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Victor Bahl

 

  Victor Bahl
   Principal Researcher
   Group Manager
   Networking Research Group
   bahl@microsoft.com
   Tel: (425) 706-1021
   Fax: (425) 936-7329

 

 


Sample Projects

  • Choice, the world's first WiFi public hotspot network. Operated by MSR at the Crossroads Shopping Center, Bellevue, WA (1999-2001)
  • RADAR, the world's first RF signal-strength based indoor location determination system (1999-2000)
  • UCom, the world's first multi-radio single network system (2001-02)
  • Mesh, a networking paradigm popularized by MSR for broadband access in neighborhoods, cities, offices and rural areas (2003-05)
  • Virtual WiFi (Previously called MultiNet), a virtualization architecture that lets a network card connect to multiple wireless networks - over 70,000 downloads (2004-2005)
  • Academic Resource Kit, a teaching & research tool. Over 800 university depts. world-wide have requested & received this kit (2005-06)
  • Microsoft's Proposal for Initiating Discussions on Spectrum Etiquette in the 5 Ghz Band (Stanford Law School, 3/2/03)
  • WRAPI (An API for enabling WiFi research (Software from UCSD)
  • Keynotes

  • First International Workshop on Cognitive Dynamic Systems and Their Applications 2008, May 27, 2008, Ontario, Canada
  • Intel's Communications Internal Conference (ICOMM 2008), April 9, 2008, Stevenson, Washington, USA
  • The Third International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware (COMSWARE 2008), January 8, 2008, Bangalore, India
  • The Ninth International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), January 6, 2008, Kokatta, India
  • IFIP Symposium on Computer Performance Modeling, Measurements, and Evaluation (PERFORMANCE), October 2, 2007, Cologne, Germany
  • ACM Workshop on Mobility in Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch), August 27, 2007, Kyoto, Japan
  • Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QShine), August 15, 2007, Vancouver, Canada
  • IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, February 5, 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • SPIE Broadband Access Communication Technologies Conference, October 1, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • First International Workshop on "Wireless Mesh: Moving towards Applications", August 10, 2006, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  • Workshop on Wireless Personal and Local Area Networks, January 8, 2006, New Delhi, India
  • Texas Wireless Symposium, October 26-28, 2005, Austin, Texas
  • International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), September 5-7, 2005, Siena, Italy
  • International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB), July 11-13, 2005, Sidney, Australia
  • MICS Workshop ETH Zurich
  • , July 6-7, 2004, Zurich, Switzerland

    Tutorials

  • A Crash Course in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE GLOBECOM 2007, November 26, 2007, Washington D.C
  • A Crash Course in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE INFOCOMM 2007, May 6, 2007, Anchorage, Alaska
  • Wireless Mesh Networks: From Theory to Deployed Systems, ACM SIGCOMM 2006, September 11, 2006, Pisa, Italy
  • Videos

  • Mesh Networking Vision (WMV, 6/6/05, 4 min. 6 secs., 35 MB)
  • Wireless Hot Spots (MPEG Video, 3/20/00, 3:00 mins., 39.5 MB)
  • Mobile Communications Research at MSR (MPEG Video, 8/12/99, 8 mins. 41 secs., 95 MB)
  • Events

  • MSR's Cognitive Networking Summit 2008, Snoqualmie, Washington, USA (June 5-6, 2008)
  • MSR's EdgeNet 2006, Snoqualmie, Washington, USA (June 1-2, 2006)
  • MSR's WiNS 2006, Goa, India (April 7-8, 2006)
  • MSR's Self Managing Networks Summit 2005, Kirkland, Washington (June 1-2, 2005)
  • MSR's Mesh Networking Summit 2004, Snoqualmie, Washington, USA (June 23-24, 2004)

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