David Wetherall david dot wetherall at intel dot com 1100 NE 45th Street, 6th Floor Seattle, WA 98105 206.633.6555 206.633.6504 (fax) Administrator: Cherie Collins

Biography

David Wetherall is Director of Intel Research Seattle and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He joined Intel in 2006 to lead the Seattle lab in research on computing systems woven into the fabric of everyday life. Wetherall joined the University of Washington faculty in 1999 after receiving his Ph.D, E.E. and S.M. in computer science from MIT; he received his B.E. in electrical engineering from the University of Western Australia in 1989. His research interests are concentrated in networking and systems, especially wireless networks and mobile devices, network measurement, and the design of Internet protocols. His thesis research pioneered active networks, an architecture in which new network services can be introduced rapidly using mobile code, and for which he received the SIGCOMM Test-of-Time award in 2007. He was been recognized with an NSF CAREER award in 2002 and became a Sloan Fellow in 2004.

Research

Trustworthy Wireless: mobile and wireless devices that preserve user privacy.

WISP: RFID-based sensor networks.

Recent Publications

• "Taking the sting out of carrier sense: Interference cancellation for wireless LANs," Daniel Halperin, Tom Anderson, and David Wetherall. MobiCom 2008.
  USRP experiments of interference cancellation for Zigbee/Wifi settings.
• "An Empirical Study of UHF RFID Performance," Michael Buettner and David Wetherall. MobiCom 2008.
  A study of the low-level behavior of real RFID tags and readers.
• "Improving Wireless Privacy with an Identifier-Free Link Layer Protocol," Ben Greenstein, Damon McCoy, Jeffrey Pang, Tadayoshi Kohno, Srinivasan Seshan, David Wetherall. MobiSys 2008 (Best Paper Award).
  Encrypts all the bits including addresses, associations, other headers.
• "Studying Black Holes in the Internet with Hubble," Ethan Katz-Bassett, Harsha Madhyastha, John John, Arvind Krishnamurthy, David Wetherall, Tom Anderson. NSDI 2008.
  Internet-scale monitoring for connectivity problem spots.
• "Reducing Network Energy Consumption via Sleeping and Rate-Adaptation," Sergiu Nedevschi, Lucian Popa, Gianluca Iannaccone, Sylvia Ratnasamy, David Wetherall. NSDI 2008
  Protocols to let switches/routers sleep between packet bursts.
• "Passport: Secure and Adoptable Source Authentication," Xin Liu, Ang Li, Xiaowei Yang, and David Wetherall. NSDI 2008.
  Light-weight and granular cryptography to prevent source address spoofing.
• "Wirelessly-Charged UHF Tags for Sensor Data Collection," Daniel Yeager, Richa Prasad, David Wetherall, Pauline Powledge and Joshua Smith. IEEE RFID 2008
  A prototype of RFID meets sensor networks.