk Lines”, Proc. 10th International Conference on Computer Communications, New Delhi, Nov. 1990, 456-564.
Book Chapters
B1. R. Ramanathan, "Antenna Beamforming and Power Control for Ad Hoc Networks," in Mobile Ad Hoc Networking, S. Basagni et al. (eds.), IEEE Press/Wiley, pp. 139-173, 2004.
B2. C. Santivanez and R. Ramanathan, “Scalability of Routing in Ad Hoc Networks: Principles and Practice,” in Ad Hoc Wireless Networking, X. Cheng, X. Huang, and D. Du (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 561-621, 2004.
B3. S. O. Krumke, R. Liu, E.L. Lloyd, M. Marathe, R. Ramanathan, S.S. Ravi, “Topology Control Problems under Symmetric and Asymmetric Power
Thresholds,” in Ad Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, LNCS, Vol. 2865/2003, pp. 187-198
Magazine Articles
R. Ramanathan, J. Redi, “A Brief Overview of Ad Hoc Networks: Challenges and Directions,” IEEE Communications Magazine, 50th Anniversary Commemorative Issue, May 2002.
Selected Patents
1. Self-organizing Mobile Wireless Station Network, Patent number 5,850,592, awarded December 15, 1998. Co-inventors: None.
2. Method and Apparatus for Asynchronous Reservation-Oriented Multiple Access (AROMA), Patent number 6,577,613, awarded June 2003. Co-inventors: None.
3. A node belonging to multiple clusters in an ad hoc wireless network, Patent number 6,711,409, awarded March 2004. Co-inventors: J. Zavgren, J. Weinstein, I. Castineyra, C. Elliott, B. Passman
4. Optimizing solutions using local virtual forces. US 20070022061, awarded January 2007. Co-inventors: M. Brinn, A. Helsinger
5. Directional Carrier Sense Medium Access for Wireless Nodes, U.S. Patent No. 7,321,580, awarded January 22, 2008. Co-inventors: Cesar Santivanez
6. Systems and methods for adaptive routing in mobile ad-hoc networks and
disruption tolerant networks. BBN Technologies May 2009: US 20090129316, co-inventors: P. Basu, R. Hansen, C. Jones, R. Krishnan, R. Hain
7. No-sight routing for ad-hoc networks, US 20100322240, December 2010, co-inventors: G. Troxel, S. Polit
8. Ultra-low latency packet transport in ad hoc networks. Raytheon BBN
Technologies, US 8027289, awarded September 2011, co-inventors: B. Elliott, M. Bergamo
9. Distributed Assignment of Frequency Channels to Transceivers over Dynamic Spectrum US 9,148,885, awarded September 2015, co-inventors: G. Jakllari, J. Redi, D. Coffin, W. Tetteh, J. Burgess, R. Irwin
