Motorola Inc., USA

• Senior Systems Engineer with the Networks Advanced Technology department of   Motorola Inc., USA.  
• Member of Technical Staff from April 2007 at   Bell Labs, Bangalore, India.  
• Postdoctoral Fellow from June 2006 to Feb 2007   at Thomson Research Lab, Paris, France. and jointly at ENS-INRIA, Paris, France.  
• Postdoctoral Fellow from June 2005 to May 2006 at   Intel Research Lab, Cambridge, UK.  
• Ph.D (May 2005),   School of ECE at Purdue University 
• Dissertation: Cross-layer Interactions and Optimizations in Wireless Networks. Thesis (pdf)
  
• Research Interests
• Mesh Networks: Analytical study and experimental verification of schemes for throughput improvement in multi-hop mesh networks
• WLANs: Analytical study and experimental verification of schemes for Power Control and MAC tuning in 802.11 infrastructure networks
• Ad Hoc Networks: Capacity bounds for wireless ad hoc networks with link layer considerations.
• Cellular Networks: Interference modeling, power and rate allocation (scheduling).
• Wireless Sensor Networks: Optimal clustering and energy efficient communication.
• Advisor: Prof. Catherine Rosenberg
• B.Tech (Bachelors) from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay) in Electrical Engineering (Advisor: Prof. Abhay Karandikar )
• CV (obsolete)
  

TPC:

• IEEE SECON 2008
• IEEE Wimesh 2008
• IEEE Infocom 2008
• IEEE SECON 2008
• IEEE COMSWARE and Wisard 2008
• IEEE SECON 2007

Journal Publications:

• V. Mhatre, "Enhanced Wireless Mesh Networking for ns-2 simulator," editorial in ACM Sigcomm CCR (Computer Communications Review), July 2007 (pdf).
  
• V. Mhatre, C. P. Rosenberg, "Impact of Network Load on Forward Link Inter-cell Interference in Cellular Data Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Volume 5, Issue 12, Pp 3651-3661, December 2006. (pdf)
• V. Mhatre, C. P. Rosenberg, D. Kofman, R. R. Mazumdar, and N. B. Shroff, "A Minimum Cost Surveillance Sensor Network with a Lifetime Constraint,"  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, January 2005, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 4-15. (pdf)
• V. Mhatre, C. Rosenberg, "Design Guidelines for Wireless Sensor Networks: Communication, Clustering and Aggregation,"  Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Elsevier Science, 2004, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp 45-63. (pdf) 

Conference Publications:

• NEW S. Deb, V. Mhatre, and V. Ramayian, "WiMAX Relay Networks: Opportunistic Scheduling to Exploit Multiuser Diversity and Frequency Selectivity ," to appear in the proc. of ACM MOBICOM 2008, San Francisco, September 2008. (Author names in alphabetical order) (pdf)
  
• V. Mhatre, F. Baccelli, H. Lundgren, and C. Diot, "Joint MAC-aware Routing and Load Balancing in Mesh Networks ," in the proc. of ACM SIGCOMM CoNext 2007, New York, December 2007.
  
• I. Broustis, D. Papagiannaki, S. Krishnamurthy, M. Faloutsos, and V. Mhatre, "MDG: Measurement-Driven Guidelines for 802.11 WLAN Design," in the proc. of ACM MOBICOM 2007, Montreal, Canada, September 2007. (pdf)
  
• V. Mhatre, K. Papagiannaki, and F. Baccelli, "Interference Mitigation Through Power Control in High Density 802.11 WLANs," in the proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2007. (pdf)
  
• B. Kauffmann, F. Baccelli, A. Chaintreau, V. Mhatre, K. Papagiannaki, and C. Diot, "Measurement-Based Self Organization of Interfering 802.11 Wireless Access Networks," in the proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2007. (pdf)
  
• V. Mhatre, H. Lundgren, and C. Diot, "MAC-Aware Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks," to appear in the proc. of The Fourth International Wireless on Demand Network Systems and Services (IEEE/IFIP WONS 2007), Obergurgl, Austria, January 2007. (pdf)
  
• V. Mhatre, D. Papagiannaki, "Optimal Design of High Density 802.11 WLANs," to appear in the proc. of ACM CoNext 2006, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2006. (pdf)
  
• V. Mhatre, K. Papagiannaki, "Using Smart Triggers for Improved User Performance in 802.11 Wireless Networks," in the proc. of  International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (USENIX/ACM MOBISYS 2006), Uppsala, Sweden, June 2006. (pdf)
  
• V. Mhatre, C. Rosenberg, "The Impact of Link Layer Model on the Capacity of a Random Ad Hoc Network," in the proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2006), Seattle, WA, USA, July 2006. (paper pdf) (slides presented by Aravind Iyer)
  
• V. Mhatre, C. Rosenberg, "Homogeneous vs Heterogeneous Sensor Networks: A Comparative Study," in the proc. of International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004), Paris, France, June 2004. (pdf)
  
• V. Mhatre, C. Rosenberg, D. Kofman, R. Mazumdar and N. Shroff, "Design of Surveillance Sensor Grids with a Lifetime Constraint," in the proc. of 1st European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2004), Jan 2004. presentation slides (pdf)

Book Chapters:

• V. Mhatre and C. Rosenberg, "Energy and cost optimizations in wireless sensor networks: A survey," in Performance Evaluation and Planning Methods for the Next Generation Internet (A. Girard, B. Sanso, and F. Vazquez-Abad, eds.), 25th Anniversary Volumes of GERAD (Group for Research in Decision Analysis), Kluwer Academic Publishers, May 2005. (pdf)

Seminars:

• Talk at International Conference on Stochastic Processes and Applications organized by Indian Institute of Sciences, Dept. of Mathematics, IISc Mathematics Initiative (IMI) on "Self Configuration in Wireless Networks," July 2007 (pdf).
  
• Talks at Bell Labs Bangalore and Motorola Bangalore on "Self Configuration in 802.11 Networks: Analysis, Algorithms and Experimentation," May 2006.
  
• Talks at IIT Madras, IISc Bangalore, IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay and TIFR Bombay on "The Capacity of Ad-hoc Networks," September 2005, presentation slides (pdf prepared using Latex-Beamer).
  
• Seminar at Computing Research Institute, CRI, Purdue University "Impact of Network Load on Forward Link Inter-cell Interference in Cellular Data Networks," February 2005 presentation slides (pdf).
• Talk in Advanced Networking course, ECE 647, Purdue University "CDMA 2000: 1xEVDO and 1xEVDV, An Overview," April 2004 presentation slides (pdf).
• Seminar at Computing Research Institute, CRI, Purdue University "Structural Characteristics of Wireless Sensor Networks," February 2004 presentation slides (pdf).
• Talk in Undergraduate Networking course, ECE 495R, Purdue University "Wireless Sensor Networks: An Overview," December 2004 presentation slides (pdf)
  

Software:

• Thomson Mesh Modules (Enhanced ns-2 simulator modules for mesh network simulations; enhanced PHY/MAC layer for cumulative interference, combined shadow fading, auto rate fallback, multi-rate links, etc.) Available for download here.
  
• A Simulator for CDMA-HDR downlink (source code)
  

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