CNRG PEOPLE

Professor Eytan Modiano

Professor Eytan Modiano  is a member of the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department and 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 Communication Networks for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, iEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and for The International Journal of Satellite Communications. He had served as a 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 Wiopt 2006, IEEE Infocom 2007, and ACM MobiHoc 2007.

 

PostDoc Fellows

Long Le

Hyang-Won Lee

Mehdi Ansari

Moshe Laifenfeld

 

Graduate Students

Guner Celik

Krishna Jagannathan

Matt Johnston

Ryan Kingsbury

Greg Kuperman

Kayi Lee

Mihalis Markakis

Sebastian Neumayer

 

Alumni

 

Postdocs

Dr. Gil Zussman

Assistant Professor at the electrical and computer engineering Department, Columbia University

Former Ph.D Students

Poompat (Tengo) Saengudomlert

 

 

 

Thesis:  “Architectural Study of High-Speed Networks with Optical Bypassing,” August 2002. Currently an assistant professor at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.

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

 

 

 

Thesis: “Dynamic Routing  and Power Allocation in Satellite and Wireless
Networks with Time Varying Channels,“ December 2003.  Currently an assistant professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Southern California.

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

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.

Former Master's Students

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.

Krishna Jagannathan — Thesis: “Efficient Scheduling of Multi-User Multi-Antenna Systems,” August 2006.

Danjie Chen — Thesis:  “Minimum Energy Path Planning for Ad Hoc Networks“, June 2005.

Wajahat Khan - Thesis: Autonomous Routing Algorithms for Networks with Wide-Spread Failures, August, 2008.

Visitors

Alessandro Tarello

Han-You Jeong