Massachusetts Institute of Technology

nabeel@csail.mit.edu

Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL)

32 Vassar Street,

Cambridge, MA 02139

Office: 32-G916

Phone: +1 (617) 780-1502

1. 1.WiFi Overcast: Enabling True Mobility for Realtime Applications in the Enterprise,
   Nabeel Ahmed and Usman Ismail,
   Tech. Report CS-2009-01, January 2009.
   

2. 2.Deconstructing Conflicts Graphs for 802.11 networks,
   Nabeel Ahmed, Usman Ismail, Srinivasan Keshav, and Dina Papagiannaki,
   Unpublished manuscript.
   

3. 3.Incremental Maintenance of Global Aggregates,
   Nabeel Ahmed, David Hadaller and Srinivasan Keshav,
   Tech. Report CS-2006-19, June 2006.
   

4. 4.A Survey of Data Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems,
   Rolando Blanco, Nabeel Ahmed, David Hadaller, L. G. A. Sung, Herman Li and Mohamed Soliman,
   Tech. Report CS-2006-18, June 2006.
   

5. 5.An Efficient Disk Resource Management Mechanism for Scalable Disconnected Access to Web Services,
   Nabeel Ahmed and Mike Dahlin,
   University of Texas at Austin Computer Science (UTCS) Tech. Report (CS-TR-01-48), August, 2001

Since November 2009, I’m a Post-Doctoral Researcher working with Prof. Dina Katabi in the Networks & Mobile Systems (NMS) group at CSAIL. I completed my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, under the supervision of Prof. Srinivasan Keshav

My research interests are in wireless networks and distributed systems. Most recently, I have been working on novel cross-layer design techniques for emerging wireless technologies.

My PhD. work was on interference mitigation in dense enterprise 802.11 networks. I also completed my Masters in CS from the University of Waterloo (UW) and got my Bachelors from the University of Texas at Austin. 

Most of my research involves field experimentation. At UW, I spearheaded the deployment of a 40-node wireless testbed used primarily to study novel centralized solutions for enterprise wireless LANs.  

1. 1.Secure In-Band Wireless Pairing
   Shyamnath Gollakota, Nabeel Ahmed, Nikolai Zeldovich, Dina Katabi
   To Appear in USENIX Security 2011
   

2. 2.OmniVoice: A Mobile Voice Solution For Small-scale Enterprises
   Nabeel Ahmed, Srinivasan Keshav, Dina Papagiannaki
   To Appear in ACM Mobihoc 2011
   

3. 3.PixNet: Designing Interference-Free Wireless Links Using LCD-Camera Pairs,
   Samuel David Perli, Nabeel Ahmed, Dina Katabi,
   In ACM Mobicom 2010
   

4. 4.CENTAUR: Realizing the Full Potential of Centralized WLANs through a Hybrid Data Path, Best Paper Award
   Vivek. Shrivastava, Nabeel Ahmed, Shravan Rayanchu, Suman Banerjee, Srinivasan Keshav, Dina Papagiannaki, and Arunesh Mishra,
   In ACM MobiCom 2009
   

5. 5.Measuring Multi-Parameter Conflict Graphs for 802.11 Networks,
   Nabeel Ahmed, Usman Ismail, Srinivasan Keshav and Dina Papagiannaki,
   In ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MCCR), 2009 (to appear).
   

6. 6.Designing a High Performance Wireless Testbed for Centralized Control,
   Nabeel Ahmed and Usman Ismail,
   In IEEE TridentCom 2009 (to appear).
   

7. 7.Online Estimation of RF Interference,
   Nabeel Ahmed, Usman Ismail, Srinivasan Keshav and Dina Papagiannaki
   In ACM CoNext 2008.
   

8. 8.Interference Mitigation in Enterprise WLANs through Speculative Scheduling,
   Nabeel Ahmed, Vivek Shrivastava, Arunesh Mishra, Suman Banerjee, Srinivasan Keshav and Dina Papagiannaki,
   In ACM Mobicom 2007 (short paper).
   

9. 9.SAFIRE: A Self-Organizing Architecture for Information Exchange between First Responders,
   Nabeel Ahmed, Kamran Jamshaid and Omar Zia Khan,
   In Second IEEE Workshop on SDR Networks (with SECON 2007).
   

10. 10.SMARTA: A Self-Managing Architecture for Thin Access Points,
    Nabeel Ahmed and Srinivasan Keshav,
    In ACM CoNext 2006.
    

11. 11.GUESS: Gossiping Updates for Efficient Spectrum Sensing,
    Nabeel Ahmed, David Hadaller and Srinivasan Keshav,
    In ACM MobiShare (with Mobicom 2006).
    

12. 12.A Successive Refinement Approach to Wireless Infrastructure Network Deployment,
    Nabeel Ahmed and Srinivasan Keshav,
    In IEEE WCNC 2006.

1. 1.Interference Management in Dense 802.11 Networks,
   Nabeel Ahmed
   PhD Thesis (University of Waterloo), October 2009.
   

2. 2.A Self-Management Approach to Configuring Wireless Infrastructure Networks,
   Nabeel Ahmed
   Master’s Thesis (University of Waterloo), January 2006.
   

3. 3.An Efficient Disk Resource Management Mechanism for Scalable Disconnected Access to Web Services,
   Nabeel Ahmed
   Undergraduate Thesis (University of Texas at Austin), December 2001.
   Special Honors from Department of Computer Sciences

1. 1.PixNet: LCD-Camera Pairs as Communication Links,
   Samuel David Perli, Nabeel Ahmed, Dina Katabi
   In Demo Session at ACM Sigcomm 2010 (Second Prize in SRC Competition)
   

2. 2.Measuring Multi-Parameter Conflict Graphs for 802.11 Networks,
   Nabeel Ahmed, Usman Ismail, Dina Papagiannaki  and Srinivasan Keshav,
   In Poster Session at ACM Mobicom 2008.
   

3. 3.SMARTA: A Self-Managing Architecture for Thin Access Points
   Nabeel Ahmed, Srinivasan Keshav, Dina Papagiannaki
   Poster and Demo at Intel Research Open House (Pittsburgh), October 2007
   

4. 4.Empirical Characterization of WLAN Interference,
   Nabeel Ahmed, Ye Hu, and Srinivasan Keshav,
   In Demo Session at ACM Mobicom 2006.
   

5. 5.Intelligent Radio Resource Management for Wireless LANs,
   Nabeel Ahmed and Srinivasan Keshav,
   In Nortel Networks Poster Session, June 2006.