Ram Ramanathan Principal Scientist Network Research Department Raytheon BBN Technologies 10 Moulton Street, Cambridge Massachusetts 02138, USA  Phone : +1-617-873-2736 Fax : +1-617-873-6091 Email : ramanath AT bbn DOT com Web : http://www.ir.bbn.com

Bio

Dr. Ram Ramanathan is a Principal Scientist in the Network Research Department at Raytheon BBN Technologies, where he helps invent, develop and prototype new technologies, primarily in wireless computer networks.  Ram's current research areas broadly include wireless networks, network analysis and control algorithms, and network science. Over the course of his career, he has made contributions to the areas of scalable routing, topology control and the use of directional antennas in multihop networks and led several projects for the DoD, in particular DARPA.

Ram has published widely in international journals and conferences, including best paper award winning papers at IEEE MILCOM, IEEE INFOCOM, and ACM SIGCOMM. He has served on the program committees of several conferences including MobiCom, Mobihoc and Infocom, and was the TPC co-chair of Mobicom 2007. Ram has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) and Ad Hoc Networks journal, and is currently the Associate Editor-in-Chief of TMC. Ram received his Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and received his M.S and Ph.D degrees in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Delaware. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Here's the full CV.

Selected Publications (Journal)

1. J.B.D. Cabrera, R. Ramanathan, C. Guitierrez, R. Mehra, "Stable Topology Control for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 11, No. 7,  July 2007, pp. 574-576.

2. R. Ramanathan, J. Redi, C. Santivanez, D. Wiggins, S. Polit "Ad Hoc Networking with Directional Antennas: A Complete System Solution", Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Jan. 2005.
3. R. Ramanathan, J. Redi, "A brief overview of ad hoc networks: challenges and directions", IEEE Communications Magazine Vol. 40, Issue 5, May 2002
4. S. Ramanathan, "A Unified Framework and Algorithm for Channel Assignment in Wireless Networks," Wireless Networks 5, (1999), pp 81-94.
5. S. Ramanathan and M. Steenstrup, "Hierarchically-organized, multihop mobile networks for multimedia support," ACM/Baltzer Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp 101-119.
6. S. Ramanathan and M. Steenstrup, "A survey of routing techniques for mobile communications networks," ACM/Baltzer Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 89-103.
7. S. Ramanathan, "Multicast tree generation in networks with asymmetric links," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 558-568.

Selected Publications (Conferences)

1. J. Redi, R. Ramanathan"The WNaN Network Architecture," Proc. IEEE Milcom 2011, Baltimore, November 2011.

2. R. Ramanathan, A. Bar-Noy, P. Basu, M. Johnson, W. Ren, A. Swami, Q. Zhao"Beyond Graphs: Capturing Groups in Networks," Proc. IEEE NetSciComm 2011, Shanghai, April 2011.

3. R. Ramanathan et al"Scalability of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Theory vs Practice," Proc. IEEE Milcom 2010, San Jose, October 2010.

4. G. Jakllari, R. Ramanathan, "A Sync-less Time Divided MAC protocol for mobile ad hoc networks," Proc. IEEE MILCOM 2009, Boston, October 2009.

5. R. Ramanathan, F. Tchakountio, "Channel Access over Path Segments for Ultra Low Latency MANETs," Proc. IEEE MILCOM 2007, Orlando, October 2007.

6. R. Ramanathan, P. Basu, R. Krishnan, "Towards a Formalism for Routing in Challenged Networks," Proc. CHANTS 2007, Montreal, September 2007.

7. R. Ramanathan, R. Hansen, P. Basu, R. Hain, R. Krishnan, "Prioritized Epidemic Routing for Opportunistic Networks," Proc. MobiOpp 2007, Puerto Rico, June 2007.

8. R. Ramanathan, "Challenges: A Radically New Architecture for Next Generation Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", Proc. ACM MOBICOM 2005,  Cologne, Germany, August 2005.
9. C. Santivanez, R. Ramanathan, C. Partridge, R. Krishnan, M. Condell, S. Polit, "Opportunistic Spectrum Access: Challenges, Architecture, Protocols," in Proc. ACM WICON 2006, Boston, 2006.

10. E.L. Lloyd, R. Liu, M.V. Marathe, R. Ramanathan, S.S. Ravi, "Algorithmic Aspects of Topology Control Problems for Ad Hoc Networks," Proc. ACM MOBIHOC 2002,  Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2002.

11. J. Redi, R. Ramanathan, "Utilizing Directional Antennas for Ad Hoc Networking," Proc. IEEE MILCOM 2002,  Anaheim, California, USA, 2001 (Received Best Paper Classified Paper award).

12. R. Ramanathan, "On the performance of ad hoc networks using beamforming antennas", Proc. ACM MOBIHOC 2001,  Long Beach, California, USA, October 2001.

13. C. Santivanez, R. Ramanathan, I. Stavrakakis, "Making Link-State Routing Scale for Ad Hoc Networks", Proc. ACM MOBIHOC 2001,  Long Beach, California, USA, October 2001.

14. R. Ramanathan, "Making Ad Hoc Networks Density Adaptive", Proc. IEEE MILCOM 2001,  Tysons Corner, Virginia, October 2001.

15. F. Tchakountio, R. Ramanathan, ""Tracking Highly Mobile Endpoints",  Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM), July 2001, Rome, Italy.

16. R. Ramanathan and R. Hain, "Topology Control of Multihop Radio Networks using Transmit Power Adjustment", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM,  Tel Aviv, Israel, Mar 2000.

17. R. Krishnan, R. Ramanathan and M. Steenstrup, "Optimization Algorithms for Large Self-Structuring Networks, IEEE INFOCOM '99, New York, USA, March 1999.

18. K. Kasera and S. Ramanathan, "A Location Management Protocol for Hierarchically Organized Multihop Mobile Networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE ICUPC, San Diego, 1997.

19. S. Ramanathan, "A Unified Framework and Algorithm for (T/F/C)DMA Channel Assignment in Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM 1996, Kobe (Japan), 1997

20. S. Ramanathan, "Multicast Tree Generation in Networks with Asymmetric Links," in Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM 1996, San Francisco, CA, 1997 (Received Best Paper Award from among 590 submissions) 

21. S. Ramanathan, "Scheduling Algorithms for Multihop Radio Networks," in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, 1992, Baltimore, MD, 1992 (Received Best Student Paper Award)

Book Chapters, Tech Reports and Misc

1. R. Ramanathan, F. Tchakountiou, "Ultra Low-Latency MANETs", BBN Technical Memorandum TM-2023

2. XG Working Group "The XG Vision, Request for Comments, Version 2.0.

3. R. Ramanathan, "Antenna Beamforming and Power Control for Ad Hoc Networks," in Mobile Ad Hoc Networking, S. Basagni et al. (eds), IEEE Press/Wiley, 2004.

4. PhD Thesis: "Scheduling Algorithms for Multihop Radio Networks", Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware. Advisor: Prof. Errol Lloyd. (Received the Alan Colburn Prize for Best 1992 Dissertation in Engineering and Sciences at the University of Delaware)

Selected Patents

• S. Ramanathan, "Method for Self-organizing Mobile Wireless Station Network" U.S. Patent number  5,850,592.
• S. Ramanathan, "Method and apparatus for asynchronous reservation oriented multiple access", U.S. Patent number  6,577,613.

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Professional Activities

• Associate Editor-in-chief, IEEE Tranactions on Mobile Computing, 2011-
• Associate Editor, IEEE Tranactions on Mobile Computing, 2007-2009
• Co-Chair, Program Committee, ACM Mobicom 2007
• Editorial Board, Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier), 2002-2005
• Program committee member for ACM Mobicom conference, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008
• Program commitee member for IEEE Infocom conference, 2005
• Program committee member for MobiHoc (Mobile Ad Hoc Networks), 2000, 2001, 2002
• Tutorial on “Directional Antenna Systems in Ad Hoc Networking”, Mobihoc 2003
• Program committee member for DIALM (Discrete Algorithms for Mobility), 1998
• Member, Steering Committee, MobiHoc, 2001
• Co-Guest editor, for ACM/Baltzer MONET special issue on Routing in Mobile Networks
• Active in IETF standardization efforts for IDPR and NIMROD between 1994 and 1997