Thyaga Nandagopal @ Bell Labs

Bell Labs Research

Thyaga Nandagopal

Member of Technical Staff

Networking Research Lab

Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent

600 Mountain Ave

Murray Hill, NJ 07974

Phone: +1 908-582-2761

Email: my_first_name @ alcatel-lucent (dot) com

This web page is no longer being maintained. My current web page can be found here.

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Recent News

I am the co-chairing the TPC of ACM MOBICOM 2011, along with Brian Levine of UMass.

SoftRouter-based product venture, ALU 9980 Application Intelligent Network Platform, successfully transitions to product group in January 2011.

Became a member of Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy (ALTA), a group of technology experts within Alcatel-Lucent.

Won the 2010 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award given by Research & Development Council of New Jersey.

I am a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent. I work in the Communication Protocols and Internetworking Department under T. V. Lakshman.

Research Interests

My research is primarily in the area of wireless networks and mobile computing. My current research focus is on virtualization and rich content delivery in enterprise wireless networks. I am also pursuing other work related to Internet routing architectures and routing protocol optimization.

Work@Alcatel-Lucent

One of my projects on multimedia content delivery in enterprise wireless networks was a finalist in the Entrpreneurial Boot Camp within Alcatel-Lucent. This is a process meant to encourage out-of-the-box thinking within the company. I had a great experience creating a detailed business plan for our proposal, and meeting new people from other parts of the company.

My last big engagement was with an internal venture within Bell Labs that commercialized our next generation router architecture, nicknamed the "SoftRouter". I was engaged in various roles in this project, from team lead for developing a carrier-grade Mobile IP Home Agent to developing a packet forwarding template on multi-core packet processors. We successfully transitioned it to a product group and is now known as the ALU 9980 Application Intelligent Network Platform.

The SoftRouter architecture advocates complete physical separation of the control plane from the forwarding plane in a router, while aggregating the control plane of multiple routers into a stand-alone route-server. The advantages are those of lower cost, complexity, and management, while reducing convergence times among various routing protocols in the network. You can find more architecture details in our HotNets paper.

Professional Stuff

TPC Co-Chair, ACM Mobicom 2011.

General Chair, IEEE SECON 2010, June 2010.

Program Co-Chair, IEEE WiMesh 2006.

Program Co-Chair, IEEE SECON 2005.

TPC Member of several conferences, most notably, Mobicom, Infocom, ICNP, Mobihoc, SECON.

Senior Member, IEEE

Member, ACM SIGMOBILE

Background

Education:

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2002. (My thesis.)

M.S. in Applied Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2002.

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2000. (My thesis)

A wonderful, but brief, six-month stint at University of Kansas at Lawrence. July 1997 - December 1997.

B.Engg. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India, May 1997.

Personal:

Chennai, the gateway to south India, is the place where I have spent nearly all my life in India. Illinois is my second home, having spent nearly 7 years there. The Illini are my all-time favorite college sports team (duh!). The Jersey Shore is a lot of fun in the summer, while the hills of Pennsylvania and upstate New York offer entertainment in the winter.

Fun, for me, is being outdoors, especially on a tennis court or in the water. I am a certified Scuba Diver, and I love to swim, bike and kayak. I am an avid movie buff (love Netflix), which is where you will find me in my spare time.