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Select and Recent Publications

(ACM/IEEE/USENIX copyrights where applicable)

"There are two classes of people, those who do and those who take credit. My advice is to be a member of the first class; there is much less competition"
-Dwight Morrow

Mobikit: A Toolkit for Adaptive Cellular Multimedia
R. Chakravorty
In preparation

MobiCare: A Programmable Service Architecture for Mobile Medical Care
R. Chakravorty
Proceedings of UbiCare 2006: The First Workshop on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Healthcare, March 2006

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MobiStream: Error-Resilient Video Streaming in Wireless WANs using Virtual Channels
R. Chakravorty
Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2006, April 2006

[PDF] (E-mail me for CDMA traces and H.264 video codec used in this paper!)

MoB: A Mobile Bazaar for Wide-area Wireless Services
R. Chakravorty, S. Agarwal, S. Banerjee, I. Pratt
Proceedings of ACM Mobicom 2005, September 2005.

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Exploiting Diversity to Enhance Multimedia Streaming Over Cellular Links
J. Chesterfield, R. Chakravorty, I. Pratt, S. Banerjee, P. Rodriguez
Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2005, March 2005.

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Performance Optimizations for Wireless Wide-Area Networks: Comparative Study and Experimental Evaluation
R. Chakravorty, S. Banerjee, P. Rodriguez, J. Chesterfield, I. Pratt
Proceedings of ACM Mobicom 2004, Sep. 2004.

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Optimizing Web Delivery over Wireless Links: Design, Implementation and Experiences
R. Chakravorty, A. Clark and I. Pratt
IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC), Special issue on Intelligent Services and Applications for Next Generation Networks, 2005.
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Using TCP Flow Aggregation to Enhance Data Experience of Cellular Wireless Users
R. Chakravorty, S. Katti, J. Crowcroft and I. Pratt
IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC), Special Issue on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2005.
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MAR: A Commuter Router Infrastructure for the Mobile Internet
P. Rodriguez, R. Chakravorty, J. Chesterfield, I. Pratt, S. Banerjee
Proceedings of ACM Mobisys 2004, June 2004.
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Practical Experience with Wireless Networks Integration using Mobile IPv6
R. Chakravorty, P. Vidales, K. Subramanian, I. Pratt, J. Crowcroft
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (ACM CCR), Vol. 3, No. 4, October 2003. (from top ACM Mobicom 2003 posters)
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Performance Issues with Vertical Handovers: Experiences from GPRS Cellular and WLAN hot-spots Integration
R. Chakravorty, P. Vidales, K. Subramanian, I. Pratt, J. Crowcroft
Proceedings of the IEEE PerCom 2004, March 2004.
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Flow Aggregation for Enhanced TCP over Wide Area Wireless
R. Chakravorty, S. Katti, I. Pratt and J. Crowcroft
Proceedings of the IEEE Infocom 2003, April 2003.
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GPRSWeb: Optimising the Web for GPRS Links
R. Chakravorty, A. Clark and I. Pratt
Proceedings of ACM Mobisys 2003, March 2003.
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A Framework for Dynamic SLA-based QoS Control for UMTS
R. Chakravorty, M. D'Arienzo, I. Pratt and J. Crowcroft
IEEE Wireless Communications, Special Issue on Merging IP and Wireless Networks, Vol. 10, No. 5, October 2003.
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Performance Issues with General Packet Radio Service
R. Chakravorty and I. Pratt
Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), Special Issue on Evolving from 3G deployment to 4G definition, Vol. 4, No. 2, December 2002.
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Practical Experience with HTTP and TCP over GPRS
R. Chakravorty and I. Pratt
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (ACM CCR), Vol. 7, No. 1, January 2003.
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