Vivek Pai & Ivan Seskar

Giving Researchers a Platform
General Session IV, Friday, 3:00pm - 4:00pm, Auditorium

Plenary Speaker

Vivek Pai
Associate Professor in Computer Science
Princeton University

Plenary Speaker

Ivan Seskar
Associate Director of Information Technology
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Biography

Vivek Pai is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at Princeton University. His research focuses on wide-area distributed systems, content distribution, operating systems, and server performance. He was one of the founders of iMimic Networking, where he helped architect and develop the fastest Web proxy server in the world.

Ivan Seskar is Associate Director of WINLAB (Wireless Information Network Laboratory) at Rutgers University, where he has overall responsibility for the center's experimental research programs. He has more than twenty years research experience in field of telecommunications and wireless networks and has served as an investigator on various grants from NSF and DARPA. More recently Mr. Seskar was one the co-PIs and a lead project engineer for the NSF-funded "ORBIT" open-access wireless networking testbed. In this role, he led a team of engineers and graduate students who developed the 400-node ORBIT radio grid which was successfully deployed in 2005 and for which the team received 2008 Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation. His research group at WINLAB developed one of the first software define radio (SDR) prototypes in the mid-1990's, and is currently workingon another WINLAB project aimed at development of a novel network-centric cognitive radio platform. Ivan Seskar obtained his B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from University of Novi Sad and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University. His technical interests include experimental protocol evaluation, radio technology, vehicular networking and wireless systems in general. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and co-founder and CTO of Upside Wireless Inc.

Ivan Seskar is part of a team of researchers working on Bibliometrics.  Among recent  white papers Mr. Seskar co-wrote are "A Review: Cognitive radio technology: From distributed spectrum coordination to adaptive network collaboration" and "A wired-wireless testbed architecture for network layer experimentation based on ORBIT and VINI"

Abstract

In this talk, we describe some of the work that developed from two research testbeds, PlanetLab and WINLAB. These systems have allowed large numbers of researchers to focus on large-scale problems related to the Internet (PlanetLab) and wireless networking (WINLAB). In addition to providing some general background on these systems and their research goals, we will describe the upcoming efforts for a larger, integrated testbed as well as some projects that have developed from these testbed efforts.