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I am a Phd student, and a USC Annenberg fellow, in the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Southern California. I am a member of the Autonomous Networks Research Group and my advisor is Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari.

My interests lie in designing rate/congestion control algorithms for autonomous wireless networks such as ad-hoc and sensor networks. I am focusing on designing rate/congestion control protocols using a top-down approach which involves a theoretical modeling of the problem, resulting in a cross-layer design. The challenge is to come up with simple network models, that are analytically tractable while being good approximations of the real world network dynamics. Our goal is to use these simple representative models to design practically viable cross-layer rate control protocols using convex-duality-based, and Lyapunov-drift-based, stochastic optimization techniques which have already been proposed in the wireless networking literature.

We are currently focusing on developing these protocols for the TinyOS-2.x platform which is one of the most popular operating systems for wireless sensor networks research. The Research tab contains more details about the current protocols we are proposing, and the model we are using to design these protocols.