Professor
Eytan Modiano is a member of the Aeronautics and Astronautics
Department, the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, and the Operations Research Center at MIT. From 1993 to 1999 he
was with the Communications Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he
designed communication protocols for satellite, wireless, and optical
networks and was the project leader for MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Next
Generation Internet (NGI) project. He was a Naval Research Laboratory
Fellow between 1987 and 1992 and a National Research Council Post
Doctoral Fellow during 1992-1993 while he was conducting research on
security and performance issues in distributed network protocols.
Professor Modiano received his B.S. degree in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Connecticut at
Storrs in 1986 and his M.S. and PhD degrees, both in Electrical
Engineering, from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, in 1989
and 1992 respectively.
Professor Modiano's research is on communication networks and protocols with application to satellite, wireless, and optical networks. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He had served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and as guest editor for IEEE JSAC special issue on WDM network architectures; the Computer Networks Journal special issue on Broadband Internet Access; the Journal of Communications and Networks special issue on Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks; and for IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology special issue on Optical Networks. He was the Technical Program co-chair for IEEE Wiopt 2006, IEEE Infocom 2007, and ACM MobiHoc 2007.
Matt Johnston
Nathan Jones
Greg Kuperman
Karim Liman-Tinguiri
Mihalis Markakis
Sebastian Neumayer
Marzieh Parandehgheibi
Kyu Seob Kim
Postdocs
Hyang-Won Lee, Assistant Professor, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea.
Krishna Jagannathan, Assistant Professor, Indian Istitute of Technology, Madras, India.
Dr. Gil Zussman, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Columbia University.
Dr. Long Le, Assistant Professor at INRS, Montreal, Canada.
Poompat (Tengo) Saengudomlert, Assistant Professor, Asia Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.
Thesis: “Architectural Study of High-Speed Networks with
Optical Bypassing,” August 2002.
Alvin Fu — Thesis: “Energy Allocation for communication Satellites,”
January 2003. (co-advised with John Tsitsiklis). Currently at
Fidelity Investments.
Anand Ganti — Thesis: “Transmission Scheduling for satellite and wireless Systems,” January 2003. (co-advised with John Tsitsiklis). Currently a research scientist at Sandia National Labs.
Michael Neely, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California.
Thesis: “Dynamic Routing and Power Allocation in Satellite and Wireless
Networks with Time Varying Channels,“ December 2003.
Chunmei Liu — Thesis: “Cross-Layer Protocol Interactions in Heterogeneous Data Networks,” December 2004. Currently a research scientist at Sprint Labs.
Li Wei Chen — Thesis: “Dynamic Resource Allocation in WDM Networks with Optical Bypass and Waveband Switching,” August 2005. Currenltly at Venu Co. as member of technical staff.
Andrew Brzezinski
Thesis: " Dynamic Reconfiguration and Routing in IP-over-WDM Networks with stochastic Traffic,” June 2007. Currently at
Fidelity Investments.
Jun Sun
Thesis: “Dynamic Channel Allocation for Satellite Networks,” June 2007. Currently, Member of Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Murtaza Zafer
Thesis: “Energy Efficient Transmission Scheduling with Quality of Service Constraints,” June 2007. Currently member of Technical Staff at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.
Anand Srinivas
Thesis: Architectures and Algorithms for Network Self Organization in Mobile Wireless Networks,” June 2007. Currently member of technical staff at Airvana Inc.
Emily Craparo
Thesis: "Cooperative Exploration Under Communication Constraints," August, 2008. Currently on the faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Krishna Jagannathan
Thesis: “Asymptotic Performance of Queue Length Based Network Control Policies,” August 2010.
Kayi Lee,
Thesis: “Survivability in Layered Networks,” January 2011.
Brant, Dmitry — Thesis: "Threshold Schemes for Optical Flow Switching," June, 1999.
Melahn Parker — Thesis: “Broadband Satellite Constellation Design and Evaluation,” June 2001.
(co-advised with Charles Boppe and Paul Cefola)
Tatsuki Kashitani — Thesis: “Development and Application of an Analysis Methodology for Satellite Broadband Network Architectures,” June, 2002. (co-advised with Charles Boppe and Paul Cefola).
Hungjen Wang — Thesis: “Routing Policy on Robustness in WDM Optical Networks,” January 2002.
Ashwinder Ahluwalia - Thesis: “Distributed Construction of Energy Efficient Ad Hoc Wireless Broadcast Trees,” January 2002.
Jun Sun — Thesis: “Routing and Capacity provisioning for Low Earth Orbit satellite constellations with both circuit and packet traffic,” August, 2002.
Dan Kan — Thesis: “Design of Survivable IP-over-WDM Networks: Providing Protection and Restoration at the Electronic Layer,” June 2003.
Murtaza Zafer — Thesis: “Blocking probability analysis and channel assignment algorithms for wireless networks,” August 2003.
Sonia Jain — Thesis: “Enhancing the Performance of TCP over Satellite Links,” June, 2003.
Anand Srinivas — Thesis: “Reliability and Energy Efficiency in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” June, 2004.
Amir Khandani — Thesis: “Cooperative Routing in Wireless Networks,” June, 2004.
Danjie Chen — Thesis: “Minimum Energy Path Planning for Ad Hoc Networks“, June 2005.
Krishna Jagannathan — Thesis: “Efficient Scheduling of Multi-User Multi-Antenna Systems,” August 2006.
Wajahat Khan - Thesis: Autonomous Routing Algorithms for Networks with Wide-Spread Failures, August, 2008.
Guner Celik, “Medium Access Schemes for Ultra-wideband Networks,” August 2007.
Ryan Kingsbury, “Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks for Oceanic Aircraft Communications,” August 2009.
Matt Johnston, “A Robust Optimization Approach to Network Design,” August 2010
Alessandro Tarello
Han-You Jeong
