I graduated in May 2007 from Penn State with a B.S. in Computer Science. I started as a graduate student here at Princeton in Computer Science in the fall of 2007. In general I'm interested in networking and distributed systems. More specifically I'm interested fault detection, tolerance, and masking, as well as distributed system profiling.
In Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks, vehicles have a limited connection time when passing a wireless access point. One significant source of overhead is the time required for acquiring an IP address via DHCP. We reduce the overhead penalty for obtaining an IP address to under one-tenth of a second without modifying either DHCP or AP software, significantly improving efficiency, reducing latency, and increasing vehicle connectivity.[pdf]
My undergraduate Thesis involved implementing and evaluating single and simplified multi class overload controls for SIP servers, which are mainly used for signaling in VoIP. Single class overload controls can reduce call setup when combined with retransmission suppression. Simplified multi class overload controls can increase the call throughput at the server without retransmission suppression and can dramatically reduce the call latency with retransmission suppression.[pdf]
