Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam
Email: lenin [at] csail [dot] mit [dot] edu

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Papers

Conference
• Improving Wireless Network Performance Using Sensor Hints
  Lenin Ravindranath, Calvin Newport, Hari Balakrishnan, and Sam Madden
  Accepted to NSDI 2011
• Accurate, Low-Energy Trajectory Mapping For Mobile Devices
  Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Ravindranath, Hari Balakrishnan, Sam Madden and Lewis Girod
  Accepted to NSDI 2011
• Nectar: Automatic Management of Data and Computation in Data Centers
  Pradeep Kumar Gunda, Lenin Ravindranath, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Yuan Yu, and Li Zhuang
  Usenix OSDI 2010, Vancouver, Canada
• VTrack: Accurate, Energy-Aware Traffic Delay Estimation Using Mobile Phones - Best Paper Award
  Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Ravindranath, Katrina LaCurts, Sivan Toledo, Jakob Eriksson, Sam Madden, Hari Balakrishnan
  ACM Sensys, Berkeley, California, November 2009
  
• Dircast: A Practical and Efficient Wi-Fi Multicast System
  Ranveer Chandra, Thomas Moscibroda, Vishnu Navda, Jitu Padhye, Ramachandran Ramjee, Lenin Ravindranath
  IEEE ICNP, Princeton, NJ, USA, October 2009
  
• SixthSense: RFID-based Enterprise Intelligence
  Lenin Ravindranath, Piyush Agrawal, Venkat Padmanabhan
  ACM Mobisys, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, June 2008
  
• COMBINE: Leveraging the Power of Wireless Peers through Collaborative Downloading
  Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Venkat Padmanabhan, Lenin Ravindranath, Chandu Thekkath
  ACM Mobisys, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2007
  
• Enhancing Security of Corporate Wi-Fi Networks Using DAIR
  Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Jitendra Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath, Manpreet Singh, Alec Wolman, Brian Zill
  ACM Mobisys, Uppsala, Sweden, June 2006
Tech-report
• Nectar: Automatic Management of Data and Computation in Data Centers
  Pradeep Kumar Gunda, Lenin Ravindranath, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Yuan Yu, and Li Zhuang
  MSR Tech Report no. MSR-TR-2010-55, May 2010
• Towards Unified Management of Networked Services in Wired and Wireless Networks
  Victor Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Dave Maltz, Parveen Patel, Jitendra Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath
  MSR-TR-2008-148, pp. 14, Microsoft Research Tech Report, October 2008
Workshop
• Code In The Air: Simplifying Sensing and Coordination Tasks on Smartphones
  Lenin Ravindranath, Arvind Thiagarajan, Hari Balakrishnan, Sam Madden
  Hotmobile 2012
• "Extra-Sensory Perception" for Wireless Networks
  Lenin Ravindranath, Calvin Newport, Hari Balakrishnan, Sam Madden
  ACM Hotnets 2010, Monterey, CA, USA
• Change is hard: Adapting Dependency Graph Models For Unified Diagnosis in Wired/Wireless Networks
  Lenin Ravindranath, Victor Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, David A. Maltz, Jitu Padhye, Parveen Patel
  ACM SIGCOMM workshop on enterprise networking (WREN), August 2009
  Shorter version of the MSR-TR-2008-148 tech report
  
• Wi-Fi Neighborcast: Enabling Communication Among Nearby Clients
  Ranveer Chandra, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath
  IEEE HotMobile, Napa Valley, CA, USA, February 2008
  
• Beacon-Stuffing: Wi-Fi without Associations
  Ranveer Chandra, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath, Alec Wolman
  IEEE Hotmobile, Tucson, Arizona, February 2007
  
• Collaborative Downloading for Multi-homed Wireless Devices
  Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Venkat Padmanabhan, Chandu Thekkath, Lenin Ravindranath
  IEEE Hotmobile, Tucson, Arizona February 2007
  
• DAIR: A Framework for Managing Enterprise Wireless Networks Using Desktop Infrastructure
  Paramvir Bahl, Jitendra Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath, Manpreet Singh, Alec Wolman, Brian Zill
  ACM Hotnets IV, College Park, November 2005
Poster
• Code in the Air: Simplifying Sensing on Smartphones
  Tim Kaler, John Patrick Lynch, Timothy Peng, Lenin Ravindranath, Arvind Thiagarajan, Hari Balakrishnan, and Sam Madden
  Demo Abstract, Sensys 2010, November 2010
  
• Improving the Latency of 802.11 Hand-offs using Sentinel based Architecture
  Lenin Ravindranath, Fredrick Prashanth, Leo Prasath, Praveen Durairaj, Arul Siromoney
  12th IEEE/ACM HiPC, Goa, December 2005