Bhaskaran Raman

research

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-10-28T15:21:38+05:30

Research Interests Computer networks, Wireless and mobile networks, Protocol design & evaluation, Wireless measurement studies, Computing and communication system design for the developing world, System building and protocol design for embedded wireless sensor applications.

pubs

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-10-28T15:19:46+05:30

I continue to add to my publication page from IITK; see here:

proj:fractel

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-08-10T19:14:25+05:30

Announcements * Senior Programmer required: [pdf], html People and Sponsors * Faculty: Bhaskaran Raman, Kameswari Chebrolu, Purushottam Kulkarni * Current students: Vishal Sevani * Past students: Lokendra Kumar Singh, Pulkit Gupta, Ashutosh Dhekne, Nirav Uchat, Rahul Jain, Rahul Mittal * Sponsor: This work is supported by TICET, a collaboration between Tata TeleServices Limited (TTSL) and IIT Bombay.

proj:fractel:2011-08-ath9k-programmer-ad - created

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-08-10T19:12:08+05:30

teaching

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-07-28T10:40:35+05:30

Teaching methods * Students versus exam-takers * Houses Short Courses * Learning and Teaching Computer Networks Using Open-Source Tools, Mar 2010 * Short course on Computer Networks, College of Engineering Pune, Jan 29-31 2010 Courses * CS699: Software Lab, Autumn 2011 * CS305: Computer Architecture, Autumn 2011 and Course material * CS341: Computer Architecture Lab, Autumn 2011

facad:sem3

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-07-18T19:19:31+05:30

Announcements * Registration dates are 18-20 Jul 2011, I believe you can register online by this date, and my approval can come later * Please see the academic calendar at * Instructions begin: Thu 21 Jul 2011 * Note that the institute is insisting on compulsory attendance during the first week of classes, and individual instructors may insist further * Everyone must meet me in person before I will approve your registration * Also,…

facad:start

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-07-18T18:59:47+05:30

This is the set of pages I maintain as information for the 2010 BTech batch for whom I am the faculty advisor. * Semester 3, Jul-Nov 2011 (current semester) * Semester 2, Jan-Apr 2011 * Semester 1, Jul-Nov 2010

start

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-07-14T16:24:47+05:30

Associate Professor Room 406, Kanwal Rekhi (KReSIT) Building Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Powai, Mumbai, INDIA 400076 Tel: +91-22-2576-7908, Fax: +91-22-2572-0022 Email: username is br, domain is cse dot iitb dot ac dot in Keep Dow Chemical off IITs, off India, off the world Information relevant to the 2010 BTech batch, for whom I am the Faculty Advisor

facad:sem2

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-04-07T12:40:15+05:30

Post mid-sem advise The summary of the meeting on 06 Apr 2011. * Manage your time well; don't let distractions like cricket mania or computer games take control of your time. Distractions should be allowed a max of about 6-8 hours per week. * Show up on time at class; “bus not available” is not an excuse. * It you miss a class or come late due to an unavoidable reason, make sure to ask your friends about what happened in class. * Take mock exams before actual exam to build confi…

facad:sem2notes

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-04-07T12:39:51+05:30

Duties: * Re-read and digest the BTech rules document, and also look over the courses curriculum for CSE students in detail * Advise students on their course-loading, especially those who have backlog * Insist on academic honesty again; I wrote a hand-written statement from each student. This is necessary to convey that cheating is not on * Insist that the students be on campus about a day before classes begin; I took a handwritten letter from everyone who came later, including those w…

proj:carts:roadsoundsense - created

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-04-07T12:11:09+05:30

RoadSoundSense: Acoustic Sensing based Road Congestion Monitoring in Developing Regions Rijurekha Sen, Pankaj Siriah, Bhaskaran Raman The 8th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON'11) Salt Lake City, Utah (USA), June 27-30, 2011.

proj:carts

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-04-07T12:08:55+05:30

Faculty: Bhaskaran Raman, Purushottam Kulkarni Students: Vishal Sevani, Rijurekha Sen, Prashima Sharma, Nithin Kumar Dara, Asheesh Dhar * Transportation in cities getting from bad to worse * How can communication technologies help? * Some ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) exist in the west: will not be applicable in India for several reasons * Indian roads are very different from western roads; Indian traffic is very different too * What techniques can be used to answer quest…

proj:carts:wireless-across-road - created

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-03-10T14:12:39+05:30

Wireless Across Road: RF-Based Road Traffic Congestion Detection Swaroop Roy, Rijurekha Sen, Swanand Kulkarni, Purushottam Kulkarni, Bhaskaran Raman, Lokendra Singh The 5th Annual Worshop on Wireless Systems: Advanced Research and Development (WISARD'11) A Workshop in COMSNETS 2011, Bangalore, India, Jan 4-5, 2011.

proj:carts:horn-ok-please

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-02-28T23:04:39+05:30

Horn-Ok-Please Rijurekha Sen, Bhaskaran Raman, Prashima Sharma The Eighth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, ACM MobiSys 2010, Jun 2010, San Francisco, CA (USA). Abstract Road congestion is a common problem worldwide. Existing Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are mostly inapplicable in developing regions due to high cost and assumptions of orderly traffic. In this work, we develop a low-cost technique to estimate vehicular speed, based on vehicular ho…

students

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-02-04T22:34:48+05:30

Resources for Students Plotting graphs in theses/reports/papers/presentations * Many students produce poor quality graphs, which does not do justice to the hard-work they have put in generating the data * If the graphs are not visible to the reader in the report or presentation, then all your hard work comes to naught * It is very easy to generate high quality, visually clear and appealing graphs using gnuplot * See the set of sample plots [here] for a variety of gnuplot commands and s…

teaching:houses

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-01-18T17:37:15+05:30

It is common in many schools to divide students into a number of houses. There is a semesterly and/or yearly competition among the houses. The idea of houses is a significant aspect in the popular Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling. I owe the inspiration as well as the details of many aspects of what I have here to the details described in the Harry Potter series.

proj:pip-sensys10

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-01-11T23:52:52+05:30

PIP: A Connection-Oriented, Multi-Hop, Multi-Channel TDMA-based MAC for High Throughput Bulk Transfer Bhaskaran Raman, Kameswari Chebrolu, Sagar Bijwe, Vijay Gabale PIP: A Connection-Oriented, Multi-Hop, Multi-Channel TDMA-based MAC for High Throughput Bulk Transfer The 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2010), Zurich, Switzerland, Nov 2010

facad:sem1notes - created

Bhaskaran Raman — 2011-01-08T13:26:58+05:30

Duties: * Read and digest the BTech rules document, and also look over the courses curriculum for CSE students in detail * The BTech rules document has a page or so on FacAd duties and expectations: read it * Welcome students during orientation session * Answer questions during orientation session, some of which may involve some digging up; office usually helps * Give your contact number, including perhaps mobile * Registration is standard: nothing special to do; just approve on ASC…

facad:sem1 - created

Bhaskaran Raman — 2010-12-21T12:20:14+05:30

Announcements * Some of you had asked for the Ubuntu CD; you can download the CD image from here * I highly recommend that students develop a healthy reading habit, outside of your academics. This is especially for students who are weak in English, but applies for all students. I have a set of recommended book reading here * Access to OSL/NSL outside of CS101 lab hours: Some students have expressed interest in using OSL/NSL computers outside the CS101 lab hours. For this: * It would…

proj:lit-mac-dev10

Bhaskaran Raman — 2010-09-17T15:37:51+05:30

LiT MAC: Addressing The Challenges of Effective Voice Communication in a Low Cost, Low Power Wireless Mesh Network Vijay Gabale, Bhaskaran Raman, Kameswari Chebrolu, Purushottam Kulkarni LiT MAC: Addressing The Challenges of Effective Voice Communication in a Low Cost, Low Power Wireless Mesh Network The First Annual Symposium on Computing for Development (ACM DEV 2010), Accepted for publication, London, UK, Dec 2010.