Jeongyeup Paek

About ENL (Embedded Networks Laboratory)

Our lab is headed by Dr. Ramesh Govindan under Department of Computer Science at Univ. of Southern California (USC) and our PhD students undertake research in the fields of Systems and Networking. The lab is well known in the systems and networking research fraternity. You can access the lab's web page with all details at http://enl.usc.edu. I am highlighting a few key points below.

Our primary focus is in networked sensing systems (colloquially Sensor Networks but it goes beyond just motes). We span our research from building novel networking architectures (Tenet), storage network databases (DIM) and routing (DCS) to developing new programing language paradigm (Kairos) for embedded networks. We also have exciting ongoing projects in the fields of reliable transport (RCRT), distributed congestion control (IFRC, WCCP), and networked Persuit Evasion Games (using the cool iRobots/Roombas) in wireless sensor networks. There is new work coming up in the fields of performance modeling and resource provisioning, Urban Tomography and congestion control in wireless networks.

What I feel the lab has to offer you is a chance to work on exciting problems in the field of networking (the complete stack from MAC to the application layer) and systems design with hands on experience. We have one of the largest online and functional wireless sensor network testbed (TutorNet: with 100 motes and 60 more to join soon). We are also putting up a 802.11 mesh network with 30 nodes (currently 14 nodes are functional under TutorNet). We have multiple contributions and contributors from our lab to TinyOS development (Tenet software suit and TinyOS 2.x design). The lab is funded by multiple grants from central and other funding agencies and has been able to receive/arrange fellowships for members.

The university itself is located in downtown Los Angeles. Life at USC is vibrant and fun apart from the research. USC and it's CS/Engineering faculty/alumnus has been contributor to a number of significant inventions e.g. Internet (ISI institute), RSA (Prof. Adelman is faculty here), Viterbi coding (used in CDMA and numerous emerging applications), etc. USNews ranking wise the Engineering Department is Ranked 7th and CS department 13th.

For more information you can email to Dr. Govindan directly or email any other lab member for a student's perspective.

(first draft of this page was written by Nilesh Mishra @ ENL)