Arjuna Sathiaseelan
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Electronics Research Group Room no F014 Fraser Noble Building University of Aberdeen AB24 3UE firstname [at]erg.abdn.ac.uk Phone : +44-1224-272780 Fax : +44-1224-272497 |
My research interests lie in architecting the Future Internet. My
vision for
the Future Internet is not limited to an Internet that connects all
sorts of devices
over all types of networks. I also envision pockets of devices
interconnected and
communicating with each other for their needs and using the Internet
when needed
or available as a major part of the future Internet architecture.
During my research
career (spanning almost a decade), I have been involved in architecting
methods
driven by the fundamental assumption that the Internet is always on and
connected.
However, time and experience has taught me not to be complacent and to
accept
certain truths: there are less privileged souls out there in this world
who still cannot
connect to the Internet (the BBC recently stated that 30% of Britain is
still not
e-enabled!). This has kindled my interests in the area of delay
tolerant networking
(DTN) and especially in the area of pocket switched networks (PSN).
Apart from academia, I am also a Chief Evangelist at United Mobile Apps Pvt LTD.
Current
Research
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Future Internet Transport: I am currently working on Future Internet Transport for satellite networks. This work has been funded by Thales Alenia Space, Tolouse. More information will follow soon.
Previous Research
- EC SATSIX Project (www.ist-satsix.org):
- Research focused on analyzing and proposing solutions to improve the performance of Triple play services (voice, video and data) using various congestion control protocols mainly DCCP over the DVB-RCS. This involved investigating IP and MAC layer issues such as QoS, scheduling and various Active Queue Management mechanisms at the terminal.
- Research led to revision of the TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) protocol specification (RFC5348, Formerly RFC3448) to make it robust for bursty applications.
- Work led to Co-author the following RFC/IETF draft:
- Quick-Start
for DCCP: IETF
RFC 5634, August 2009.
- Faster Restart for TFRC: draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-faster-restart-06, work in progess, DCCP WG.
- Also contributed to RTP and the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP), draft-ietf-dccp-rtp-07.
- Publications:
- On TCP-friendly and Active Queue Management Interaction of Satellite Links, R. Secchi, A. Sathiaseelan and G. Fairhurst, IEEE International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications (IWSSC), Toulouse, 2008.
- Performance of VoIP using DCCP over a DVB-RCS Network, A. Sathiaseelan and G. Fairhurst, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, 2007.[pdf]
- Multimedia
Congestion Control for Broadband Wireless Networks,A. Sathiaseelan and
G. Fairhurst, IST Mobile Summit, Budapest, 2007. [pdf]
- SATSIX Architecture, L. Fan, C. Baudoin, L. Liang, A.Y. Garcia, G. Fairhurst, A. Sathiaseelan, J.A. Guerra, I. Melhus, A.Ramos, D. Perez, R. Castellot, S. Iyengar, E. C. Luis, M. C. Domingo, H. Cruickshank, Z. Sun., International Workshop on IP Networking over Next-Generation Satellite Systems, Budapest, 2007.
- Next-Generation Satellite Systems with IPv6 and DVB SATSIX Approach. L. Fan, C. Baudoin, L. Liang, A.Y. Garcia, G. Fairhurst, A. Sathiaseelan, J.A. Guerra, I. Melhus, A.Ramos, D. Perez, R. Castellot, S. Iyengar, E. C. Luis, M. C. Domingo, H. Cruickshank, Z. Sun. 25th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems, South Korea, 2007.[pdf]
- Delivery of Multimedia Services using Broadband Satellite Networks, A. Sathiaseelan, G. Fairhurst, A. Yun, E. C. Luis, C. Baudoin, M. Mazzella, Broadband Europe, Geneva, 2006.[pdf]
- Using
Quickstart to Improve the Performance of TFRC-SP over Satellite
Networks, A. Sathiaseelan and G. Fairhurst, IEEE International Workshop
on Satellite and Space Communications (IWSSC), Madrid, 2006.
- EC SATNEX Project (www.satnex.org):
- Was involved in the VOTOS project.
- Publications
- Using Quick-Start to enhance TCP Friendly Rate Control Performance in Bi-directional Satellite Networks, R. Secchi, A. Sathiaseelan, F. Potorti, A. Gotta and G. Fairhurst, Accepted for publication in International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking (IJSCN).[pdf]
- Communications and Networking over Satellites: SatNEx Experimental Activities and Testbeds, T. Pecorella, L. Ronga, P. Barsocchi, S. Chessa, E. Ferro, A. Gotta, G. Oligeri, F. Potorti, R. Secchi, T.de Cola, A. Sathiaseelan, M. Castro, J. Rosado, C. Caini, and R. Firrincieli, Accepted for publication in International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking (IJSCN).[pdf]
- Involved in
multicast trial tests with collaboration from University of Surrey.
- PhD Thesis: Protocol Level Solutions for the Packet Reordering Problem [pdf]:
- Proposed proactive solutions to allow a TCP sender to determine the real cause of packet loss, allowing the sender to take appropriate measures in the case of packet reordering.
- Research work led to new transport layer protocol and network layer mechanisms.
- Publications
- TCP-R with EPDN:
Handling out of Order Packets in Error Prone Satellite Networks
A. Sathiaseelan, Int. J. Communications, Network and System Sciences, October 2009.
- Reorder Notifying TCP (RN-TCP) with Explicit Packet Drop Notification (EPDN), A. Sathiaseelan and T. Radzik, International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, Volume 19, Issue 6, Pages 659 - 678, 2005.[pdf]
- Robust TCP (TCP-R) with Explicit Packet Drop Notification (EPDN) for Satellite Networks, A. Sathiaseelan and T. Radzik, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Networking (ICN '05), Reunion Island, France, (LNCS 3421, pp. 250-257), April 2005.[pdf]
- Improving the
Performance of TCP in the Case of Packet Reordering, A. Sathiaseelan
and T. Radzik, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on
High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC'04), Toulouse,
France, (LNCS 3079, pp. 63-75),
July 2004.[pdf] - RD-TCP: Reorder
Detecting TCP, A. Sathiaseelan and T. Radzik, Proceedings of the 6th
IEEE International Conference on High Speed
Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC'03), Estoril, Portugal, (LNCS 2720, pp.471-480), July 2003.[pdf] - Also did some initial work on Pervasive Computing!
- Publications
- Using Remote
Memory Paging for Handheld Devices in a Pervasive Computing
Environment, A. Sathiaseelan and T. Radzik, Asian Journal of
Information Technology 2(1): 08-12, 2003.[pdf]
- MSc Thesis: Implementation of Routing Strategies for Switched Networks:
- Implemented and
analyzed the different routing algorithms available.
- Also implemented
and analyzed the running time complexities of the various Dynamic
Shortest Path Tree
algorithms available.
- BE Thesis: A Self Learning Intelligent Agent For Assistance in Web Browsing:
- Developed an Intelligent Agent that assists users in browsing the web.
- Publications
- Shifting to
Virtual Classroom Paradigm using Intelligent Agents, S. V. Iyer and A.
Sathiaseelan, Proceedings of the National Technical Symposium on
Electronics- Advances and Trends, Arunai Engineering College,
Tiruvanamalai, India, January 2000. Awarded the second prize for the
best student paper award.
Research
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Development of Satellite-Friendly Next Generation Transport Protocol Mechanisms (July 2009-Jan 2010), G.Fairhurst and A.Sathiaseelan. Awarded byThales Alenia Space (Tolouse, France) for a six month postdoctoral research fellowship.
Teaching
I teach the EG40GA: Software Engineering course.
Students
The PhD students whom I work with (supervised by Prof.Gorry Fairhurst):
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Md.Israfil Biswas
-
Chamil Kulatunga
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Nikhil Ninan
Previous undergraduate students I worked with, while at KCL:
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Shironi Thangaveloo
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Don Lokuadas
Personal Information
- Ph.D. (Kings College London),
2005; MSc in Computing and Internet Systems (Kings College London),
2001; B.E (National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India), 2000.