Research Interests

I am interested in research problems which sit at the boundary of Information Theory, Communications, and Networking.

In the past fifty years, information theory has been critical in characterizing the fundamental limits of communications and driving innovations in physical layer processing. Moving up the protocol stack, networking research for wireline networks is fairly mature but wireless network research has advanced in a somewhat ad-hoc manner. Just as it did for point-to-point communications, information theory in a network setting would likely reveal the true capability of wireless networks and suggest mechanisms for efficient operation.

My interests are primarily two-fold - (i) network information theory and (ii) algorithms & protocols for wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks. Being an engineer, I am also interested in translating theory to practice by building systems.