I am a member of the DISCO Lab under the guidance of Prof Liviu Iftode. I work on TrafficView and SmartPhones.

Resume:

• PDF (last updated - March, 2009).

Publications:

• News Posting by Strategic Users in a Social Network (short paper), Mangesh Gupte, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Lu Han, Liviu Iftode, Pravin Shankar and Raluca Ursu. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE 2009), December 2009.
• The Impact of DSRC Channel Switching on TCP Performance, Pravin Shankar, Liviu Iftode. Under submission.
• Scaling Multiparty Conversations in Vehicular Social Networks, Lu Han, Stephen Smaldone, Pravin Shankar, Liviu Iftode. Under submission.
• Privately Querying Location-based Services with SybilQuery, Pravin Shankar, Vinod Ganapathy, Liviu Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2009), September-October 2009.
• CARS: Context Aware Rate Selection for Vehicular Networks, Pravin Shankar, Tamer Nadeem, Justinian Rosca, Liviu Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2008), October 2008.
• RoadSpeak: Enabling Voice Chat on Roadways using Vehicular Social Networks, Stephen Smaldone, Lu Han, Pravin Shankar and Liviu Iftode. In the Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Social Network Systems (SocialNets'08, in conjunction with EuroSys), April 2008.
• Effect of Antenna Placement and Diversity on Vehicular Network Communications, Sanjit Kaul, Kishore Ramachandran, Pravin Shankar, Sangho Oh, Marco Gruteser, Ivan Seskar, Tamer Nadeem. In Proceedings of the Fourth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2007), June 2007.
• A Comparative Study of Data Dissemination Models for VANETs, Tamer Nadeem, Pravin Shankar and Liviu Iftode. 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2006), July 2006.
• Indoor Localization Using Camera Phones, Nishkam Ravi, Pravin Shankar, Andrew Frankel, Ahmed Elgammal and Liviu Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA 2006), April 2006.

Talks:

• CARS: Context Aware Rate Selection for Vehicular Networks, the 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2008), October 2008.
• A Content Delivery Protocol for Vehicles using Hybrid Wifi/3G Networks, The 3rd Helsinki-Rutgers PhD Student Workshop on Spontaneous Networking, Rutgers University, NJ, May 2008.
• Context Aware Rate Adaptation for Vehicular Adhoc Networks, The 2nd Helsinki-Rutgers PhD Student Workshop on Spontaneous Networking, Helsinki, Finland, May 28 - June 1, 2007.
• Designing an Inter-vehicular network stack for Car-to-Car communication, Phenix Workshop, IRISA, Rennes, France, December 2005.
• Service Creation and Execution Platform for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Strategic Project Demo, Telcordia Applied Research, August 2005.

Patents:

• Context Aware Rate Adaptation for Vehicular Adhoc Networks, Pravin Shankar, Liviu Iftode, Tamer Nadeem, Justinian Rosca, filed as provisional Patent Application 2007P11191US.

Others:

• TrafficView: TrafficView is a system that uses car-to-car wireless communication to exchange both immediate and distant traffic-related information for real-time safety warnings and route planning. (Demo link: http://discolab.rutgers.edu/traffic/tvdemo.html )


• Sensor Networks - A Survey (May 2007): A survey paper on Sensor Networks (part of a course project), which presents the key advances and seminal papers in different sub-areas of sensor networks, provides an overview of the major sensor networks projects, and a list of journals and conferences where these papers are typically published. The goal of this survey is to make available a one-stop ready reckoner for a researcher new to the field of sensor networks, and to motivate further research in this field.