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Kaushik Roy Chowdhury is Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University since September 2009. He received his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in August 2009, under the guidance of Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz. He completed his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati in 2006, being advised by Prof. Dharma Agrawal. Previously, he received his B.E. in 2003 from the University of Mumbai.

Dr. Chowdhury has won the best paper award at the Ad Hoc and Sensor Network symposium in the IEEE ICC 2009 conference. He was also given the outstanding M.S. thesis award jointly by the ECE and CS departments at the University of Cincinnati in 2006, and the BWN researcher of the year award during his Ph.D. in 2007.

Dr. Chowdhury currently serves as the Vice President of the IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation, and Area Editor for the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks and Elsevier Computer Communications journal.

His research interests lie in:

* Cognitive Radio (CR) Networks: Spectrum sensing, spectrum sharing, interference avoidance, and policy issues for dynamic spectrum access. Design and experimentation of MAC, routing and transport protocols for distributed networks. Coexistence in TV white spaces.

* Energy Harvesting Networks: Radio frequency energy harvesting. Link and network layer design with energy-aware duty cycling. Use of wireless energy transfer. Energy provisioning and resource management.

* Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks (WMSNs): Design of WMSN architectures and testbeds. Tradeoffs between energy consumption and event detection accuracy, interfacing issues with external networks, end-to-end reliability.

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We gratefully acknowledge the support from the following agencies and companies for our research.

US National Science Foundation

MathWorks

JOURNALS & MAGAZINES

CONFERENCES

BOOK CHAPTERS

23. G. Schirner, D. Erdogmus, K. R. Chowdhury, and T. Padir, ``The Future of Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems," IEEE Computer, accepted, November 2012.

22. P. Nintanavongsa, R. Doost-Mohammady, M. D. Felice, and K. R. Chowdhury, ``Device Characterization and Cross-layer Protocol Design for RF Energy Harvesting Sensors," Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, accepted, October 2012.

21. G. Ning and K. R. Chowdhury, ``Licensed User Activity Estimation and Track in Mobile Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks," Elsevier Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal, accepted, October 2012.

20. R. Doost-Mohammady and K. R. Chowdhury, ``Transforming Healthcare and Medical Telemetry through Cognitive Radio Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 19, no. 4, August 2012.

19. K. R. Chowdhury, M. D. Felice, and I. F. Akyildiz, ``TCP CRAHN: A Transport Control Protocol for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, accepted, 2012.

18. M. D. Felice, R. Doost-Mohammady, K. R. Chowdhury, and L. Bononi, ``Smart Radios for Smart Vehicles: Cognitive Vehicular Networks," IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine - special issue on Applications of Cognitive Radio Networks, vol. 7, no. 2, June 2012. PDF

17. P. Nintanavongsa, U. Muncuk, D. R. Lewis, and K. R. Chowdhury, ``Design Optimization and Implementation for RF Energy Harvesting Circuits," IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, vol. 2, no.1, March 2012. PDF

16. M. D. Felice, K. R. Chowdhury, W. Kim, A. Kassler, , and L. Bononi, ``End-to-end Protocols for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks: An Evaluation Study," Performance Evaluation (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 68, no. 9, September 2011. PDF

15. K. R. Chowdhury and I. F. Akyildiz,``CRP: A Routing Protocol for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks ,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 29, no. 4, April 2011. PDF

14. K. R. Chowdhury and I. F. Akyildiz,``OFDM based Common Control Channel Design for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks,'' IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 228 - 238, February 2011. PDF

13. K. R. Chowdhury and T. Melodia,``Platforms and Testbeds for Experimental Evaluation of Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks,'' IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 48, no. 9, Sept. 2010. PDF

12. C. Cormio and K. R. Chowdhury, ``Common Control Channel Design for Cognitive Radio Wireless Ad Hoc Networks using Adaptive Frequency Hopping,'' Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 430-438, June 2010. PDF

11. K. R. Chowdhury and M. D. Felice, ``SEARCH: A Routing Protocol for Mobile Cognitive Radio Ad-hoc Networks,'' Computer Communications (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 32, no. 18, pp. 1983-1997, December 2009. PDF

10. C. Cormio and K. R. Chowdhury, ``A survey on MAC Protocols for Cognitive Radio Networks,'' Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal, vol.7, no.7, pp. 1315-1329, September 2009. PDF

9. I. F. Akyildiz, W-Y. Lee, and K. R. Chowdhury, ``Spectrum Management in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks,'' IEEE Networks Magazine-Special Issue on Networking over Multi-Hop Cognitive Networks, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 6-12, July 2009. PDF

8. I. F. Akyildiz, W-Y. Lee, and K. R. Chowdhury,``CRAHNs: Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks,'' Ad Hoc Networks Journal, (Elsevier), vol.7, no.5, pp. 810-836, July 2009. PDF

7. K. R. Chowdhury, P. Chanda, D. P. Agrawal, and Q. A. Zeng,``Channel Allocation and Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks'' Ad Hoc Networks Journal, (Elsevier) , vol.7, no.2, pp. 307-321, March 2009. PDF

6. I. F. Akyildiz, T. Melodia, and K. R. Chowdhury, ``Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: Applications and Testbeds,'' Proceedings of the IEEE , vol.96, no.10, pp. 1588-1605, October 2008. PDF

5. K. R. Chowdhury and I. F. Akyildiz,``Cognitive Wireless Mesh Networks with Dynamic Spectrum Access,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol.26, no.1, pp. 168-181, January 2008. PDF

4. I. F. Akyildiz, T. Melodia, and K. R. Chowdhury, ``Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: A Survey,'' IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine , vol.14, no.6, pp. 32-39, December 2007. PDF

3. T. Banerjee, K. R. Chowdhury, and D.P. Agrawal, ``Using Polynomial Regression for Data Representation in Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Wiley Intl. Journal of Communication Systems, vol.20, no.7, pp. 829-856, July 2007.

2. I. F. Akyildiz, T. Melodia, and K. R. Chowdhury, ``A Survey on Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks,'' Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, vol.51, no.4, pp. 921-960, March 2007. PDF

1. R. Biswas, K. R. Chowdhury, and D.P. Agrawal, ``Attribute Allocation and Retrieval Scheme for Large Scale Sensor Networks,'' Springer Intl. Journal of Wireless Information Networks, vol.13, no.4, pp. 303-315, October 2006. PDF

31. A. H. Coarasa, P. Nintanavongsa, S. Sanyal, and K. R. Chowdhury, ``Impact of Mobile Transmitter Sources on Radio Frequency Wireless Energy Harvesting," in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), San Diego, California, January 2013.

30. Abdulla Al-Ali and K. R. Chowdhury, ``TFRC-CR: An Equation-based Transport Protocol for Cognitive Radio Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) Workshop on Computing, Networking and Communications (CNC), San Diego, California, January 2013.

29. G. Eichinger, K. R. Chowdhury and M. Leeser, ``Cognitive Radio Universal Software Hardware," in Proc. of IEEE DySPAN, demonstration session, Bellevue, Washington, USA, Oct. 2012.

28. G. Eichinger, K. R. Chowdhury and M. Leeser, ``CRUSH: Cognitive Radio Universal Software Hardware," in 22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Oslo, Norway, August 2012.

27. R. Doost-Mohammady and K. R. Chowdhury, ``Design of Spectrum Database Assisted Cognitive Radio Vehicular Networks," in Proc. of 7th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CrownCom), Stockholm, Sweden, June 2012.PDF

26. R. Doost-Mohammady and K. R. Chowdhury, ``Enhancing Wireless Medical Telemetry through Dynamic Spectrum Access," in Proc. of IEEE ICC, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012. (Best Paper Award)PDF

25. J. Ventura and K. R. Chowdhury, ``Markov Modeling of Energy Harvesting Body Sensor Networks," in Proc. of IEEE PIMRC, Toronto, Canada, September 2011.PDF

24. M. Di Felice, K. R. Chowdhury, L. Bononi, ``Cooperative Spectrum Management in Cognitive Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2011), Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 14-16, 2011. PDF

23. M. Di Felice, K. R. Chowdhury, L. Bononi,`` Learning with the Bandit: A Cooperative Spectrum Selection Scheme for Cognitive Radio Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Globecom, Houston, USA, December 5-9, 2011. PDF

22. M. Di Felice, K. R. Chowdhury, A. Kassler, L. Bononi, ``Adaptive Sensing Scheduling and Spectrum Selection in Cognitive Wireless Mesh Networks," in Proc. of the IEEE ICCCN, Maui, Hawaii, August 1-4, 2011, pp. 1-6. PDF

21. K. R. Chowdhury, M. D. Felice, R. Doost, W. Meleis and L. Bononi ``Cooperation and Communication in Cognitive Radio Networks based on TV Spectrum Experiments,'' Proc. of IEEE WoWMoM, Lucca, Italy, June 2011. PDF

20. K. R. Chowdhury, M. D. Felice, and L. Bononi ``CORAL: Spectrum Aware Admission Policy in Cognitive Radio Mesh Networks,'' Proc. of IEEE Globecom, Miami, Fl, December 2010. PDF

19. M. Di Felice, K. Chowdhury, L. Bononi, ``Analyzing the Potential of Cooperative Cognitive Radio Technology on Inter-Vehicle Communication," in Proc. of the IFIP Wireless Days 2010 (invited paper), Venice, Italy, October 2010. PDF

18. R. Doost, K. R. Chowdhury, and M. D. Felice ``Routing and Link Layer Protocol Design for Sensor Networks with Wireless Energy Transfer,'' Proc. of IEEE Globecom, Miami, Fl, December 2010. PDF

17. M. D. Felice, K. R. Chowdhury, W. Meleis, and L. Bononi ``To Sense or To Transmit: A Learning-based Spectrum Management Scheme for Cognitive Radio Mesh Networks,'' Proc. of IEEE WiMesh (in conjunction with IEEE SECON), Boston, MA, USA, June, 2010. PDF

16. M. D. Felice, K. R. Chowdhury, C. Wu, W. Meleis, and L. Bononi ``Learning-based Spectrum Selection in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks,'' Proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, Lulea, Sweden, June, 2010. PDF

15. C. Wu, K. R. Chowdhury, M. D. Felice and W. Meleis ``Spectrum Management of Cognitive Radio Using Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning,'' Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Toronto, Canada, May, 2010. PDF

14. C. Cormio and K. R. Chowdhury ``An Adaptive Multiple Rendezvous Control Channel for Cognitive Radio Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,'' Proc. of IEEE PerCom Workshops, Mannheim, Germany, March-April, 2010. PDF

13. K. R. Chowdhury, M. D. Felice, and L. Bononi ``A Fading and Interference Aware Routing Protocol for Multi-channel Multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks,'' Proc. of the 6th ACM Symposium on Perf. Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, pp. 1-8, October, 2009. PDF

12. M. D. Felice, K. R. Chowdhury, and L. Bononi ``Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Transmission Control Protocol over Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks,'' Proc. of ACM MSWIM Conference, pp. 4-12, Spain, October, 2009. PDF

11. K. R. Chowdhury and I. F. Akyildiz ``Interferer Classification, Channel Selection and Transmission Adaptation for Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Proc. of IEEE International Conf. on Comm. (ICC), Dresden, Germany, June 2009. (Best Paper Award) PDF

10. K. R. Chowdhury and M. D. Felice ``SEARCH: A Routing Protocol for Mobile Cognitive Radio Ad-hoc Networks,'' Proc. of IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, pp. 1-6, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, March 2009. PDF

9. K. R. Chowdhury, M. D. Felice, and I. F. Akyildiz ``TP-CRAHN: A Transport Protocol for Cognitive Radio Ad-hoc Networks,'' Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, pp. 2482-2490, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009. PDF

8. N. S. P. Nandiraju, H. Gossain, D. Cavalcanti, K. R. Chowdhury, and D. P. Agrawal ``Achieving Fairness in Wireless LANs by Enhanced IEEE 802.11 DCF,'' Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Wireless and Mobile Computation, Networking and Comm., (WiMob), Montreal, Canada, June 2006. PDF

7. K. R. Chowdhury, N. S. P. Nandiraju, D. Cavalcanti, and D. P. Agrawal ``CMAC-A Multi-Channel Energy Efficient MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Proc. of IEEE Wireless Comm. and Networking Conf. (WCNC), Las Vegas, USA, April 2006. PDF

6. R. Biswas, K. R. Chowdhury, and D. P. Agrawal ``Optimal Data-centric Attribute Allocation and Retrieval (DCAAR) Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Washington D.C, November 2005. PDF

5. T. Banerjee, K. R. Chowdhury, and D. P. Agrawal ``Distributed Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks by Regression Based Compression,'' Proc. of the Wkshp. on RPMSN, in conjunction with IEEE MASS, Washington D.C, November 2005. PDF

4. K. R. Chowdhury, P. Chanda, D. P. Agrawal, and Q. A. Zeng,``DCA-A Distributed Channel Allocation Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks'' Proc. of IEEE Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Comm. Symp. (PIMRC) , Berlin, Germany, September 2005. PDF

3. N. S. P. Nandiraju, K. R. Chowdhury, and D. P. Agrawal ``Investigation of MAC and Network Layer Fairness for Multihop Ad-hoc Networks,'' Proc. of Opnetworks, Washington D.C, August 2005.

2. R. Biswas, K. R. Chowdhury, and D. P. Agrawal ``Attribute Allocation in Large Scale Sensor Networks,'' Proc. of International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks, Trondheim, Norway, August 2005. PDF

1. T. Banerjee, K. R. Chowdhury, and D. P. Agrawal ``Tree Based Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks Using Polynomial Regression,'' Proc. of Conf. on Information Fusion, Philadelphia, July 2005. PDF

3. M. DiFelice, K. R. Chowdhury, and L. Bononi, ``Cognitive Radio Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: Design, Implementation and Future Challenges,'' Mobile Ad Hoc Networking: Cutting Edge Directions, S. Basagni, M. Conti, and S. Giordano, and I. Stojmenovic eds., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. publishers, in print, 2013.

2. W-Y. Lee, K. R. Chowdhury, and M. C. Vuran, ``Spectrum Sensing Algorithms for Cognitive Radio Networks,'' Cognitive Radio Networks, Y. Xiao, and F. Hu, Ed., Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, 2008.

1. T. Melodia and K. R. Chowdhury, ``Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks: Challenges and Solutions,'' invited book chapter in Broadband Mobile Multimedia: Techniques and Applications , Y. Zhang, S. Mao, L. T. Yang, and T. M. Chen, Eds. Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 2007.

Editorial Work for Journals

• Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Computer, to be published in September 2012

• Area Editor for Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) journal.

• Lead Guest Editor for Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) journal, Special Issue on Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc

Networks, published in 2012.

Chair for Conferences and Workshops

• Student Travel Grant Committee, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2012

• Publicity Co-chair for ACM MobiHoc 2012

• Co-chair for IEEE International Workshop on Emerging COgnitive Radio Applications and aLgorithms

(IEEE CORAL 2012)

• Vice Track Chair for IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communication Technology (ICCT), China, Sept. 2011.

• Workshop Chair for IEEE Workshop on Cognitive and Resource-aware Wireless Communications

(CRWC), held with IEEE ICCCN, Hawaii, Aug. 2011.

• Co-chair for the Workshop on New Applications and Performance of Cognitive Radio and Resource-

aware Communication Networks, held with IEEE IPCCC, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dec. 2010.

• TPC Chair for special session on Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks for the Intl. Workshop on Cognitive

Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management (CogART), Rome, Italy, Nov. 2010.

• Local Arrangements Chair for IEEE Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks

(SECON), Boston, MA, June 2010.

Technical Program Committee Member for International Conferences and Workshops

• IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2013.

• Intl. Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2012.

• IEEE Intl.Conf. on Communications (ICC), 2011, 2012.

• IEEE Intl. Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2011.

• IEEE Intl. Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT), 2011.

• IEEE Intl. Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2011.

• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2011, 2012.

• IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2011.

• ACM Intl. Conf. on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), 2010,

2011.

• IEEE Workshop on Emerging Densely Connected Networks, held with IEEE Consumer Communications

and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2011.

• IEEE Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and AdHoc Communications and Networks (SECON), 2010, 2011, 2012.

• IFIP Intl. Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), 2011, 2012.

• IEEE Intl. Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2010.

• IEEE Intl. Conf. on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Gaithersburg, 2010.

• IFIP Wireless Days Conf., Venice, 2010.

• IEEE Multimedia Communications & Services (MCS) Workshop, held with IEEE GLOBECOM, 2010.

• Autonomic Wireless Networking Workshop, held with Intl. Wireless Communications and Mobile

Computing Conf. (IWCMC), 2009.

Reviewer for Journals

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Letters, Computer Networks (Elsevier), Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), Wireless Comm. and Mobile Computing (Wiley), Wireless Networks Journal (Kluwer)

Reviewer for Major Conferences and Workshops (Selected)

IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and AdHoc Communications and Networks (SECON), IEEE Intl. Conf. on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Wireless Days (WD), ACM Intl. Conf. on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), IEEE Intl. Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), IEEE Military Communications Conf. (MILCOM), IEEE Intl. Conf. on Circuits & Systems for Communications (ICCSC), Intl. Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC)

Reviewer for Grant Funding Award

• US Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Award proposal reviewer, 2011

• National Science Foundation Panel, 2011

Northeastern University Department Service

• Member of Graduate Affairs Committee, 2011-present

• Member of the COE "Community Committee", 2011-present

• Member of Undergraduate Study Committee tasked with curriculum revision, 2010-present

• Member of the Computer Engineering faculty hiring committee, 2011

TEACHING

STUDENTS

TUTORIALS/TALKS

1. EECE 4628/4629: Computer and Telecommunications Networks- Undergraduate course which presents the fundamentals of networks using the Internet as an example. This course has a lab component where students implement classroom concepts in a practical environment.

- Fall 2009, Spring 2010, 2011, 2012

2. EECE 7398: Special Topics: Wireless Cognitive Radio Networks- Advanced graduate course on the spectrum-aware operation of wireless networks, with emphasis on the inter-disciplinary nature of the topic. The course includes applications of machine learning, algorithms, communication theory and protocol design for dynamic spectrum access networks.

- Fall 2010

3. EECE 7364: Mobile and Wireless Networks- Graduate course covering the basics as well as advanced topics in wireless communication and networking, beginning with various generations of cellular systems, covering 802.11 flavors, and relevant topics such as sensor networking, personal area networks, ad hoc networks, among others.

- Spring 2012

Current Ph. D. Students

• Rahman Doost-Mohammady

• Abdulla Al Ali

• Prusayon Nintanavongsa

• Jingzhi Yu

• Yousof Naderi

• Farimah Mapar

Current M.S. Thesis Students

• Ufuk Munchuk

• David Lewis

• Naveen Manikandan, Periasamy