Mikhail Afanasyev, PhD Post-doctoral researcher at ICT Centre, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia 5th year PhD student at SysNet, CS Department, University of California, San Diego Advisor: Alex Snoeren Email: mafanasyev AT gmail Location: Boston, MA Location: CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia Location: EBU-3b, room 3140, UCSD

PhD 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

• Privacy-preserving Network Forensics
  Mikhail Afanasyev, Tadayoshi Kohno, Justin Ma, Nick Murphy, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, and Geoffrey M. Voelker.
  To appear in Communications of the ACM
  May 2011

• Radio diversity for reliable communication in WSNs Branislav Kusy, Christian Richer, Mikhail Afanasyev, Wen Hu, Raja Jurdak, Micheal Bruenig, David Abbott, Cong Huynh and Diethelm Ostry
  Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
  Chicago, IL, April 2011. To appear.
  

• Usage Patterns in an Urban WiFi Network
  Mikhail Afanasyev, Tsuwei Chen, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Alex C. Snoeren.
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  Volume 18, Number 5, October 2010. Pages 1359-1372.
  

• Heterogeneous Traffic Performance Comparison for 6LoWPAN Enabled Low-Power Transceivers
  Mikhail Afanasyev, Damien O’Rourke, Branislav Kusy and Wen Hu
  Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmnets)
  Killarney, Ireland, January 2010.
  

• 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

• Shooting gallery robot: 1st place in DefConBots 2008, Robogames 2008
• Automated antenna rotators
• CSE Computerized soda machine
• Other hardware hacks