Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam Microsoft Research India “Scientia” 196/36 2nd Main Sadashivnagar, Bangalore 560 080 India Phone: +91 (80) 6658-6228 Mobile: +91 9986503514 Email: leninr [at] microsoft [dot] com

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I am an ASSISTANT RESEARCHER in the Mobility, Networks and Systems group at Microsoft Research India. I joined Microsoft Research in August 2006 after finishing my BE in Computer Science from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University in May 2006.

I was a summer intern in the Networking Research group at Microsoft Research, Redmond during 2005 and at Microsoft Research, India during 2006. I also interned at Microsoft India Development Center in 2004.

My research interests are in wireless networks and building systems. I also love working on cool projects (even very small ideas) which gets tranferred into products and reaches people.

I am joining MIT for PhD starting Fall 2008

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Resume

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Projects

• DAIR (Dense Array of Inexpensive Radios): To manage Corporate Wireless Networks
• SixthSense: RFID-based Enterprise Intelligence
• COMBINE: Collaborative Downloading for Multi-Homed Wireless Devices
• WiFi-Neighborcast: Enabling Communication Among Nearby Clients
• WiFiAds (Beacon-Stuffing): Delivering Location Sensitive Advertisements using Wireless Networks

Publications

Conferences

• SixthSense: RFID-based Enterprise Intelligence
  Lenin Ravindranath, Piyush Agrawal, Venkat Padmanabhan
  ACM Mobisys, June 2008
• COMBINE: Leveraging the Power of Wireless Peers through Collaborative Downloading
  Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Venkat Padmanaban, Lenin Ravindranath, Chandu Thekkath
  ACM Mobisys, June 2007
• Enhancing Security of Corporate Wi-Fi Networks Using DAIR
  Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Jitendra Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath, Manpreet Singh, Alec Wolman, Brian Zill
  ACM Mobisys, June 2006

Workshops

• Wi-Fi Neighborcast: Enabling Communication Among Nearby Clients
  Ranveer Chandra, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath
  IEEE Hotmobile, February 2008
• Beacon-Stuffing: Wi-Fi Without Associations
  Ranveer Chandra, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath, Alec Wolman
  IEEE Hotmobile, February 2007
• Collaborative Downloading for Multi-homed Wireless Devices
  Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Venkat Padmanaban, Lenin Ravindranath, Chandu Thekkath
  IEEE Hotmobile, February 2007
• DAIR: A Framework for Managing Enterprise Wireless Networks Using Desktop Infrastructure
  Paramvir Bahl, Jitendra Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath, Manpreet Singh, Alec Wolman, Brian Zill
  ACM Hotnets IV, November 2005
• Improving the Latency of 802.11 Hand-offs using Sentinel based Architecture
  Lenin Ravindranath, Fredrick Prashanth, Leo Prasath, Praveen Durairaj, Arul Siromoney
  12th IEEE HiPC, December 2005

Patents

• Collaborative Downloading for Multi-homed Wireless Devices, Patent #319270
  
• Detection And Management of Rogue Wireless Network Connections, Patent #315436
  
• Wi-Fi Neighborcast: Enabling Communication Among Nearby Clients, Patent #322612
  
• Sixth-Sense: RFID-based Enterprise Intelligence, filed, December 2007
  

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leninr[at]microsoft[dot]com