Best Paper award for Siddhartha Brahma, Ayan Sengupta and co-authors

ACM MobiHoc is one of the top tier conferences in ACM for wireless networks. The symposium is dedicated to addressing challenges emerging from wireless ad hoc networking and computing. This year the conference took place in Balgalore, India.

In the awarded paper, entitled “Quantize-map-forward Relaying: an Experimental Study”, the authors presented a design and experimental evaluation of a wireless system that exploits relaying in the context of WiFi. They deployed state-of-the art relaying strategies and compared them with a recently introduced strategy called Quantize-Map-Forward (QMF). In theory, QMF has several attractive features, but there had been no implementable design accounting for real-world constraints. The authors re-designed QMF to represent the first experimental results that compare QMF with other state-of-the-art relaying schemes in a realistic indoor setting.

Siddhartha Brahma is in his fourth year of PhD at the laboratory for Algorithmic Research in Network Information (ARNI). His research interests broadly lie in algorithmic problems at the interface of Computer Science and Information Theory. He is the recipient of the President of India Gold Medal from IIT Kharagpur in 2005.

Ayan Sengupta is currenty pursuing his doctoral studies at the same lab. His research interests are broadly in the field of wireless communication networks, spanning across information-theoretic pursuits, communication and coding theory as well as system design and implementation. He is the recipient of the President of India Gold Medal from IIT Kharagpur in 2010.

Prof. Suhas Diggavi was on the faculty of the IC School where he directed the Laboratory for Information and Communication Systems (LICOS).
Melissa Duarte was a postdoctoral researcher at ARNI until August 2013.
Prof. Christina Fragouli has been heading the ARNI lab.