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BIOGRAPHY

Kaushik Roy Chowdhury is a PhD candidate in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a Research Assistant under Prof. Akyildiz at the Broadband Wireless Networking (BWN) Laboratory, since Summer 2006. His PhD thesis is on the design of Communication Protocols for Wireless Cognitive Radio Ad-hoc Networks. He completed his MS in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati in 2006. His master’s degree dissertation, advised by Prof. Agrawal, was awarded the Outstanding Thesis award by the ECECS department.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

                               

PUBLICATIONS                                             

    JOURNALS & MAGAZINES

1. • I. F. Akyildiz, W-Y. Lee, and K. R. Chowdhury, "Spectrum Management in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Networks Magazine-Special Issue on Networking over Multi-Hop Cognitive Networks, to appear, 2nd half of 2009.
   

2. • I. F. Akyildiz, W-Y. Lee, and K. R. Chowdhury, "CRAHNs: Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks," Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal, to appear, 2009.
   

3. • C. Cormio and K. R. Chowdhury, "A survey on MAC Protocols for Cognitive Radio Networks," Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal, to appear, 2009.
   

4. • K. R. Chowdhury and I. F. Akyildiz, "Cognitive Wireless Mesh Networks with Dynamic Spectrum Access," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol.26, no.1, pp. 168-181, January 2008.
   

5. • K. R. Chowdhury, P. Chanda, D. P. Agrawal, and Q. A. Zeng, "Channel Allocation and Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks," Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 307-321, March 2009.
   

6. • I. F. Akyildiz, T. Melodia, and K. R. Chowdhury, "Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: Applications and Testbeds," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 96, no. 10, pp. 1588-1605, October 2008.
   

7. • I. F. Akyildiz, T. Melodia, and K. R. Chowdhury, "A Survey on Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks," Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, vol.51, no.4, pp. 921-960, March 2007.
   

8. • I. F. Akyildiz, T. Melodia, and K. R. Chowdhury, "Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: A Survey," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol.14, no.6, pp. 32-39, December 2007.
   

9. • T. Banerjee, K. R. Chowdhury, and D. P. Agrawal, "Using Polynomial Regression for Data Representation in Wireless Sensor Networks," Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, to appear, vol.14, no.6, pp. 32-39, December 2007.
   

10. • R. Biswas, K. R. Chowdhury, and D. P. Agrawal, "Attribute Allocation and Retrieval Scheme for Large Scale Sensor Networks," Springer Intl. Journal of Wireless Information Networks, vol.13, no.4, October 2007.
    

11. • K. R. Chowdhury, M. D. Felice, and L. Bononi, "Fading and Interference Aware Cross-layer Multi-radio Multi-channel Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks," , submitted June 2008, revised and re-submitted, December 2008.
    

12. • K. R. Chowdhury, and M. D. Felice, "SEARCH: A Routing Protocol for Mobile Cognitive Radio Ad-hoc Networks," submitted, December 2008.
    

     BOOK CHAPTERS

1. • W-Y. Lee, K. R. Chowdhury and M. C. Vuran, "Spectrum Sensing Algorithms for Cognitive Radio Networks," Cognitive Radio Networks," Y. Xiao, and F. Hu, Ed., Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, 2008.
   

2. • T. Melodia and K. R. Chowdhury, "Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: Challenges and Solutions," invited book chapter in Broadband Mobile Multimedia: Techniques and Applications, Y. Zhang, S. Mao, L. T. Yang, and T. M. Chen, Eds. Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2007.
   

    CONFERENCES

1. • K. R. Chowdhury and I. F. Akyildiz, "Interferer Classification, Channel Selection and Transmission Adaptation for Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proc. of IEEE ICC, to appear, Dresden, Germany, June 2009.
   

2. • K. R. Chowdhury, M. D. Felice, and I. F. Akyildiz, "TP-CRAHN: A Transport Protocol for Cognitive Radio Ad-hoc Networks," in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, to appear, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.
   

3. • K. R. Chowdhury and I. F. Akyildiz, "CRAHNS: Cognitive Radio Ad-hoc Networks," poster presentation, Georgia Tech Broadband Institute, October 2008.
   

4. • N. Nandiraju, H. Gossain, D. Cavalcanti, K. R. Chowdhury, and D. P. Agrawal, "Achieving Fairness in Wireless LANs by Enhanced IEEE 802.11 DCF," in Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Wireless and Mobile Computation, Networking and Comm., (WiMob),Montreal, Canada, June 2006.
   

5. • K. R. Chowdhury, N. Nandiraju, D. Cavalcanti, and D. P. Agrawal, "CMAC-A Multi-Channel Energy Efficient MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks," Proc. of IEEE Wireless Comm. and Networking Conf. (WCNC), Las Vegas, USA, April 2006.
   

6. • K. R. Chowdhury, P.Chanda, D. P. Agrawal, and Q. A. Zeng, "DCA-A Distributed Channel Allocation Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks," Proc. of IEEE Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Comm. Symp. (PIMRC), Berlin, Germany, September 2005.
   

7. • N. Nandiraju, K. R. Chowdhury, and D. P. Agrawal, "Investigation of MAC and Network Layer Fairness for Multi-hop Ad-hoc Networks," Proc. of Opnetworks, Wash. D.C, August 2005.
   

8. • R. Biswas, K. R. Chowdhury, and D. P. Agrawal, "Attribute Allocation and Retrieval Scheme for Large Scale Sensor Networks," Proc. of VLDB Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks, Trondheim, Norway, August 2005.
   

9. • R. Biswas, K. R. Chowdhury, and D. P. Agrawal, "Optimal Data-centric Attribute Allocation and Retrieval (DCAAR) Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks," Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Wash. D.C, November 2005.
   

10. • T. Banerjee, K. R. Chowdhury, and D. P. Agrawal, "Tree Based Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks Using Polynomial Regression," Proc. of Conf. on Information Fusion, Philadelphia, July 2005.
    

11. • T. Banerjee, K. R. Chowdhury, and D. P. Agrawal, "Distributed Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks by Regression Based Compression," Proc. of the Wkshp. on RPMSN, in conjunction with IEEE MASS, Wash. D.C, November 2005.
    

ACADEMIC                                                                                                                                Top

    HONORS & AWARDS

1. • Awarded the Outstanding Master’s Thesis award by the ECECS department, University of Cincinnati
   

2. • Recipient of the University Grant Scholarship from the University of Cincinnati for the academic  years 2003 - 2006
   

3. • Ranked 3rd in the BE final year examinations at VJTI, securing a First Class with distinction
   

4. • Ranked 1st in the Electrical Department at VJTI in the first year of UG study
   

5. • Ranked 1st in secondary school examination at Dominic Savio high school, Mumbai, India
   

   RELEVANT COURSE-WORK (MS & PhD)

   

1. • Networking /Communication:
   

Comp. Networking, Adv. Wireless & Mobile Networking, Wireless Communication, Sensor  

Networks, Cognitive Radios

1. • Signal Processing:
   

Digital Signal Processing, Signal Detection & Estimation

1. • Algorithms:
   

Advanced Algorithms, Graph & Network Algorithms, Internet & Web Algorithms

1. • Mathematical:               
   

Random Processes, Performance Evaluation, Probability & Algorithms

1. • Computer Science:
   

AI, Distributed AI, Machine Learning, Computer Security

   

           

SERVICES                                                                                                                                  Top

Reviewer for IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking , IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Trans. on Comm., IEEE Comm. Magazine, IEEE Network, IEEE Comm. Letters, Computer Networks (Elsevier), Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), Wireless Comm. and Mobile Computing (Wiley), IEEE INFOCOM, ACM Mobihoc, IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE VTC, IEEE WCNC.

            

 LINKS                                                                                                                                       Top

1. • Research Advice:
   

         How to give a bad (good) talk, pointers from David Messerschmitt

         You and Your Research, talk by Richard Hamming

1. • Professional Societies:
   

         IEEE - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

         ACM - Association for the Computing Machinery

1. • Personal:
   

         My collection of original short stories