Ramachandran Ramjee
SENIOR RESEARCHER
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I am a researcher in the Mobility, Networks, and Systems group. Here is a short bio. You can reach me at ramjee@microsoft.com
Some recent publication and project information is listed below. Please proceed to my previous homepage for older publications and other information.
Publications
- Ashish Sharma, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Elizabeth Belding, Cool-Tether: Energy Efficient On-the-fly WiFi Hot-spots using Mobile Phones, in Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., December 2009
- Ranveer Chandra, Sandeep Karanth, Thomas Moscibroda, Vishnu Navda, Jitu Padhye, Ramachandran Ramjee, and Lenin Ravindrananth, DirCast: A Practical and Efficient Wi-Fi Multicast System, in IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), IEEE, October 2009
- Ashok Anand, Chitra Muthukrishnan, Aditya Akella, and Ramachandran Ramjee, Redundancy in Network Traffic: Findings and Implications, in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2009
- Li Erran Li, Richard Alimi, Ramachandran Ramjee, Harish Viswanathan, and Yang Richard Yang, muNet: Harnessing Multiuser Capacity in Wireless Mesh Networks, in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom Mini Symposium, IEEE, April 2009
- Prashanth Mohan, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Ramachandran Ramjee, Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones, in ACM Sensys, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2008
- Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, and Ramachandran Ramjee, TrafficSense: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones, no. MSR-TR-2008-59, April 2008
- R. Alimi, L. E. Li, Ramachandran Ramjee, H. Viswanathan, and Y. R. Yang, iPack: in-Network Packet Mixing for High Throughput Wireless Mesh Networks, in IEEE Infocom, IEEE Communications Society, April 2008
- L. E. Li, R. Alimi, Ramachandran Ramjee, J. Shi, Y. Sun, H. Viswanathan, and Y. R. Yang, Superposition Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks, in Extended Abstract (4 pages) in ACM Mobicom, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., September 2007
- L. E. Li, Ramachandran Ramjee, M. Buddhikot, and S. Miller, Network Coding-Based Broadcast in Mobile Ad hoc Networks, in IEEE Infocom, Anchorage, AK, USA, IEEE Communications Society, May 2007
Recent Talks
- Invited talk titled "Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones" at Kaist Computer Science Colloquium, Korea, March 2009 (earlier versions of this talk given at MIT, UMASS, IIT Chennai and WIZARD'2009)
- Keynote talk titled "Context-Aware Mobile Information Access" at Infovision 2009 conference.
Press Coverage
- Inside Microsoft Research: The Cutting Edge on Display (PC World, 04 Mar 2008)
- TechFest takes a worldview (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 05 Mar 2008)
Professional Activities
I served as the Program Co-chair of ACM MOBICOM 2006 and IEEE ICNP 2004. Recent service on conference program committees:
- ACM SIGCOMM 2010 (TPC member)
- IEEE INFOCOM 2010 (TPC Area Chair)
- ACM MOBICOM 2009 (TPC member)
- IEEE INFOCOM 2009 (TPC member)
- ACM SENSYS 2008 (TPC member)
- IEEE ICNP 2008 (TPC member)
- ACM MOBICOM 2008 (TPC member)
- IEEE INFOCOM 2008 (TPC Area Chair)
Teaching
I taught two graduate courses "Wireless and Mobile Networking I & II" (Spring'03 and Fall'03) in the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University, New York.
Education
- Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997
Title: Supporting Connection Mobility in Wireless Networks
Advisors: Prof. Jim Kurose and Prof. Don Towsley. - M.S., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1994
Title: Adaptive Playout Mechanisms for Packetized Audio Applications in Wide-Area Networks
Advisors: Prof. Jim Kurose and Prof. Don Towsley. - B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1992.
