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- 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:
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)
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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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