Bhaskaran Raman: Publications, Theses, and Presentations
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Publications
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``FRACTEL: A Fresh Perspective on (Rural) Mesh Networks'',
Kameswari Chebrolu and Bhaskaran Raman, Accepted for publication,
The ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR'07),
A Workshop in SIGCOMM 2007, Aug 2007, Kyoto, Japan.
[Acceptance rate: 21.3%].
Paper draft:
[pdf]
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``Long Distance Wireless Mesh Network Planning: Problem
Formulation and Solution'', Sayandeep Sen and Bhaskaran Raman,
The 16th
Annual Interntional World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007), May 2007,
Banff, Canada. [Acceptance rate: 14.7%].
Paper:
[pdf]
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``Experiences in using WiFi for Rural Internet in India'',
Bhaskaran Raman and Kameswari Chebrolu, IEEE Communications Magazine, Jan 2007, Special Issue
on New Directions In Networking Technologies In Emerging Economies.
Paper:
[pdf]
Presentation:
[pdf]
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``Implications of Link Range and (In)Stability on Sensor Network
Architecture'', Bhaskaran Raman, Kameswari Chebrolu, Naveen
Madabhushi, Dattatraya Y Gokhale, Phani K Valiveti, and Dheeraj
Jain, The First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network
Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization (WiNTECH
2006), A MOBICOM 2006 Workshop, Sep 2006, Los Angeles, USA.
[Acceptance rate: 35.5%].
Paper:
[pdf]
Presentation:
[pdf]
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``Long-Distance 802.11b Links: Performance Measurements and
Experience'', Kameswari Chebrolu, Bhaskaran Raman, and Sayandeep Sen,
12th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and
Networking (MOBICOM), Sep 2006, Los Angeles, USA.
[Acceptance rate: 11.7%].
Paper:
[pdf]
Presentation:
[pdf]
- ``Rural Telephony: A Socio-Economic Case Study'', Sayandeep Sen,
Sukant Kole, and Bhaskaran Raman, International Conference on
Information and Communication Technologies and Development
(ICTD-2006), May 2006, U.C.Berkeley.
Paper:
[pdf]
Poster:
[pdf]
- ``Wake-on-WLAN'', Nilesh Mishra, Kameswari Chebrolu, Bhaskaran
Raman, and Abhinav Pathak, The 15th Annual Interntional World Wide
Web Conference (WWW 2006), May 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland.
[Acceptance rate: 11%].
Paper:
[pdf]
Presentation:
[ppt]
- ``Channel Allocation in 802.11-based Mesh Networks'', Bhaskaran
Raman, The 25th Annual Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE
INFOCOM), Barcelona, Spain, April 2006. [Acceptance rate: 18%].
Paper:
[pdf]
Presentation:
[pdf]
- ``Feasibility Study of Spatial Reuse in an 802.11 Access
Network'', A. R. Harish, Sreekanth Garigala, Bhaskaran Raman, and
Phalguni Gupta, XXVIII URSI General Assembly, New Delhi, India, Oct
2005.
Paper:
[pdf]
Poster:
[pdf]
- ``Design and Evaluation of a new MAC Protocol for Long-Distance
802.11 Mesh Networks'', Bhaskaran Raman and Kameswari Chebrolu, 11th
Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
(MOBICOM), Aug/Sep 2005, Cologne, Germany.
[Acceptance rate: 10.3%].
Paper:
[pdf]
Conference presentation:
[pdf]
More detailed presentation:
[pdf]
- ``A Network Layer Approach to Enable TCP over Multiple
Interfaces'', Kameswari Chebrolu, Bhaskaran Raman, Ramesh Rao, Wireless
Networks (WINET), Springer Science+Business Media, Volume 11, Issue 5,
Sep 2005, Pages 637-650.
Paper: [link]
- ``Revisiting MAC Design for an 802.11-based Mesh Network'',
Bhaskaran Raman and Kameswari Chebrolu, Third Workshop on Hot Topics
in Networks (HotNets-III), 15-16 Nov 2004, San Diego, CA, USA.
[Acceptance rate: 19.7%].
Paper:
[pdf]
Presentation:
[pdf]
- ``Turning 802.11 Inside-Out'', Pravin Bhagwat, Bhaskaran Raman,
and Dheeraj Sanghi, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review,
Vol. 34, No: 1, pp. 33-38, Jan 2004. (Also appears in
HotNets-II proceedings).
- ``Turning 802.11 Inside-Out'', Pravin Bhagwat, Bhaskaran Raman,
and Dheeraj Sanghi, Second Workshop on Hot Topics in
Networks (HotNets-II), 20-21 Nov 2003, Cambridge, MA, USA.
[Acceptance rate: 19.3%] (Also appears in CCR).
Paper:
[pdf]
Presentation:
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- ``An Architecture for Highly Available Wide-Area Service
Composition'', Bhaskaran Raman and Randy H. Katz, Computer
Communications Journal, Vol. 26, No: 15, pp. 1727-1740, Special issue
on ``Recent Advances in Communication Networking'', Sep 2003.
- ``Load Balancing and Stability Issues in Algorithms for Service
Composition'', Bhaskaran Raman and Randy H. Katz, The 22nd Annual
Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies,
IEEE INFOCOM, Apr 2003. [Acceptance rate: 21%].
- ``Emulation-based Evaluation of an Architecture for Wide-Area
Service Composition'', Bhaskaran Raman and Randy H. Katz,
International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and
Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2002), July 2002.
[Acceptance rate: 60%].
- ``The SAHARA Model for Service Composition Across Multiple
Providers'', Bhaskaran Raman, Sharad Agarwal, Yan Chen, Matthew
Caesar, Weidong Cui, Per Johansson, Kevin Lai, Tal Lavian, Sridhar
Machiraju, Z. Morley Mao, George Porter, Timothy Roscoe, Mukund
Seshadri, Jimmy Shih, Keith Sklower, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian,
Takashi Suzuki, Shelley Zhuang, Anthony D. Joseph, Randy H. Katz, Ion
Stoica, Invited Paper, International Conference on Pervasive
Computing (Pervasive 2002), pp. 1-14, Aug 2002.
- ``Arguments for Cross-Layer Optimizations in Bluetooth
Scatternets'', Bhaskaran Raman, Pravin Bhagwat, and Srinivasan Seshan,
Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT'01), pp. 176-184,
Jan 2001. [Acceptance rate: 18.5%].
- ``Universal Inbox: Providing Extensible Personal Mobility and
Service Mobility in an Integrated Communication Network'', Bhaskaran
Raman, Randy H. Katz, and Anthony D. Joseph, Workshop on Mobile
Computing Systems and Applications (WMSCA'00), pp. 95-106, Dec
2000. [Acceptance rate: 37.7%].
- ``Online Dynamic Reordering'', Vijayshankar Raman, Bhaskaran
Raman, and Joseph M. Hellerstein, The VLDB Journal - The
International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, Vol. 9, No: 3,
pp. 247-260, Dec 2000.
- ``ICEBERG: An Internet-core Network Architecture for Integrated
Communications'', Helen J. Wang, Bhaskaran Raman, Chen-nee Chuah,
Rahul Biswas, Ramakrishna Gummadi, Barbara Hohlt, Xia Hong, Emre
Kiciman, Zhuoqing Mao, Jimmy S. Shih, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian,
Ben Y. Zhao, Anthony D. Joseph, and Randy H. Katz, IEEE Personal
Communications, Vol. 7, No: 4, pp. 10-19, Aug 2000: Special Issue on
IP-based Mobile Telecommunication Networks.
- ``The ICEBERG Project: Defining the IP and Telecom
Intersection'', Bhaskaran Raman, Helen J. Wang, Jimmy S. Shih, Anthony
D. Joseph, and Randy H. Katz, IT Professional, Vol. 1, No: 6,
pp. 38-45, Nov/Dec 1999.
- ``Online Dynamic Reordering for Interactive Data Processing'',
Vijayshankar Raman, Bhaskaran Raman, and Joseph M. Hellerstein,
Proc. of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Databases
(VLDB), pp. 709-720, Sep 1999. (Selected one of the best
papers). [Acceptance rate: 16%].
Theses
- ``An Architecture for Performance and Availability Constrained
Service Composition in the Wide-Area Internet'', Bhaskaran Raman, PhD
Thesis, EECS Department, U.C.Berkeley, Dec 2002.
- ``Personal Mobility in the ICEBERG Integrated Communication
Network'', Bhaskaran Raman, Master's Thesis, EECS Department,
U.C.Berkeley, May 1999.
- ``A Portable User-Level Thread Package'', Bhaskaran Raman,
B. Tech Project Report, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, May
1997.
Selected Presentations and Posters
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``Experience with WiFi for Rural Internet in India'', Bhaskaran
Raman, Invited presentation at Australia-India Broadband and IT
Workshop, Melbourne, Australia, 10-11 July 2006.
Presentation:
[pdf]
- ``RuralNet (Digital Gangetic Plains): WiFi-Based Low-Cost Rural
Networking'', Bhaskaran Raman, Keynote Presentation, Symposium on
Wireless Networking Systems, University of Philippines, 19 Nov
2005.
Presentation:
[pdf.gz]
- "Digital Gangetic Plains (DGP): 802.11-based Low-Cost Networking
for Rural India", Bhaskaran Raman, Presentation at
Wireless4Development, Djursland, Denmark, Sep 2004.
Presentation:
[pdf.gz]
Notes from discussion:
[link]
Poster:
[pdf.gz]
- "Digital Gangetic Plains (DGP): 802.11-based Low-Cost Networking
for Rural India, 2001-2004", Pravin Bhagwat, Dheeraj Sanghi,
Bhaskaran Raman, Presentation at Project Review, Sep 2004.
Presentation:
[pdf.gz]
- "Revisiting MAC design for an 802.11-based Mesh Network",
Bhaskaran Raman, Presentation at HRL, 19 Aug 2004.
Presentation:
[pdf.gz]
- ``Service Encapsulation in ICEBERG'', Presentation at Ericsson,
End of the ICEBERG Review, Sweden, Jun 2001.
- ``A Framework for Highly Available Internet Services'',
Bhaskaran Raman and Prof. Randy H. Katz, SIGCOMM'00 Student Poster
Session, Aug 2000.
- ``Universal Inbox for Personal Mobility and Service Mobility'',
Presentation at Ericsson, ICEBERG Project Review, Sweden, Aug 2000.
- ``Walkthrough of ICEBERG V0.0 Release'', Presentation at the
Endeavour Retreat, Jun 2000.
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