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    Ashish Sharma

    PhD
    Department of Computer Science
    University of California - Santa Barbara
    Email: asharma [at] cs.ucsb.edu
    Phone: (805) 708 7370



    Welcome

    I have graduated with a PhD from the Department of Computer Science in the Fall of 2010. I am now working at Android Core team @ Google! I received my B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) in May 2005, and I joined UCSB in Fall'05. I joined Moment Lab in Spring 2006.

    My research interests lie in the field of Systems and Wireless Networking. My current research aims at building inexpensive and reliable wireless networks for rural areas using recently unlicensed White-Spaces. I enjoy developing and working on systems that involve interactions among different layers of the networking protocol stack. I have been fortunate to have experience in the design and implementation of the following systems (the list is growing..! ):

    Experience

    Publications

    "Whi-Spi: Building WiFi-2.0 for White Spaces",
    Ashish Sharma, Elizabeth Belding, Ravi Jain (Under Submission)

    "Rate Adaptation in Congested Wireless Networks through Real-Time Measurements",
    Prashanth Acharya, Ashish Sharma, Elizabeth Belding, Kevin Almeroth, Konstantina Papagiannaki
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Journal (TMC 2010)

    "Cool-Tether: Energy Efficient On-the-fly WiFi Hot-spots using Mobile Phones",
    Ashish Sharma, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, Venkat Padmanabhan, Elizabeth Belding
    ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT'09 - 5th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), Rome, Italy, 2009
    Press Coverage:( Slashdot, The New Scientist , PCPro.co.uk , Popular Science )
     Project page at MSR: Cool-Tether

    "Cell-Share: Opportunistic Use of Cellular Uplink to Augment Rural WiFi Mesh Networks",
    Ashish Sharma, Elizabeth Belding, Charles E. Perkins
    IEEE VTC'09 - IEEE 70th Vehicular Technology Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, 2009

    "A Case for Application Aware Channel Access in Wireless Networks",
    Ashish Sharma, Elizabeth Belding
    ACM HotMobile'09 - Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Santa Cruz, 2009

    "FreeMAC: Framework for Multi-Channel MAC Development on 802.11 Hardware",
    Ashish Sharma, Elizabeth Belding
    ACM SIGCOMM PRESTO'08 - Workshop on Programmable Routers for Extensible Services of Tomorrow, Seattle, Aug 2008

    "Congestion-Aware Rate Adaptation in Wireless Networks: A Measurement-Driven Approach",
    Prashanth Acharya, Ashish Sharma, Elizabeth Belding, Kevin C. Almeroth, Konstantina Papagiannaki
    (Nominated for Best Paper Award) IEEE SECON'08, San Francisco, June 2008

    "MadMAC: Building a Reconfigurable Radio Testbed Using Commodity 802.11 Hardware ",
    Ashish Sharma, Mohit Tiwari, Haitao Zheng
    IEEE SECON WSDR'06 - Workshop on Networking Technologies for Software Defined Radio Networks, Reston, VA, Sep 2006

    "Tracking of Mobile Terminals Using Subscriber Mobility Pattern with Time-Bound Self Purging Indicators and Regional Route Maps ",
    R.K. Ghosh, Saurabh Aggarwala, Hemant Mishra, Ashish Sharma, Hrushikesha Mohanty
    IWDC'05 - International Workshop on Distributed Computing, Kharagpur, India, 2005

    Patents Filed

    Cool-Tether: Energy Efficient On-the-fly WiFi Hot-spots using Mobile Phones

    Demos/Posters

    "Systems Support for Application Aware Wireless Networks",
    Ashish Sharma, POSTER at MobiSys PhD Forum'09, June 2009

    "Rendezvous: An Application Aware MAC for Wireless Networks",
    Ashish Sharma, Elizabeth Belding, DEMO at HotMobile 09, Feb 2009

    "FreeMAC: Implementing a Multi-Channel TDMA MAC on 802.11 Hardware",
    Ashish Sharma, Elizabeth Belding, DEMO at MobiSys 08, June 2008

    "Evolution: A Dynamic TDMA MAC for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks Implemented on the FreeMAC Framework ",
    Ashish Sharma, Elizabeth Belding, DEMO at MobiCom 08, Sep 2008

    Softwares

    Here is a list of softwares I have developed over the years. One of these days I will release all the code. Please send me a note if you'd be interested in any of these. I have a record of everyone who has ever contacted me and I will contact each and everyone of you, when I do release the code!

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