Theses supervised by Hari Balakrishnan

PhDs (inv. chron. order of graduation)

• Kyle A. Jamieson
  June 2008
  Current position: Assistant Professor, University College London
• Michael Walfish
  Defending Networked Resources Against Floods of Unwelcome Requests , November 2007
  Current position: Postdoc at Stanford; will join UT Austin as Assistant Professor of CS after that.
• Allen K.-L. Miu
  Improving Packet Delivery Efficiency Using Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless LANs , May 2006
  Current position: Ruckus Wireless.
• Jaeyeon Jung
  Real-Time Detection of Malicious Network Activity Using Stochastic Models , May 2006
  Current position: MTS, Intel Research, Seattle (after a stint at Mazu).
• Magdalena Balazinska
Fault-Tolerance and Load Management in a Distributed Stream Processing System
PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 2005.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
• Nicholas Greer Feamster
Proactive Techniques for Correct and Predictable Internet Routing
PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2005.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
• Nissanka Bodhi Priyantha
The Cricket Indoor Location System
PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2005.
Current position: Researcher at Microsoft Research, Seattle, WA.
• David Godbe Andersen
Improving End-to-End Availability Using Overlay Networks
PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 2004.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Mark Alexander Connell ("Alex") Snoeren
A Session-Based Approach to Internet Mobility
PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 2002.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of California, San Diego.
• Wendi Beth Heinzelman
Application-Specific Protocol Architectures for Wireless Networks
PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2000. Co-supervised with Anantha Chandrakasan.
Current position: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Rochester.

SM

• Mythili Vutukuru
• Bret Hull
• Michael Walfish
• Allen Miu
  Design and Implementation of an Indoor Mobile Navigation System
  SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2002
  Winner of a Masterworks Award, May 2002.
• David G. Andersen
  Resilient Overlay Networks
  SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2001
  Winner of a Masterworks Award, May 2001.
• Jorge Rafael Nogueras
  A Stream Redirection Architecture for Pervasive Computing Environments
  SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2001.
  Winner of a Masterworks Award, May 2001.
• Nissanka Bodhi Priyantha
  Providing Precise Indoor Location Information to Mobile Hosts
  SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 2001.
• Deepak Bansal
  Congestion Control for Streaming Video and Audio Applications
  SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 2001. [Postscript (1.37 MB)] (54 pages)
  Winner of a Masterworks Award, May 2001.
• William Adjie-Winoto
  A Self-Configuring Resolver Architecture for Resource Discovery and Routing in Device Networks
  S.M. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2000. [Gzipped postscript (708KB)] [Postscript (3.9 MB)](104 pages)
  Winner of a Masterworks Award, May 2000.
• Hariharan S. Rahul
  Unified Congestion Control for Unreliable Protocols
  S.M. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 1999. [Gzipped postscript (225KB)] [Postscript (815KB)]

MEng

• Sam Gross
• Alex Vandiver
  Distributed speak-up.
  M. Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 2007.
• Hongyi Hu OpenWiFi
  M. Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2007.
• Kevin Chen
  CafNet: A Carry-and-Forward Network Stack
  M. Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 2007.
• J.D. Zamfirescu
  Measuring the Performance of a Distributed Quota Enforcement System for Spam Control
  M. Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2006.
• Rohit Rao
• Hiroyoshi Iwashima
  Differential Bandwidth Allocation with Multiplexed TCP Connections
  M. Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 2003. PDF, PS here.
• Winston Wang
  Implementation and Security Analysis of the Infranet Anti-Censorship System
  M. Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2003. PDF, PS here.
• Todd Nightingale
  A Simulation Study of Reordering-Resilient TCP Enhancements
  M. Eng. Thesis, MIT, February 2003.
• Jon Salz
  TESLA: A Transparent, Extensible Session-Layer Framework for End-to-end Network Services
  M. Eng. Thesis, MIT, May 2002. PS here
• Kyle Jamieson
  Implementation of a Power-Saving Protocol for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
  M. Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 2002. PS here.
• Nicholas G. Feamster
  Adaptive Delivery of Real-Time Streaming Video
  M. Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2001. [Postscript (11.9 MB)][.ps.gz (2.9 MB)][PDF (3.15 MB)](92 pages)
  Winner of the William A. Martin Memorial Award for Best MEng Thesis in Computer Science, May 2001,
• Peter Yang
  Improving TCP Performance over Networks with Packet Reordering
  M. Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2001. [Postscript]
  Co-supervised with Robert Morris.
• Jeremy Lilley
  Scalability in an Intentional Naming System
  M. Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2000. [Postscript (85 pages)]
  Winner of the Charles and Jennifer Johnson Thesis Prize, May 2000.
• Emil Sit
  An Analysis of DNS Caching Behavior
  M. Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2000. Co-supervised with Robert Morris.
• Anit Chakraborty
  A Distributed Architecture for Mobile, Location-Dependent Applications
  M. Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2000. [PDF (656KB)] (58 pages)
• Elliot Schwartz
  The Design of Intentional Names
  M. Eng. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 1999. [Gzipped postscript (358KB)] [Postscript (4.1 MB)]