Mikhail Afanasyev, PhD 5th year PhD student Systems And Networks Group Computer Science Department University of California, San Diego Advisor: Alex Snoeren Email: mafanasyev AT ucsd Location: EBU-3b, room 3140

Projects

• I have graduated. My dissertation is here
• I have worked on analyzing and improving bulk peer-to-peer networks such as ExOR and MORE
• I have worked on analyzing Google's free wireless network in Mountain View.
• I have worked on both firmware and kernel driver for CalRadio: software-defined 802.11 compatible radio.
• I was maintaining and enhancing Jigsaw: building-wide wireless analysys system (status page)
• My research exam was on Wireless Localization systems.
• I have analyzed the errors generated by 802.11a/g OFDM modulation schemes

Publications

• The Importance of Being Overheard: Throughput Gains in Wireless Mesh Neworks
  Mikhail Afanasyev and Alex C. Snoeren
  Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
  Chicago, IL, November 2009.
  
• Analysis of a Mixed-Use Urban WiFi Network: When Metropolitan becomes Neapolitan.
  Mikhail Afanasyev, Tsuwei Chen, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Alex C. Snoeren
  Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement (IMC 08)
  Vouliagmeni, Greece, October 2008
  
• Efficiency through Eavesdropping: Link-layer Packet Caching
  Mikhail Afanasyev, David G. Andersen, and Alex C. Snoeren
  Proceedings of the 5th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
  San Francisco, CA, April 2008.
  

• Automating Cross-Layer Diagnosis of Enterprise Wireless Networks
  Yu-Chung Cheng, Mikhail Afanasyev, Patrick Verkaik, Peter Benko, Jennifer Chiang, Alex C. Snoeren, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage
  Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference
  Kyoto, Japan, August 2007.
  

Others

• Automated antenna rotators
• CSE Computerized soda machine
• Other hardware hacks