Peter Steenkiste

Professor
Departments of Computer Science and
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University


News!

Visit the wireless network emulator demo at MobiCom 2008

Attend MobiCom 2008: Preliminary program now available!

Wireless emulator now available for outside users

2008 Research opportunities for undergraduates (CMU only)

 

Research Interests

Networking and distributed computing

Bio

 

Teaching

18-345: Introduction to Telecom Networks, Fall 2008

15-496: A hands-on Introduction to Wireless Networking, mini 4, Spring 2008, noon-1:20, PH 225B

15-441: Computer Networks, Spring 2008, 1:30-2:50, DH 1212

 

Research Projects

Wireless networking a broad range of wireless networking projects

·        Self-managing chaotic networks

·        Wireless testbed based on emulation

·        High-quality video over wireless

·        Playing with software radios

Aura: Invisible Ubiquitous Computing

Diamond: Distributed Interactive Search

Network monitoring: efficient tools for measuring available bandwidth and bottleneck location

More projects (including past projects)

Some code releases

 

Graduate Students

Amy Lu

Xi Liu

Fahad Dogar

Xiahui (Eeyore) Wang

Kaushik Lakshminarayanan

George Nychis

Former Graduated Students


5th Year Master's program in CS

Program overview

Application form (Deadline for AY 09-10: Monday Oct 13, 2008)

 

Recent Papers

NEW! Using Physical Layer Emulation to Optimize and Evaluate Mobile and Wireless Systems, Glenn Judd, Xiaohui Wang, Mei-Hsuan Lu, and Peter Steenkiste, 5th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 2008), Dublin, Ireland, July 2008.

NEW!  Efficient channel-aware Rate Adaptation in Dynamic Environments, Glenn Judd, Xiaohui Wang, and Peter Steenkiste, The Sixth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys'08), ACM, Denver, June 2008

NEW! Understanding Link-level 802.11 Behavior: Replacing Convention with Measurement, Glenn Judd and Peter Steenkiste, Wireless Internet Conference 2007 (Wicon07), October 2007, Austin, Texas.

NEW! Design and Evaluation of a Hybrid Physical Space Service for Pervasive Computing Applications, Nancy Miller and Peter Steenkiste, 4th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services (Mobiquitous 2007), Philladelphia, August 2007.

NEW! A Time-based Adaptive Retry Strategy for Video Streaming in 802.11 WLANs , M. Lu, P. Steenkiste, and T. Chen, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Special Issue on Video Communications for 4G Wireless Systems, January 2007.

NEW!Distributed Dynamic Channel Selection in Chaotic Wireless Networks, Matthias Ihmig and Peter Steenkiste, 13th European Wireless Conference, Paris, France, April 2007.

 

More Papers

By date (includes older papers)

Papers on wireless

Papers on Aura

Papers on Libra

Papers on Darwin

Papers on Remulac

Papers on Credit Net

 

Mailing address

Department of Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University

5000 Forbes Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891

 

Office

Wean Hall 8202

Voice: 412-268-3261

Fax: 412-268-5576

E-mail: prs at cs.cmu.edu

Directions

 

Assistant

Angela Miller

Wean Hall 8215

Voice: 412-268-6645

E-mail: amiller at cs.cmu.edu


Last updated August 2006