University of Southern California

Rahul Urgaonkar

Rahul Urgaonkar

I am a PhD candidate in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. I am currently a Research Assistant in the Communication Sciences Institute and my advisor is Prof. Michael J. Neely. I obtained a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2002 and MS in Electrical Engineering from USC in 2005.

Update: I defended my thesis on Feb. 23, 2011 and am now working at Raytheon BBN Technologies as a Network Scientist.

Here is my thesis: Optimal Resource Allocation and Cross-Layer Control in Cognitive and Cooperative Wireless Networks

Research Interests:

Wireless Networks, Performance Evaluation, Stochastic Network Optimization, Optimal Control

Publications

Journal Articles (under submission)

  1. R. Urgaonkar and M. J. Neely, "Opportunistic Cooperation in Cognitive Femtocell Networks," under revision. [arXiv Technical Report ]

  2. R. Urgaonkar and M. J. Neely, "Delay-Limited Cooperative Communication with Reliability Constraints in Wireless Networks," under submission. [arXiv Technical Report]

Journal Articles (published/to appear)

  1. R. Urgaonkar and M. J. Neely, "Optimal Routing with Mutual Information Accumulation in Wireless Networks," to appear in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Cooperative Networking Challenges and Applications.

  2. R. Urgaonkar and M. J. Neely, "Network Capacity Region and Minimum Energy Function for a Delay-Tolerant Mobile Ad Hoc Network," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1137-1150, August 2011. [Full version]

  3. R. Urgaonkar and M. J. Neely, "Opportunistic Scheduling with Reliability Guarantees in Cognitive Radio Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 766-777, June 2009.

  4. M. J. Neely and R. Urgaonkar, "Optimal Backpressure Routing for Wireless Networks with Multi-Receiver Diversity," Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 862-881, July 2009.

  5. M. J. Neely and R. Urgaonkar, "Cross Layer Adaptive Control for Wireless Mesh Networks," Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 719-743, August 2007.

Conference Papers

  1. R. Urgaonkar, B. Urgaonkar, M. J. Neely, and A. Sivasubramaniam, "Optimal Power Cost Management Using Stored Energy in Data Centers," ACM SIGMETRICS 2011, San Jose, CA, June 2011. [Full version]

  2. R. Urgaonkar, E. N. Ciftcioglu, A. Yener, and M. J. Neely, "Quality of Informarion Aware Scheduling in Task Processing Networks," 7th International Workshop on Resource Allocation and Cooperation in Wireless Networks (RAWNET), Princeton, NJ, May 2011.

  3. R. Urgaonkar and M. J. Neely, "Routing with Mutual Information Accumulation in Wireless Networks," to appear in Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2011. [arXiv Technical Report]

  4. R. Urgaonkar, U. C. Kozat, K. Igarashi, and M. J. Neely, "Dynamic Resource Allocation and Power Management in Virtualized Data Centers," IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2010, Osaka, Japan, April 2010.

  5. R. Urgaonkar and M. J. Neely, "Delay-Limited Cooperative Communication with Reliability Constraints in Wireless Networks," IEEE INFOCOM, Mini-conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.

  6. M. J. Neely and R. Urgaonkar, "Opportunism, Backpressure, and Stochastic Optimization with the Wireless Broadcast Advantage," Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct. 2008 (invited paper).

  7. R. Urgaonkar and M. J. Neely, "Opportunistic Scheduling with Reliability Guarantees in Cognitive Radio Networks," IEEE INFOCOM, Phoenix, AZ, April 2008.

  8. R. Urgaonkar and M. J. Neely, "Capacity Region, Minimum Energy and Delay for a Mobile Ad-Hoc Network," 4th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2006), Boston, MA, April 2006.

  9. P. Baruah, R. Urgaonkar, and B. Krishnamachari, "Learning Enforced Time Domain Routing to Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Fields," First IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS-I), held in conjunction with IEEE LCN, Tampa, FL, November 2004.

  10. R. Urgaonkar and B. Krishnamachari, "FLOW: An Efficient Forwarding Scheme to Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Networks, " First IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2004), Santa Clara, CA, October 2004.

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