Dhananjay Sampath Graduate Student Phone: 831-459-5436 dsampath at soe.ucsc.edu Jack Baskin School of Engineering, 315 Computer Communications Lab University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

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I am currently a grad student at the Computer Communication Research Group and am working under Prof. J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves. My research interests are mainly in the direction of routing, more specifically, routing issues in wireless adhoc networks and topological ordering of routing entities in a mesh network. I completed my Bachelors (Computer Science & Engineering) from Hindustan College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India before joining UCSC in Fall 2005.

Some of the projects that I am currently working on include:

A case for hierarchical naming in MANETs(2008-):
work in progress...

EDIT: Elliptic Demarcation of Information Transfer (2006-2007)
The Elliptic Demarcation of Information Transfer (EDIT) scheme maintains paths between a source and destination more robustly and limit signaling overhead incurred in mobile ad hoc networks (MANET). EDIT establishes regions of interest on demand based on distances between a relay node and a source-destination pair, and maintains proactive signaling for source-destination pairs within such regions of interest. We prove correctness of EDIT, which is based on a progressive sequence numbering scheme, and show that the elliptical regions of interest built by EDIT are more efficient than traditional use of TTLs, which establish a circular, undirected boundary around destinations. Simulation results comparing EDIT against location aided routing (LAR), AODV, and OLSR indicate that EDIT enables on-demand routing that is far more efficient than AODV and OLSR, and comparable to LAR, but without the need for geo-location information.

You can download my resume here.

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