Network Software Engineer, Intel, Hillsboro, OR (Summer 05) 

I worked as a Network Software Engineer with the Communications Technology Labs at the Intel facility in Hillsboro, OR during the summer of 2005. As a part of the Wireless Networking Lab, my primary responsibilities were setting up a small scale replica of the ORBIT wireless testbed to facilitate in-house wireless experimentation and prototyping efforts. The main accomplishments were

  • Successful deployment of a 9-node experimental wireless testbed including RF attenuators for PHY link quality emulation and services to facilitate repeated experimentation.
  • Evaluation of fast roaming protocols in WLAN networks on the testbed.
  • Evaluation of cross layer routing metric for high throughput paths in multihop wireless mesh networks

Research Scientist, Avaya Research Labs, Basking Ridge, NJ (Summer 03) 

During the summer of 2003, I worked as a Research Scientist at the Avaya Research Labs, Basking Ridge NJ. The project was related to infrastructure based location estimation techniques for indoor wireless networks. My primary responsibilities included

  • Design and implementation of an infrastructure based wireless monitoring and location estimation system
  • Prototype of a wireless sniffer on embedded SB platform (Soekris based) running Linux using Libpcap and device driver customizations
  • Using the infrastructure based location estimation engine for detecting security vulnerabilities in WLAN deployments

The work resulted in three publications as well as one patent filing 

Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications, Clarskburg, MD (2000-2001)

After my M.S in Electrical Engineering at Virginia Tech, I joined COMSAT Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff which later merged with Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications. My main responsibilities were the design of a resource planning tool for a ATM-based geosynchronous satellite system using the OPNET modeler. I was primarily responsible for the following

  • Implementation of the ATM call control module based on UNI 4.0 signaling standard in OPNET 
  • Developed an OPNET based tool to simulate a custom MAC protocol for dynamic reservations and contention mechanisms for bandwidth allocation to terminals
  • Design and deployment of an in-house testbed with Cisco 2600 routers, switches and end user PCs to emulate terminal/gateway traffic and performance evaulations