Gautam D. Bhanage
(WINLAB Alumni, 2011)

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WINLAB Projects:

1. Wireless Network Virtualization and Optimization
Network virtualization is a recent offspring from conventional systems virtualization, where virtualization aims to provide programability and isolation in the network stack. This project involves work in different directions such as determining suitable platforms for network virtualization, theoretical formulations for virtualization, and design and implementation of working platforms with substrates such as WiFi and WiMAX. Selected papers on wireless Virtualization can be found here. Further details on our current work on the GENI Open WiMAX basestation can be found here and here.


2. MAC aggregation for wireless devices
In this study we try to understand the impact of MAC aggregation on empirical wireless experimentation as an initial study. Following this we propose, model and evaluate an approach to adaptive MAC aggregation on 802.11 systems.




3. ORBIT Testbed
This project involved among other things, integrating ORBIT services for facilitating remote experimentation, network virtualization to improve testbed utilization, and developing schemes for better topology mapping using software approaches. Previous efforts also included a prototype for allowing integrated experimentation between the Planetlab (wired) and ORBIT (wireless) experimentation consoles. Our work on the ORBIT testbed was also featured recently among 10 emerging technologies on the MIT Technology Review.


4. RollCall RFID - An active tag platform
The RollCall Project aims to build a cost effective asset tracking system by reducing power consumption, thus increasing battery life. The design argues for the use of active tags for better monitoring of devices over longer distances, while operating them in a transmit only mode. Power lost in idle listening is conserved by eliminating the receiver entirely from the tags. More details on this project are available here.






Past and Current Research Collaborators

               


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