Picture of Prasun Sinha Prasun Sinha
Associate Professor

791 Dreese Labs
2015 Neil Avenue
Deptartment of Computer Science and Engineering
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210-1277
email: prasun@cse.ohio-state.edu
[ Resume] [ Publications] [ OWIN Lab ] [Teaching (677, 788)]
What is New?

  • Jan 2012: Will serve as a TPC co-chair for ICDCN 2013 .
  • Feb 2012: Guest Editor, Special Issue on IWQoS, Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM).
  • May 2011: Joined the Steering Committee of IWQoS .
  • Sep 2010: Welcome to new PhD students in our group: Wenjie Zhou, Bo Chen, Xiaofeng Wu
  • Serving as a TPC co-chair for BROADNETS 2010 and will serve as TPC co-chair for IWQoS 2011. .
  • Latest papers in Infocom 2010 on Sparse Networking (INFOCOM 2010) and Perpetual Networking (INFOCOM 2010),
  • Papers on Anycasting (TON 2010), and Sleep Cycling (TMC 2010)
  • An article (page #12) in the Spring 2009 CSE newsletter on our research on sparse networking
  • Lumley Research Award, College of Engineering, Awarded: May 2009
    About me

    I graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with my PhD in Computer Science in 2001. I got my MS degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University (1997) and my BTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi, India (1995). Before joining OSU in 2003, I was a researcher at Bell Labs, New Jersey from 2001 to 2003. During my graduate studies I did internships at Almaden Research Center, IBM, San Jose, and HRL Labs, Malibu.

    I am an IEEE senior member since April 2010. I received the Lumley Research Award from the College of Engineering at OSU in 2009, and the NSF CAREER award in 2006. During graduate studies I received the Mavis Memorial Scholarship (2000), Ray Ozzie Fellowship (1999), and the Distinguished Academic Achievement Award (1997).

    I am currently serving on the editorial boards of Transaction on Wireless Communications (TWC) and Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). I am currently serving as a TPC co-chair for IWQoS 2011, and I recently served as TPC co-chair for BROADNETS 2010 and TPC chair for QShine 2009.

    Research (Click here for a detailed research statement)

    My research focuses on the design of wireless network architectures and protocols, with current emphasis on sensor networks and cellular networks. I am particularly interested in algorithmic solutions to foundational issues in the design of network solutions, and experimental studies on real networks. Many of the research problems that I have worked on are motivated by applications from the domain of cyber-physical systems such as flood control, traffic control, earthquake monitoring and the smart-grid.

    In 2004, for the DARPA/NEST sponsored ExScal demonstration held at Avon Park, Florida, my responsibilities included designing network layer solutions for a network of 1000 Mica2/XSM based sensors (world's largest to date) that was supported by a backbone wireless mesh network of 200 Linux based Stargate nodes (also world's largest).

    My recent research contributions are in the following two areas:
    1. Perpetual Networking

      Sensor networks are being deployed around the world to monitor a wide variety of phenomena including earthquakes, volcanic activities, air pollution, and various weather related parameters. In many of these application scenarios, renewable energy sources such as solar or wind energy is readily available. Renewable energy can be leveraged to provide continuous (or perpetual) data services. Due to the small amout of energy that can be typically harvested using small form-factor recharging devices, dynamics of renewable energy, and difficulty in its precise estimation, providing services without interruptions caused by battery runouts is non-trivial. Most environment monitoring applications require data collection from all nodes at a steady rate. How can our applications operate in presence of such dynamics and yet collect high fidelity of data? Towards answering these questions, we have designed solutions for fair and high throughput data collection in presence of such dynamics. Some publications in this area to introduce you to this new area are as follows:



    2. Sparse Networking

      Designing and deploying wireless infrastructures of devices with short range has always been expensive and difficult to manage. Recently WiFi deployment projects have been scaled back in various cities. Although WiMAX and LTE are expected to increase the 3G bandwidth, customers are still missing the broadband experience over cellular networks. Is there a way to strategically and sparsely deploy WiFi access-points to provide good data quality for mobile users anywhere in the road network?

      Another example is -- large scale sensor network deployment for various applications. Although we are beginning to see many small scale deployments for specific applications, large scale deployments (e.g., city-wide) are prohibitevely expensive. So the key question is -- What notions of network coverage can we achieve when the budget is limited? These papers will introduce you to the new field of Sparse Networking:


    My past contributions are in the following areas:
    1. Scalable Low Power Sensor Networking
    2. Data Streaming over Wireless Networks
    3. Ad-hoc Networking: Architecture and Routing Infrastructure
    4. Data Transport over Local Area and Wide-Area Wireless Networks
    Research Group and Collaborations

    I lead the     Ohio Wireless Infrastructure and Networking (OWIN) research lab . The current students and alumni are as follows:

    Current Students
    • Wenjie Zhou (PhD)
    • Chen Bo (PhD)
    • Xiaofeng Wu (PhD)
    • Tarun Bansal (PhD)
    • Dong Li (PhD)
    • Zhixue Lu (PhD)
    • Shengbo Chen (PhD), jointly supervised with Prof. Ness Shroff
    • Yousi Zheng (PhD), jointly supervised with Prof. Ness Shroff
    Alumni
    • Dongwook Lee, Postdoc (2004-2007), Samsung, Korea
    • Kai-Wei Fan, PhD (Sp '08), MS (Au '07), Cisco, San Jose, CA
    • Sha Liu, PhD (Sp '08), MS (Sp '08), Epic Systems, Madison, WI
    • Zizhan Zheng, PostDoc, OSU, PhD (Sp '10), MS (Sp '09)
    • Ren-Shiou Liu, PhD (Sp '10), MS (Sp '09), Epic Systems, Madison, WI
    • Daeyoung Choi MS (Sp '10), Korea
    Other Graduate Students (OSU students I have co-authored in the past)
    • Ai Chen
    • Gayathri Chandrasekaran
    • Hongwei Zhang
    • Vinayak Naik
    • Thang Nam Le
    Recent Collaborators
    • Ness Shroff
    • Xiaojun Lin
    • Can Emre Koksal
    • Yigal Bejerano
    • Lisa Zhang
    • Anish Arora
    • Dong Xuan
    Note for Prospective Students: I am looking for one or two highly motivated students to join my group immediately with background and/or interest in mathematical techniques and/or experimental skills. Mathematical topics of particular relevance to my research include approximation algorithms, combinatorics, graph theory, probability, optimization etc. Experimental skills in TinyOS, 802.11, Linux kernel programming, and mesh networks is also relevant.
    Teaching

    Past and current courses are listed below:
    • CSE 677: Introduction to Computer Networking (Au '03, Au '04, Au '05, Wi '06, Au '06, Au '07, Au '08, Au '09)
    • CSE 678: Intenetworking (Wi '08, Wi '09, Wi '10)
    • CSE 777: Telecommunication Networks (Sp '04, Sp '05, Wi '06, Wi '07)
    • CSE 788: Next Generation Wireless Networks (Sp '04, Sp '05, Au '07)
    • CSE 888: Protocol Design for Wireless Networks (Most quarters)
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