Uncharted Lecture Series: Communication Under Exogenous Constraints

Barath Raghavan

ICSI and De Novo Group

Thursday, February 19, 2015
4:00 p.m., Lecture Hall

In this talk I will describe multiple related threads of research examining communication under external constraints — constraints due to a) fundamental natural limits, b) oppressive governments, and c) poverty and resource unavailability. Today, work on these topics is conducted under conventional monikers such as a) green computing, b) Internet freedom, and c) ICTD, but seldom are the potentially valuable cross-disciplinary aspects explored. I will describe a few ongoing projects to build resilient, low-cost, and low-power communication systems and discuss their use in a variety of contexts.

Bio:

Barath Raghavan graduated with his bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley in 2002. He went on to graduate school at UC San Diego on an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and received his doctorate in 2009. He has won a Green Networking Workshop Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award (both given by the ACM SIGCOMM), as well as a Google Excellent Paper in Networks Award. His research interests include network protocol design, Internet architecture, and energy efficiency.