Joshua Robinson

Office Phone: 408-215-4243
Email: jrobinson -at- narus.com
or joshua.robinson -at- gmail.com
New Homepage: JoshuaRobinson.net

Curriculum Vitae

Joshua is a member of the technical staff at Narus in Sunnyvale, CA. Joshua received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University in May 2009, having also previously received MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering at Rice. He was a member of the Rice Networks Group, advised by Prof. Edward Knightly and co-advised by Ram Swaminathan at HP Labs.

His main research interests are in wireless network design and protocols, network measurements, and combinatorial optimization. He is currently working with the TFA-Wireless network. Previously, he has studied multi-hop CSMA MAC protocols, and been involved with the WARP Project.

Publications

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
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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