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Suman Banerjee
David J. DeWitt Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Affiliate)
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Hotlines
    Email: suman[AT]cs.wisc.edu
    Phone: +1 (608) 262 7387
    Fax: +1 (608) 262-9777
    Postal Mail:
    1210 West Dayton St.
    Department of Computer Sciences
    University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA

Publications | Research | Teaching | Professional Activities
Curriculum vitae (Sept 2011): pdf

Suman Banerjee received his PhD in Computer Science from University of Maryland in 2003 and joined the faculty of University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the winner of the ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award in 2013 (awarded for early career achievements in the field of mobile computing and wireless networking). He is currently serving as the chair of ACM SIGMOBILE (since July 2013). He received an NSF Career Award in 2008.

Research

I lead the WIsconsin WIreless and NetworkinG Systems (WiNGS) Laboratory. Research in the WiNGS lab is conducted in the areas of networking and distributed systems with a primary focus on wireless and mobile networking. Also feel free to browse some of our recent publications for additional information.
A significant focus of my current research is in mobile computing and wireless networking.

Select recent research projects (More detailed research snapshot --- October 2011):

Airshark: Detecting non-WiFi interferers (Bluetooth, Microwave ovens, Game Controllers, ZigBee, Analog phones, etc.) by only using commodity WiFi Cards. [IMC 2011], [YouTube video]
Media coverage: Network World, Slashdot, CRA Highlight of the week, PC Magazine, The Register, BoingBoing
PIE: mapping WiFi-WiFi interference in enterprise WLANs in real-time. [NSDI 2011], [YouTube video]
WiScape: monitoring performance of wide-area cellular networks using client assistance (data collected for more than 2 years covering more than 60 sq. miles in and around Madison, and also across various parts of the US midwest). [IMC 2011], [Datasets coming soon]
WiRover: providing high bandwidth Internet connectivity to moving vehicles (public buses, ambulances, etc.) by exploiting network diversity and aggregation.
Media coverage: Wisconsin State Journal, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel WTN News
This work is also the grand prize winner of the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Competition 2011.
Interested in trialing WiRover for your application? (Madison Metro Transit and Van Galder, two local bus operators are doing this currently.) Contact Prof. Suman Banerjee.
Apex: provides an improved media streaming experience over wireless channels by making the PHY layer "value-aware," i.e., by making the PHY layer understand the relative value of different bits to the application. [Sigcomm 2010]

Some prior projects: CENTAUR | Modeling partial overlap | NICE overlay multicast

Description of my research work (April 2004)

Tools/Software: NetDyn | SONIC simulator | myns (P2P) simulator | NICE appl. layer multicast + PRM enhancements (freeBSD)

Teaching

Networking qualifying exam reading list: some of the paper links might be broken but will be fixed soon.

Professional Activities

Program chair, ACM CellNet 2013: (Deadline: March 27, 2013)
Program chair, IEEE SECON, 2012: Call for papers (Deadline December 8, 2011)
Program chair, ACM MobiCom, 2010.
Program chair, ACM MobiHeld, 2009.
Program chair, WiMESH, Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks, 2008.
Program chair, DIALM-POMC Workshop, 2005: Call for papers (Deadline extended to June 5, 2005)
Students poster and SRC chair, ACM MobiCom, 2009.
Student poster and demo chair, IEEE SECON, 2009.
Workshops chair, ACM Sigcomm, 2008.
Research demo chair, ACM MobiCom, 2007.
Tutorial chair, ACM Sigmetrics, 2007.
Workshops Chair, ACM MobiCom, 2005: List of Workshops
Workshops Chair, Wireless Internet Conference (WICON), 2006.
PC Member, ACM MobiCom, 2005-2010, 2012.
PC Member, ACM Sigcomm, 2009.
PC Member, ACM MobiSys, 2009.
PC Member, ACM Sigmetrics, 2007-2009.
PC Member, IEEE Infocom 2005, 2007-2009.
PC Member, ACM WiSec 2008-2010.
PC Member, ACM MobiHoc, 2006.
PC Member, IEEE SECON: IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, 2004-2006.
PC Member, CoNEXT: Conference on Future Networking Technologies, 2006.
PC Member, ACM WinTECH: Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, 2007-2009.
PC Member, ACM MobiVirt: The Workshop on Virtualization in Mobile Computing, 2008.
PC Member, PAM: Workshop on Passive and Active Measurements, 2005, 2007.
PC Member, ICDCS: The 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2006.
PC Member, WiTMeMo'05: International Workshop on Wireless Traffic Measurements and Modeling, 2005.
PC Member, HiPC'04: International Conference on High Performance Computing, 2004.
PC Member, ICPP'04: International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2004.

Last updated Oct 2003

-- Suman