Anmol Sheth anmol.n.sheth at intel.com 1100 NE 45th Street, 6th Floor Seattle, WA 98105 206.633.9901 206.633.6504 (fax) Administrator: Cherie Collins

Biography

Anmol Sheth joined Intel Research Seattle in June 2007. His research interests span the broad area of wireless systems. His current research focuses on understanding the physical layer implications of security and privacy in wireless networks. Anmol's prior research dealt with diagnosing performance degradation faults in distributed wireless systems and building high performance long distance WiFi networks. Anmol received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2007.

Projects

Trustworthy Wireless: Mobile and wireless devices that preserve user privacy

WiLDNet: WiFi based Long Distance Networks

SenSlide: A sensor network based landslide prediction system

CU Phased Array Antenna Testbed

Professional Activities

PC Member: MobiHoc 2010 , MobiQuitous 2009 Co-chair: WiNMee 2009

Recent Publications

A full list is available here

• "802.11 With Multiple Antennas for Dummies" [pdf]
  Dan Halperin, Wenjun Hu, Anmol Sheth, David Wetherall
  CCR 2010
  Short tutorial on 802.11n based MIMO targeted for networking researchers.
  
• "DIRC: Increasing Indoor Wireless Capacity Using Directional Antennas" [pdf]
  Xi Liu, Anmol Sheth, Michael Kaminsky, Konstantina Papagiannaki, Srini Seshan, Peter Steenkiste
  SIGCOMM 2009
  Uses steerable directional antennas to increase spatial reuse in indoor wireless networks.
  
• "Geo-fencing: Confining Wi-Fi Coverage to Physical Boundaries" [pdf]
  Anmol Sheth, Srini Seshan, David Wetherall
  Pervasive 2009
  Uses steerable directional antennas to contain Wi-Fi coverage to meaningful physical boundaries.
  
• "Privacy Oracle: A System for Finding Application Leaks Using Black-box Differential Testing" [pdf]
  Jaeyeon Jung, Anmol Sheth, Ben Greenstein, David Wetherall, Gabriel Maganis, Tadayoshi Kohno
  CCS 2008
  Reports on application leaks of user information via network traffic analysis.
  
• "WiLDNet: Design and Implementation of High Performance WiFi Based Long Distance Networks" [pdf]
  Rabin Patra, Sergiu Nedevschi, Sonesh Surana, Anmol Sheth, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Eric Brewer
  NSDI 2007.
  Link and MAC layer modifications essential to provide high throughput over multi-hop long distance WiFi networks.
  
• "Packet Loss Characterization in WiFi-based Long Distance Networks" [pdf]
  Anmol Sheth, Sergiu Nedevschi, Rabin Patra, Sonesh Surana, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Eric Brewer,
  Infocom 2007
  Measurement study that identifies external interference as dominant source of packet loss in WiLD links.
  
• "Senslide: a distributed landslide prediction system " [pdf]
  Anmol Sheth, Chandramohan Thekkath, Prakshep. Mehta, K. Tejaswi , C. Parekh , T. N. Singh , Uday Desai
  ACM SIGOPS 2007
  System that uses a network of low-cost strain sensors to predict landslides.
  
• "A Phased Array Antenna Testbed for Evaluating Directionality in Wireless Networks" [pdf]
  Michael Buettner, Eric Anderson, Gary Yee, Dola Saha, Anmol Sheth, Douglas Sicker, Dirk Grunwald
  MobiEval 2007
  Tools and experimental methodology used to evaluate directionality in a campus-wide directional antenna testbed.