Northeastern University Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems Lab



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Biography

Pradeep Nagaraju received his Bachealor of Engineering degree from the department of Electronics and Communication, M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bangalore , India in 2007. During his senior year in his undergraduate studies he served as a "Founder and President" of a robotics club, ROBO-MSR. From 2007 to 2008, he worked as a software engineer for Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd. He was the recipient of "Best Employee in Excellence" award at Accenture. He is currently working as a research assistant in Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently pursuing his Master's thesis under the supervision of Dr. Tommaso Melodia.

Research

  • Testbed implementation of cross-layer optimization for cognitive radio networks on USRP2 software defined radio.

  • Design and experimentation of PHY, MAC, routing, and transport protocols for wireless distributed networks.

  • Software defined radio based testbed evaluation of ad hoc wireless networks.

  • Ionospheric propagation analysis based on Flex radio 5000A software defined radio.

More details can be found in research projects.

Publications

  • Nagaraju P.B., L. Ding, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, D. Pados, J. Matyjas, "Implementation of a Distributed Joint Routing and Dynamic Spectrum Allocation Algorithm on USRP2 Radios," DEMO at IEEE Intl. Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Boston, MA, Jun. 2010. [pdf]

  • L. Ding, P. Nagaraju, T. Melodia, S. Batalama, D. Pados, J. Matyjas, "Software-defined Joint Routing and Waveform Selection for Cognitive Ad Hoc Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), San Jose, CA, Oct. 2010. [pdf]

  • Pradeep B. Nagaraju, E. Koski, T. Melodia, "A Software-defined Ionospheric Chirpsounder for HF Propagation Analysis," in Proc. of HF Nordic Conference, Faro, Sweden, August 2010. [pdf]

Service

  • Reviewer

    • IEEE communications magazine.

  • ROBO MSR

    Founder and President of Robotics club at M S Ramaiah institute of technology, Bangalore, India

Links