Publications

(Note: In my publications, I go by either Thyaga Nandagopal or Thyagarajan Nandagopal.)

Doctoral thesis:

Thyaga Nandagopal, "Scheduling for fairness and minimal response times in wireless data networks", University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2002 - [pdf]

Patents:

I have 32 approved US patents, with several more pending. A current listing of my approved US patents can be found here. My current pending US patent applications are here. I have multiple EU patents and other international patents as well.

Conference and Journal Publications:

I follow the DBLP citation model, with [j..] prefix for journal papers, [c...] prefix for conference papers, [e...] prefix for editorial papers, [b...] for book chapters.

Summary: 12 journal papers, 32 conference publications, 3 editorials, 2 book chapters

2016:

[j12] Yigal Bejerano, Katherine Guo, Thyaga Nandagopal: Light-Weight Feedback Mechanism for WiFi Multicast to Very Large Groups—Experimental Evaluation. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN) 24(6): 3826-3840 (December 2016).

2015:

[c32] Yigal Bejerano, Katherine Guo, Thyaga Nandagopal: Fast Detection of Compact Topology Representation for Wireless Networks. Proceedings of the IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN): October 2015.

2014:

[j11] Berk Birand, Howard Wang, Keren Bergman, Dan Kilper, Thyaga Nandagopal, Gil Zussman: Real-Time Power Control for Dynamic Optical Networks - Algorithms and Experimentation.IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 32(8): 1615-1628 (2014)

[c31] Yigal Bejerano, Jaime Ferragut, Katherine Guo, Varun Gupta, Craig Gutterman, Thyaga Nandagopal, Gil Zussman: Experimental evaluation of a scalable WiFi multicast scheme in the ORBIT testbed. Proceedings of the 2014 Third GENI Research and Educational Experiment Workshop (GREE 2014): March 2014.

2013:

[c30] Yigal Bejerano, Jaime Ferragut, Katherine Guo, Varun Gupta, Craig Gutterman, Thyaga Nandagopal, Gil Zussman: Scalable WiFi multicast services for very large groups. ICNP 2013: 1-12

[c29] Berk Birand, Howard Wang, Keren Bergman, Daniel C. Kilper, Thyaga Nandagopal, Gil Zussman: Real-time power control for dynamic optical networks - Algorithms and experimentation.ICNP 2013: 1-10

[c28] Yadi Ma, Thyaga Nandagopal, Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy, Suman Banerjee: An ensemble of replication and erasure codes for cloud file systems. INFOCOM 2013: 1276-1284

[e3] Thyagarajan Nandagopal: Panel: the evolution of wireless video - technology and applications. MOBICOM 2013: 413-414

2012:

[c27] Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy, Thyaga Nandagopal, Murali S. Kodialam: Frugal storage for cloud file systems. EuroSys 2012: 71-84

[c26] Thyaga Nandagopal, Kyle Guan, Daniel C. Kilper: Energy efficiency and delay performance of data transfer using dynamic optical switching. ICC 2012: 5962-5967

[c25] Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Krishna Puttaswamy Naga: Lowering Inter-datacenter bandwidth costs via bulk data scheduling. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2012): 244-251 (BEST PAPER)

[e2] Thyagarajan Nandagopal: Guest Editorial: Special Section on Outstanding Papers from Mobicom 2011. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (11) 9: 2012.

2011:

[c24] Wai-Kit Sze, Thyaga Nandagopal, Wing Cheong Lau, Murali S. Kodialam: RFID tag counting over lossy wireless channels. WiOpt 2011: 55-61

[e1] Parmesh Ramanathan, Thyaga Nandagopal, Brian Neil Levine (Eds.): Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM 2011, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, September 19-23, 2011. ACM 2011, ISBN 978-1-4503-0492-4

2010:

[c23] Maulik Desai, Thyaga Nandagopal: Coping with link failures in centralized control plane architectures. COMSNETS 2010: 1-10 (BEST PAPER)

[c22] Maulik Desai, Thyaga Nandagopal: Regulating user arrivals at a Mobile IP Home Agent. COMSNETS 2010: 1-10

[c21] Yigal Bejerano, Hyoung-Gyu Choi, Seung-Jae Han, Thyaga Nandagopal: Performance tuning of Infrastructure-Mode wireless LANs. WiOpt 2010: 60-69

2009:

[c20] Seung-Jae Han, Thyaga Nandagopal, Yigal Bejerano, Hyoung-Gyu Choi: Analysis of Spatial Unfairness in Wireless LANs. INFOCOM 2009: 2043-2051

[c19] Murali S. Kodialam, Wing Cheong Lau, Thyaga Nandagopal: Identifying RFID tag categories in linear time. WiOpt 2009: 1-6

2007:

[c18] Murali S. Kodialam, Thyaga Nandagopal, Wing Cheong Lau: Anonymous Tracking Using RFID Tags. INFOCOM 2007: 1217-1225

[c17] Xiaoqiao Meng, Thyaga Nandagopal, Starsky H. Y. Wong, Hao Yang, Songwu Lu: Scheduling Delay-Constrained Data in Wireless Data Networks. WCNC 2007: 4262-4267

2006:

[j10] Xiaoqiao Meng, Thyaga Nandagopal, Li Li, Songwu Lu: Contour maps: Monitoring and diagnosis in sensor networks. Computer Networks 50(15): 2820-2838 (2006)

[c16] Ramachandran Ramjee, Furquan Ansari, Martin Havemann, T. V. Lakshman, Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Krishan K. Sabnani, Thomas Y. C. Woo: Separating control software from routers.COMSWARE 2006

[c15] Murali S. Kodialam, Thyaga Nandagopal: Fast and reliable estimation schemes in RFID systems. MOBICOM 2006: 322-333

2005:

[j9] Kang-Won Lee, Young-Bae Ko, Thyaga Nandagopal: Load mitigation in cellular data networks by peer data sharing over WLAN channels. Computer Networks 47(2): 271-286 (2005)

[j8] Luca Becchetti, Stefano Leonardi, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, Andrea Vitaletti, Suhas N. Diggavi, S. Muthukrishnan, Thyagarajan Nandagopal: Parallel scheduling problems in next generation wireless networks. Networks 45(1): 9-22 (2005)

[j7] Murali S. Kodialam, Thyaga Nandagopal: Characterizing achievable rates in multi-hop wireless mesh networks with orthogonal channels. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 13(4): 868-880 (2005)

[c14] Murali S. Kodialam, Thyaga Nandagopal: Characterizing the capacity region in multi-radio multi-channel wireless mesh networks. MOBICOM 2005: 73-87

2004:

[j6] Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Kang-Won Lee, Jia-Ru Li, Vaduvur Bharghavan: Scalable service differentiation using purely end-to-end mechanisms: features and limitations. Computer Networks 44(6): 813-833 (2004)

[c13] T. V. Lakshman, Thyaga Nandagopal, Ram Ramjee, Krishan Sabnani, Thomas Woo: The SoftRouter Architecture. Third Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-III): November 2004.

[c12] Murali Kodialam, Thyaga Nandagopal: The effect of interference on the capacity of multi-hop wireless networks. International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2004): 2004

2003:

[c11] Young-Bae Ko, Kang-Won Lee, Thyaga Nandagopal: CAPS: A peer data sharing system for load mitigation in cellular data networks. GLOBECOM 2003: 656-660

[c10] Murali S. Kodialam, Thyagarajan Nandagopal: Characterizing achievable rates in multi-hop wireless networks: the joint routing and scheduling problem. MOBICOM 2003: 42-54

2002:

[j5] Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Songwu Lu, Vaduvur Bharghavan: A Unified Architecture for the Design and Evaluation of Wireless Fair Queueing Algorithms. Wireless Networks 8(2-3): 231-247 (2002)

[j4] Prasun Sinha, Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Narayanan Venkitaraman, Raghupathy Sivakumar, Vaduvur Bharghavan: WTCP: A Reliable Transport Protocol for Wireless Wide-Area Networks.Wireless Networks 8(2-3): 301-316 (2002)

[c9] Luca Becchetti, Suhas N. Diggavi, Stefano Leonardi, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, S. Muthukrishnan, Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Andrea Vitaletti: Parallel scheduling problems in next generation wireless networks. SPAA 2002: 238-247

[b2] Thyaga Nandagopal: "Scheduling for fairness and minimal response times in wireless data networks", Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2002 - [pdf]

[b1] Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Xia Gao: Fair scheduling in wireless packet data networks. Handbook of Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing (John Wiley and Sons): January 2002

2001:

[j3] Xia Gao, Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Vaduvur Bharghavan: On improving the performance of utility-based wireless fair scheduling through a combination of adaptive FEC and ARQ. J. High Speed Networks 10(1): 19-36 (2001)

[c8] Xia Gao, Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Vaduvur Bharghavan: Achieving application level fairness through utility-based wireless fair scheduling. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2001): 3257 - 3261

2000:

[j2] Songwu Lu, Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Vaduvur Bharghavan: Design and analysis of an algorithm for fair service in error-prone wireless channels. Wireless Networks 6(4): 323-343 (2000)

[c7] Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Kang-Won Lee, Jia-Ru Li, Vaduvur Bharghavan: Scalable service differentiation using purely end-to-end mechanisms. Eighth International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQOS 2000): 31-41

[c6] Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Narayanan Venkitaraman, Raghupathy Sivakumar, Vaduvur Bharghavan: Relative Delay Differentiation and Delay Class Adaptation in Core-Stateless Networks.INFOCOM 2000: 421-430

[c5] Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Tae-eun Kim, Xia Gao, Vaduvur Bharghavan: Achieving MAC layer fairness in wireless packet networks. MOBICOM 2000: 87-98

1999:

[j1] Vaduvur Bharghavan, Songwu Lu, Thyaga Nandagopal: Fair queuing in wireless networks: issues and approaches. IEEE Personal Commun. 6(1): 44-53 (1999)

[c4] Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Tae-eun Kim, Prasun Sinha, Vaduvur Bharghavan: Service differentiation through end-to-end rate control in low bandwidth wireless packet networks. International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MoMUC) 1999: 211-220

[c3] Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Songwu Lu, Vaduvur Bharghavan: A Unified Architecture for the Design and Evaluation of Wireless Fair Queueing Algorithms. MOBICOM 1999: 132-142

[c2] Prasun Sinha, Narayanan Venkitaraman, Thyaga Nandagopal, Raghupathy Sivakumar, Vaduvur Bharghavan: A wireless transmission control protocol for CDPD. WCNC 1999: 953-957

1998:

[c1] Songwu Lu, Thyagarajan Nandagopal, Vaduvur Bharghavan: A Wireless Fair Service Algorithm for Packet Cellular Networks. MOBICOM 1998: 10-20