http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~badri/index.html
Home Page of Badrinath B. R.

Badri with the Best Teacher Award
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of
Computer Science
at Rutgers University .
I am also
a member and research director of mobile computing at
WINLAB
here at Rutgers.
e-mail: badri@cs.rutgers.edu
Phone:908-445-2082, Fax: 908-445-0537
Address: Dept. of Computer Science, New Brunswick
New Jersey, 08903
Awards
Education
Research
Welcome to the world of Badri's Research .
My research interest is primarily in the area of
Mobile Wireless Computing.
I am part of the
Dataman project whose goal is to design
information services for wireless and mobile users. The
primary research issues being investigated include:
- Mobility
As hosts move, environment changes. How should the network
handle moving hosts? How should the mobile host react to
change in environment?
- Wireless
The ``thin" pipe
"fat" pipe problem.
Wireless link has lower bandwidth ("thinner") than
the fixed network. How should applications be structured to handle
a pipe made of fixed and wireless links.
- Energy
Battery is a consumable resource.
How to extend battery life? Software approaches and
hardware approaches to save energy.
Specific projects include:
- Environment awareness and client server adaptation
Composing client and server modules for easy
adaptation and migration. Functionality caching support.
Event detection and handling mechanism
- Protocols for wireless/wireline networks
Considering wireless parameters such as cost,
packet-oriented vs connection-oriented, signal strength,
bandwidth, asymmetric links,
multi-hop links, and long delay in designing end-to-end protocols
- Disconnected operation for databases
Answering queries in disconnected mode. Hoarding data by issuing
queries. Integrating data and concurrency control issues.
Local caching issues.
- Designing ISPN with mobile hosts
Providing QoS for mobile hosts.
As part of our research we have developed
multicasting protocol for mobile hosts, designed
distributed algorithms for systems with mobile hosts,
developed an indirect model for protocols so that it works
better in wireless/wireline networks, developed data organization
and data dissemination methods for broadcast data, and
currently investigating operating system support
for mobile hosts.
You can browse through copies of my papers from the
DataMan home page .
This page contains links to details of exciting research projects of
the Dataman effort here at Rutgers.
Electronic copies of my papers can also be obtained via
anonymous ftp from paul.rutgers.edu in the directory pub/badri.
Courses Taught
My office is located on the third floor of CORE building on Busch campus at Rutgers University .
You can get to my room by following these Directions .
If you had a laptop (running Mobile-IP) and were clicking on the above link, it is possible to
get location-dependent directions.
My links
Inktomi