I’ve decided it will be good for me if I can sit down once a week and try to write about a problem I had to solve that week, either in my daily life or working on a project.

The biggest problem for this week was actually making myself sit down and write something on here.  I don’t think that would be very interesting to readers or my future self so I’ll fore go the discussion of that.

I think the first thing I should do is explain my background.  I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Carolina (USC) working in the ARENA for Research on Emerging Networks and Applications (ARENA) lab.  Here I focus on developing new wireless network protocols in an endless quest to publish papers.  I have been with Dr. Srihari Nelakuditi since about 2004, when he hired me as an undergraduate researcher.  We have presented multiple papers together.  One was presented at MobiCom and can be found in the Mobile Computer Communications Review (MCCR), it is on security in Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks (MANETs).  Another notable paper was presented at the WiMesh workshop 2008 at SECON, it is not yet available online and focused on bit-rate selection in oppotunistic routing.  The second paper was also the focus of my Master’s Thesis.

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