Research

My research is focused on Multihop Wireless Networks. Specifically, I am interested in looking at ways to improve the reliability and performance of 802.11 and 802.15.4 based multi-hop networks.

Projects

• Stanford Wireless Access Network (SWAN) The Stanford Wireless Access Network (SWAN) project aims to study and implement existing techniques for setting up mesh networks and research into extending those techniques for improved performance. Experiments have shown that although current protocols are able to form routes and route data in the network, the performance falls below what would be expected of a production network. Especially with multiple streams active, delivery reliability and performance are unacceptable for an office environment. Further, experiments on SWAN also show that existing rate selection algorithms fail miserably in mesh networks. A lot of the times, self interference can lead to bad link estimates and cause transmitters to switch to the lowest transmission rate, thus wasting valuable channel time and reducing throughput. The SWAN project conducts research into improving routing, link estimation and adaptive transmit parameter selection for creating a production class wireless mesh network.

• Stanford Wireless Analysis Tool (SWAT) SWAT is an open source Wireless measurement tool that runs experiments on user’s testbed, analyzes several properties of the network and generates a report on the analysis. Users can configure the experiments to their needs. You can download it from the SWAT website.

• The MNet Architecture The MNet architecture explores how to architecturally improve sensor networking. The core principle of the architecture is to minimize the energy cost of diagnosing network behavior, transforming the typical “black box” embedded sensornet to a well-understood and transparent system that is easy to optimize, manage, and deploy.

Publications

• The Case for a Network Protocol Isolation Layer
  Jung Il Choi, Maria Kazandjieva, Mayank Jain, and Philip Levis
  To appear in Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2009
  

• Visibility: A New Metric for Protocol Design slides pdf
  Megan Wachs, Jung Il Choi, Jung Woo Lee, Kannan Srinivasan, Zhe Chen, Mayank Jain and Philip Levis
  In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2007
  

Workshops and Demos

• SWAT: Fingerprinting Your Wireless Network
  Kannan Srinivasan, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Jung Il Choi, Edward S Kim, Mayank Jain, Philip Levis
  Demonstration at SIGCOMM, 2009
  

• SWAT: Know Your Network
  Kannan Srinivasan, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Mayank Jain, Edward S Kim and Philip Levis
  Demonstration at the Eighth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2009
  

• SWAT: Enabling Wireless Network Measurements pdf website
  Kannan Srinivasan, Maria A. Kazandjieva, Mayank Jain, Edward Kim, Philip Levis
  Demonstration at the Sixth ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2008
  

Reports

• Inverting Wireless Collision Avoidance pdf
  Jung Il Choi, Mayank Jain, Maria A. Kazandjieva, and Philip Levis
  Technical Report SING-09-00
  

• PRR Is Not Enough pdf
  Maria A. Kazandjieva, Mayank Jain, Kannan Srinivasan, and Philip Levis
  Technical Report SING-08-01
  

Publications in Optical Networks

Before entering the wireless domain, I was involved with research in Optical Networks.

• A Novel Technique for Denial of Service Identification in Optical Access Networks
  Mayank Jain, She-Hwa Yen, Saurav Das, L.G. Kazovsky
  Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008
  

• MAWG: Multicasting Arrayed Waveguide Grating for WDM-PON Applications
  Saurav Das, B. Grek, J. Sun, Mayank Jain, L.G. Kazovsky
  Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008
  

• Optical Burst Transport: A Technology for the WDM Metro Ring Networks
  Jaedon Kim, Jinwoo Cho, S. Das, D. Gutierrez, Mayank Jain, Ching-Fong Su, R. Rabbat, T. Hamada, L.G. Kazovsky
  Journal of Lightwave Technology, Volume 25, Issue 1, Jan. 2007 Page(s):93 - 102
  

• Demonstration of 2.5 Gbps Optical Burst Switched WDM Rings Network
  Jaedon Kim, Jinwoo Cho, Mayank Jain, David Gutierrez, L.G. Kazovsky, Ching-Fong Su, R. Rabbat, T. Hamada
  Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006