I am a PhD candidate in the Computer Science department at the University of Wisconsin. I work on improving wireless connectivity and performance, especially in enterprise settings. I believe that the inherent centralization in enterprise WLANs can be leveraged to enable high performance, predictable and manageable wireless networks. I recently received a IBM Phd fellowship.

Contact
Computer Sciences Department, #7382
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1210 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706
Email: viveks AT cs.wisc.edu

1. CENTAUR: Realizing the Full Potential of Centralized WLANs through a Hybrid Data Path. Vivek Shrivastava, Nabeel Ahmed, Shravan Rayanchu, Suman Banerjee, S. Keshav, Konstantina Papagiannaki, and Arunesh Mishra. ACM Mobicom, September 2009. ( PDF) Best paper award at Mobicom 2009 !
2. 802.11n Under the Microscope. Vivek Shrivastava, Shravan Rayanchu, Jongwoon Yoonj, Suman Banerjee. In Proc. ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference 2008. ( PDF)
3. A Measurement Study of a Commercial-grade Urban WiFi Mesh. Vladimir Brik, Shravan Rayanchu, Sharad Saha, Sayandeep Sen, Vivek Shrivastava, Suman Banerjee. In Proc. ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference 2008. ( PDF)
4. Understanding the Limitations of Transmit Power Control for Indoor WLANs. Vivek Shrivastava, Dheeraj Agrawal, Arunesh Mishra, Suman Banerjee, Tamer Nadeem. In Proc. ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference 2007. ( PDF)
5. Interference Mitigation in WLANs with Speculative Scheduling (short paper). Nabeel Ahmed, Vivek Shrivastava, Arunesh Mishra, Suman Banerjee, Srinivasan Keshav, Dina Papagiannaki. In Proc. of ACM Mobicom 2007. ( PDF)
6. Towards an Architecture for Efficient Spectrum Slicing. Suman Banerjee, Arunesh Mishra, Vladimir Brik, Vivek Shrivastava, and Victor Bahl. In Proc. of IEEE HotMobile, 2007. ( PDF)
7. Load Balancing Large Scale RFID Systems. Quenfeng Dong, Ashutosh Shukla, Vivek Shrivastava, Dheeraj Agrawal, Suman Banerjee and Kaushik Kar. In Proc. of IEEE Infocom Minisymposium, 2007. ( PDF)
8. On the (In)feasibility of Fine Grained Power Control. Vivek Shrivastava, Dheeraj Agrawal, Arunesh Mishra, Suman Banerjee, and Tamer Nadeem. ACM Mobicom SRC, September 2006.( PDF) First Prize in Student Research Competition
9. Distributed Channel Management in Uncoordinated Wireless Environments. Arunesh Mishra, Vivek Shrivastava, Dheeraj Agrawal and Suman Banerjee. In Proc. of ACM Mobicom, 2006. ( PDF)
10. Partially Overlapped Channels Not Considered Harmful. Arunesh Mishra, Vivek Shrivastava, Suman Banerjee and William Arbaugh. In Proc. of ACM Sigmetrics, 2006. ( PDF)
11. Natural Selection in Peer-to-Peer Streaming: From the Cathedral to the Bazaar. Vivek Shrivastava and Suman Banerjee. In Proc. of ACM Nossdav 2005. ( PDF)
12. Phase-based adaptive branch predictor: Seeing the forest for the trees. Karthik Jayaraman, Vivek Shrivastava, Brian Pellin, Martin Hock, Mikko H. Lipasti. In Proc. of IEEE HPCA Workshop on Introspective Architecture, 2005. ( PDF)