Joshua Robinson Ph.D.

Joshua is currently a Software Engineer at Google in Mountain View, CA. Joshua received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University in May 2009, having also previously obtained MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering at Rice. He was a member of the Rice Networks Group, advised by Dr. Edward Knightly and co-advised by Dr. Ram Swaminathan at HP Labs.

His main research interests are in algorithms, network traffic classification, information retrieval, wireless networks, network measurements, and combinatorial optimization. While at Rice, he worked with the TFA-Wireless network. Joshua was a member of the TPC for IMC 2009.

Publications

• G. Ranjan, R. Keralapura, S. Ranjan, J. Robinson, and Z. Zhang, "Mapping Cellular Data Service Network Infrastructure via Geo-intent Inference," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2011 Mini-Conference, Shanghai, China, April 2011.
• J. Robinson, M. Singh, R. Swaminathan, and E. Knightly,"Deploying Mesh Nodes under Non-Uniform Propagation," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, March 2010.
• J. Robinson, R. Swaminathan, and E. Knightly, "Assessment of Urban-Scale Wireless Networks with a Small Number of Measurements," Proceedings of ACM MobiCom 2008, San Francisco, CA, September 2008. (Best Paper Award Winner)
• J. Robinson, M. Uysal, R. Swaminathan, and E. Knightly, "Adding Capacity Points to a Wireless Mesh Network Using Local Search," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix, AZ, April 2008.
• J. Robinson and E. Knightly, "A Performance Study of Deployment Factors in Wireless Mesh Networks," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, AK, May 2007.
• J. Camp, J. Robinson, C. Steger, and E. Knightly, "Measurement Driven Deployment of a Two-Tier Urban Mesh Access Network," Proceedings of ACM MobiSys 2006, Uppsala, Sweden, June 2006.
• J. Robinson, K. Papagiannaki, C. Diot, X. Guo, and L. Krishnamurthy, "Experimenting with a Multi-Radio Mesh Networking Testbed," 1^st Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements (Winmee), Riva del Garda, Italy, April 2005.

Links

Calculating the entropy of bytes in a file
LibPCAP Offline Parsing Example in C
Knapsack dynamic programming C++ implementation
Floyd-Warshall C++ implementation
802.11 code description in NS-2.28
Simulating 802.11b with NS-2.27

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