Students

Earl Oliver (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/eaoliver/): Earl's research is focused on building large-scale decentralized censorship resistant mobile communication systems. His work traverses many systems areas including cellular communication, energy, opportunistic communication and delay tolerant networking.

Alumni

Nabeel Ahmed (http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~n3ahmed/): Nabeel's interest is in self-management (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/05/succ-refinement.pdf) for wireless local area networks.

Usman Ismail (http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~uismail): Usman's interests are in supporting VoIP over WLAN.

Aaditeshwar Seth (http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~a3seth/): Adi developed the (Opportunistic Connection Management Protocol (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/05/ocmp.pdf)) for session management between a mobile and a proxy over multiple network interfaces that can all be mobile and disconnected. This work was initiated while Adi was visiting Supratik Bhattacharyya at Sprint ATL (http://www.sprintlabs.com/). He later worked on exploiting social networks for search.

David Hadaller (http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~dthadall/) (co-supervised by Prof. T. Brecht): David worked on opportunistic communication from vehicles to roadside WiFi access points. He now lives and works in beautiful Courtenay, BC.

Sumair Ur Rahman (http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~surrahma/): Sumair designed and implemented systems to provide privacy and security to kiosk customers and disconnected PDAs.

Mohammad Derakhshani (http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~mderakhs): Associate Researcher worked on Vlink project

Hossein Falaki (http://cs.ucla.edu/~falaki/): Hossein worked on WLAN scanning strategies on multi-NIC mobile devices. He also designed and developed an easy-to-use installation and deployment system for KioskNet. He is now in the graduate program at UCLA.

Shimin Guo (http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~sguo/): Shimin worked on optimal flow control in a bus-and-kiosk model. He also protyped a kiosk using Soekris (http://www.soekris.com) boxes and Edubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com). He is now at Google.

Omer Beg (http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~mbeg/) (co-supervised with Martin Karsten): Omer worked on Flecs, a language that allows rapid implementation of forwarding protocols. He is now a PhD student at Waterloo under the supervision of Prof. van Beek.

Matei Zaharia (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~matei/): Matei worked on re-architecting OCMP and optimal scheduling for multi-NIC devices. In the past, he also worked on efficient search in P2P networks (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/05/search.pdf), and approximate matching algorithms for Web 2.0. Matei is a grad student at UC Berkeley.

Majid Ghaderi (http://www.ucalgary.ca/~mghaderi/index.html): Majid worked on MMS modeling (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/05/mms.pdf) and analysis of TCP over CDMA. Majid is a Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary.

Andre Allavena: Andre worked on a new distributed computing algorithm called a Leaf-only-Tree. This is a general-purpose, robust, efficient, gossip-based global state computation protocol (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/05/approx.pdf). He applied this to database range queries. He is currently in sunny Gibraltar working for Partygaming.com.

Darcy Kroeker worked on extending the DTN reference implementation to separate out the control plane, and to use this control plane to implement the Tetherless Communication Architecture.