Logo INRIA MAESTRO: models for performance analysis and control of network

Dinesh Kumar
(Third year Ph.D student)

Supervisor: Dr. Eitan Altman
Institution: INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France Tel: +33-(0)4-9238-7637, Fax:+33-(0)4-9238-7971
Team: Project Maestro Email: dkumar@sophia.inria.fr

Detailed CV

Please click this link for my detailed CV in pdf

Research Interests
  • Hybrid Wireless Networks (802.11 WLANs & 3G UMTS)
  • Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs)
  • Network protocols for Fountain coded traffic
  • Network Modeling, Measurement and Simulation
  • Performance Analysis
  • Genetic Algorithms, Markov Decision Processes, Game Theory, Wiener filtering
  • Aspects of Image Processing: 3-D Shape and Camera Motion extraction (passive)

Patents
  1. "An Improved TCP based Channel Switching Policy for Common and Dedicated Channels in 3G UMTS Downlink", Dinesh Kumar, Dhiman Barman, Eitan Altman, Jean-Marc Kelif
    Filed in European Patent Office by France Telecom R&D, May 2006.


Conference Proceedings
  1. "Modeling & Performance Analysis of a Fountain Codes based Transport in IEEE 802.11 WLANs", Dinesh Kumar, Tijani Chahed, Eitan Altman
    (Under Submission).

  2. "User-Network Association in an 802.11 WLAN & 3G UMTS Hybrid Cell: Individual Optimality", Dinesh Kumar, Eitan Altman, Jean-Marc Kelif
    To appear in Proceedings of IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Princeton, USA, 2007. pdf

  3. "Globally Optimal User-Network Association in an 802.11 WLAN & 3G UMTS Hybrid Cell", Dinesh Kumar, Eitan Altman, Jean-Marc Kelif
    To appear in Proceedings of 20th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-20), Ottawa, Canada, 2007. pdf

  4. "Route Lifetime based Optimal Hop Selection in VANETs on Highway: An Analytical Viewpoint", Dinesh Kumar, Arzad A. Kherani, Eitan Altman
    Proceedings of IFIP Networking, Coimbra, Portugal, 2006. pdf

  5. "Capacity Optimizing Hop Distance in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network with Power Control", Dinesh Kumar, Ramaiyan Venkatesh, Anurag Kumar, Eitan Altman
    Proceedings of 4th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Boston, USA, 2006. pdf

  6. "A Structural Property of Solutions to Path Optimization Problems in Random Access Networks", A. A. Kherani, D. Kumar, E. Altman
    Proceedings of 4th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Boston, USA, 2006. pdf

  7. "Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Control in IEEE 802.11 WLANs", E. Altman, A. Kumar, D. Kumar, R. Venkatesh
    Proceedings of 19th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-19), Beijing, China, 2005. pdf

  8. "Recovering Camera Motion and Mobile Objects in Video Documents", Damien Paulin, Dinesh Kumar, Raghav Bhaskar, Georges Quenot
    International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing,
    University of Brescia, Italy, 2001. pdf


Work in Progress
  1. "Wiener Filtering Estimation of Covering Population in a G/G/∞ type Sensor Network Spread", Dinesh Kumar, Eitan Altman, Tamer Basar

  2. "An End-to-End Transport Protocol for Fountain Coded Traffic", Dinesh Kumar, Tijani Chahed, Eitan Altman

  3. "Modeling and Analysis of HTTP-1.1 type TCP connections in a tandem WLAN-WiMax Network", Vinod Sharma, Eitan Altman, Dinesh Kumar


Invited Talks
  1. "Simulation Study of a Reliable Open Loop Transport for Fountain Coded Traffic in UMTS and WLAN Downlinks", Dinesh Kumar, Tijani Chahed
    EuroNGI Annual Cellular-2 Meeting, Pisa, Italy, Oct. 2006.


Research Reports
  1. "User-Network Association in a WLAN-UMTS Hybrid Cell: Global & Individual Optimality", Dinesh Kumar, Eitan Altman, Jean-Marc Kelif
    Research Report, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, Aug-2006. get here

  2. "New Cross-Layer Channel Switching Policy for TCP Transmission on 3G UMTS Downlink", Dinesh Kumar, Dhiman Barman, Eitan Altman, Jean-Marc Kelif
    Research Report, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, Aug-2006. get here

  3. "Route Lifetime based Interactive Routing in Intervehicle Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", Dinesh Kumar, Arzad A. Kherani, Eitan Altman
    Research Report, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, Sept-2005. get here

  4. "Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Control in IEEE 802.11 WLANs", E. Altman, A. Kumar, D. Kumar, R. Venkatesh
    Research Report, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France, Mar-2005. get here


Book Chapters
  1. "Recovering in Video Documents", Georges M. Quénot, Philippe Mulhem, Damien Paulin, Dinesh Kumar, Raghav Bhaskar, Arvind Bhusnurmath
    Multimedia Mining: A Highway to Intelligent Multimedia Documents
    edited by Chabane Djeraba, chapter-5, pages 83-112. Kluwer, 2002.


Professional Services

External reviewer for PIMRC'05, ICC Wireless Communications'06, VTC Spring'06, Networking'06, VTC Fall'06, Globecom'06, ISWCS'06, Computer Networks journal, Wireless Networks journal, IEEE Network Magazine, Infocom'07, Sigmetrics'07.

Professional Experience
  1. 06/2001 - 01/2005: Software Development Engineer at Amadeus, Sophia Antipolis, France
      Responsible for a system analysis project to study and propose a solution for integration of various back-end host simulators and tools. Responsible for a proof of concept validation for a new architecture to be used as a common platform for all applications in Amadeus. The architecture involves a web-browser control based thin-client skeleton with XML technology for all cross-network communication and data sharing. Defined & developed new version of Alcyon product used by Air France for flight/hotel/car reservation (Object oriented programming). Designed & developed SNCF rail seat-map component for Vista product. (UML, XML, XSL(T) coding)
  2. 05/2000 - 07/2000: Summer Internship at ENS-IMAG (Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science), Grenoble, France
      Worked on 3D-shape & motion recovery from video sequences for Video Indexing purposes. (C, Mesa-OpenGL, Numerical Recipes coding)

References
  1. Dr. Eitan Altman
    Maestro, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France.
    email : altman@sophia.inria.fr
  2. Dr. Anurag Kumar
    ECE Dept., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
    email : anurag@ece.iisc.ernet.in
  3. Jean-Marc Kelif
    France Telecom R&D, Issy les Moulineaux, France.
    email : jeanmarc.kelif@orange-ft.com
  4. Dr. Georges Quenot
    CLIPS, IMAG, Grenoble, France.
    email : Georges.Quenot@imag.fr

This site is best viewed with Mozilla 1.7 or later.