Suman Nath
Refereed Publications
2010
- Suman Nath and Phillip B. Gibbons, Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage, in VLDB Journal, Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc., 2010
2009
- Michael Lehning, Nicholas Dawes, Mathias Bavay, Marc Parlange, Suman Nath, and Feng Zhao, Instrumenting the earth: next-generation sensor networks and environmental science , in The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, Microsoft Research, October 2009
- Galen Reeves, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, and Feng Zhao, Managing Massive Time Series Streams with Multi-Scale Compressed Trickles, in Proceedings of 35th Conference on Very Large Data Bases , Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc., August 2009
- Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Joe Nap, and Suman Nath, Evaluation of Range Nearest-Neighbor Queries with Quality Guarantee, in The 11th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), 2009
- Sebastian Michel, Ali Salehi, Liqian Luo, Nicholas Dawes, Karl Aberer, Guillermo Barrenetxea, Mathias Bavay, Aman Kansal, K. Ashwin Kumar, Suman Nath, Marc Parlange, Stewart Tansley, Catharine van Ingen, Feng Zhao, and Yongluan Zhou, Environmental Monitoring 2.0 (Demonstration), in 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2009
- Suman Nath, Energy Efficient Sensor Data Logging with Amnesic Flash Storage, in IPSN'09: Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2009
- Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, and Haowen Chan, Secure Outsourced Aggregation via One-way Chains, in ACM SIGMOD, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2009
- Lakshmi Ganesh, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, and Feng Zhao, Unleash Stranded Power in Data Centers with RackPacker, in Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (in conjunction with ISCA), 2009
- Sorabh Gandhi, Suman Nath, Subhash Suri, and Jie Liu, GAMPS: Compressing Multi Sensor Data by Grouping and Amplitude Scaling, in ACM SIGMOD, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2009
2008
- Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, and Feng Zhao, Sharing and Exploring Sensor Streams over Geocentric Interfaces, in 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 5 November 2008
- Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Leonidas Rigas, Lin Xiao, and Feng Zhao, Energy-aware server provisioning and load dispatching for connection-intensive internet services, in NSDI'08: Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2008
- Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan, and Zachary Anderson, Synopsis diffusion for robust aggregation in sensor networks, in ACM Transactions on Senson Networks (TOSN), vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1–40, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2008
- Yanif Ahmad and Suman Nath, COLR-Tree: Communication Efficient Spatio-Temporal Index for a Sensor Data Web Portal, in ICDE'08: 24th International Conference on Data Engineering, 2008
- Suman Nath and Phillip B. Gibbons, Online maintenance of very large random samples on flash storage, in VLDB '2008: Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases, VLDB Endowment, New York, NY, USA, 2008
2007
- Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, and Feng Zhao, SenseWeb: Shared Macro-scopes for Scientific Exploration, in Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI, 21 October 2007
- Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing, in IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 8–13, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, October 2007
- Aman Kansal, Jie Liu, and Suman Nath, SensorMap and Toolkit Tutorial, in Tutorials at Information Processing in sensor Networks (IPSN), 28 April 2007
- Suman Nath and Aman Kansal, FlashDB: dynamic self-tuning database for NAND flash, in IPSN '07: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2007
- Magdalena Balazinska, Amol Deshpande, Michael J. Franklin, Phillip B. Gibbons, Jim Gray, Mark Hansen, Michael Liebhold, Suman Nath, Alexander Szalay, and Vincent Tao, Data Management in the Worldwide Sensor Web, in IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 30–40, IEEE Educational Activities Department, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2007
- Suman Nath, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, SensorMap for Wide-Area Sensor Webs, in IEEE Computer, vol. 40, no. 7, pp. 90–93, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2007
- Suman Nath and Phillip B. Gibbons, Communicating via fireflies: geographic routing on duty-cycled sensors, in IPSN '07: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2007
2006
- Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Suman Nath, Availability of multi-object operations, in NSDI'06: Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Networked Systems Design & Implementation, USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2006
- Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Jessica Miller, Feng Zhao, and Andre Santanche, SensorMap: a Web site for sensors world-wide (Demo Abstract), in SenSys '06: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2006
- Suman Nath, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, Challenges in Building a Portal for Sensors World-Wide, in First Workshop on World-Sensor-Web (co-located with SenSys), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2006
- Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Srinivasan Seshan, Subtleties in tolerating correlated failures in wide-area storage systems, in NSDI'06: Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Networked Systems Design & Implementation, USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2006
- Andre Santanche, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Bodhi Priyantha, and Feng Zhao, SenseWeb: Browsing the Physical World in Real Time (Demo Abstract), in IPSN'06: ACM/IEEE Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2006
2005
- Amit Manjhi, Suman Nath, and Phillip B. Gibbons, Tributaries and deltas: efficient and robust aggregation in sensor network streams, in SIGMOD '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2005
- Suman Nath, Exploiting redundancy for robust sensing, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2005
- Jason Campbell, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath, Padmanabhan Pillai, Srinivasan Seshan, and Rahul Sukthankar, IrisNet: an internet-scale architecture for multimedia sensors, in MULTIMEDIA '05: Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2005
- Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Srinivasan Seshan, Adaptive data placement for wide-area sensing services, in FAST'05: Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2005
- Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Suman Nath, Database-centric Programming for Wide-area Sensor Systems, in DCOSS'05: First International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, 2005
2004
- Suman Nath, Yan Ke, Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp, and Srinivasan Seshan, A Distributed Filtering Architecture for Multimedia Sensors, in BaseNets'04: First Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks, 2004
- Praveen Yalagandula, Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Srinivasan Seshan, Beyond Availability: Towards a Deeper Understanding of Machine Failure Characteristics in Large Distributed Systems, in WORLDS'04: First Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems, 2004
- Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan, and Zachary R. Anderson, Synopsis diffusion for robust aggregation in sensor networks, in SenSys '04: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2004
- Suman Nath, Zachary Anderson, and Srinivasan Seshan, Choosing beacon periods to improve response times for wireless HTTP clients, in MobiWac '04: Proceedings of the second international workshop on Mobility management & wireless access protocols, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2004
2003
- Amol Deshpande, Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Srinivasan Seshan, Cache-and-query for wide area sensor databases, in SIGMOD '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2003
- Suman Nath, Amol Deshpande, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Srinivasan Seshan, Mining a World of Smart Sensors (Poster Abstract), in SIGMOBILE Mob. Comput. Commun. Rev., vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 34–36, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2003
- Amol Deshpande, Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Srinivasan Seshan, IrisNet: Internet-scale resource-intensive sensor services (Demo Abstract), in SIGMOD '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2003
- Suman Nath, Amol Deshpande, Yan Ke, Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp, and Srinivasan Seshan, IrisNet: an architecture for internet-scale sensing services (Demo Abstract), in VLDB '2003: Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Very large data bases, VLDB Endowment, 2003
- Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp, Yan Ke, Suman Nath, and Srinivasan Seshan, IrisNet: An Architecture for a Worldwide Sensor Web, in IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 22–33, IEEE Educational Activities Department, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2003
- Suman Nath, Yan Ke, Amol Deshpande, Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp, and Srinivasan Seshan, IrisNet: An Architecture for Internet-scale Sensing Services (Demo Abstract), in SenSys '03: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2003
2001
- Vanish Talwar, Suman Kumar Nath, and and Klara Nahrstedt, RSVP-SQoS : A Secure RSVP Protocol, in ICME'01: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, August 2001
- M. Kaykobad, Suman Kumar Nath, and F.J.M. Salzborn, The Minimum Connection Time Problem, in ICECE'01: International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2001
- Suraj Sudhir, Suman Nath, and Seth Copen Goldstein, Configuration Caching and Swapping, in FPL '01: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, Springer-Verlag, London, UK, 2001
2000
- Rezaul Alam Chowdhury, Suman Kumar Nath, and M. Kaykobad, The Heap-Merge Sort, in Computer and Mathematics with Applications, vol. 39, no. 7-8, pp. 193–197, 2000
- Rezaul Alam Chowdhury, Suman Kumar Nath, and M. Kaykobad, Simplified Complexity Analysis of McDiarmid and Reed's Variant of Bottom-up Heap Sort, in International Journal of Computer Mathematics, vol. 73, pp. 293–297, 2000
1999
- Suman Kumar Nath, Rezaul Alam Chowdhury, and M. Kaykobad, Min-Max Fine Heap, in ICCIT'99: International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 1999
- Suman Kumar Nath, Rezaul Alam Chowdhury, and M. Kaykobad, On average edge length of minimum spanning trees, in Information Processing Letters, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 241–243, Elsevier North-Holland, Inc., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands, 1999
1997
- M. Kaykobad, Md. Sanaul Hoque, Md. Mostofa Akber, and Suman Kumar Nath, An Efficient Preprocessor for Solving Systems of Linear Equations, in International Journal of Computer Mathematics, vol. 64, pp. 309–315, 1997
Technical Reports and other
- Galen Reeves, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, and Feng Zhao, Cypress: Managing Massive Time Series Streams with MultiScale Compressed Trickles, no. MSR-TR-2009-79, 25 June 2009
- Lakshmi Ganesh, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Galen Reeves, and Feng Zhao, Unleash Stranded Power in Data Centers with Rack Packing, no. MSR-TR-2009-21, 2009
- yossi azar, Uriel Feige, and Suman Nath, On the Work Function Algorithm for two state task, no. MSR-TR-2007-20, February 2007
- Suman Nath, Communicating via Fireflies: Geographic Routing on Duty-Cycled Sensors, no. MSR-TR-2007-21, February 2007
- Suman Nath and Aman Kansal, FlashDB: Dynamic Self-tuning Database for NAND Flash, no. MSR-TR-2006-168, November 2006
- Suman Nath, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, Challenges in Building a Portal for Sensors World-Wide, no. MSR-TR-2006-133, September 2006



