Young-Jin Kim

• Ph.D. candidate
  Embedded Networks Laboratory,
  Computer Science Department,
  University of Southern California
• Advisor : Ramesh Govindan
• Collaborators
  Brad Karp and Scott Shenker
• Curriculum Vitae : PDF
• Contact
  3710 S. McClintock Avenue,
  Ronald Tutor Hall (RTH) 418
  Los Angeles, CA 90089
  Phone : +1 213 821 5627
  Email : youngjki at usc dot edu

RESEARCH INTEREST

• Multi-hop/Ad-hoc Routing
• Wireless Networks : Sensors and Mesh
• Emerging Radios : ZigBee, WiFi, WiMax, and 3G/4G Celluar

RESEARCH PROJECT

• Research at ENL : Data-centric Storage and Routing
  • CLDP/LCR: Geographic Routing Systems
  • DIM: Distributed Indexing for Multi-dimensional data
• Software Design for Network Systems at Samsung Electronics
  • WiMAX: Access control router for mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e)
  • WCDMA: SGSN/GGSN for 3G-celluar networks
  • ATM: Protocols and connection control for ATM networks

EDUCATION

• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Networks, Aug.2001 ~ Present
• Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
  Master of Science in Computer Science, Computer&Communication, Mar.1992 ~ Feb.1994
• Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
  Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Mar.1988 ~ Feb.1992

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Embedded Networks Laboratory, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
  Researcher, in Wireless Networks, Jan. 2003 ~ Present
• Telecommunication R&D Center, Samsung Electronics, Seoul, Korea
  Sr. Software Engineer, in Mobile WiMAX(WiBro) System Lab., Jan. 2007 ~ Sep. 2007
  Sr. Software Engineer, in UMTS System Lab., Jan. 1998 ~ Jul. 2001
  Software Engineer, in ATM System Lab., Feb. 1994 ~ Dec. 1997

PUBLICATION

• "Lazy Cross-Link Removal for Geographic Routing", Young-Jin Kim, Ramesh Govindan, Brad Karp, Scott Shenker, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys), Nov. 2006 [PDF]
• "On the Pitfalls of Geographic Face Routing", Young-Jin Kim, Ramesh Govindan, Brad Karp, Scott Shenker, Proceedings of the Third ACM/SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing (DIAL-M-POMC 2005), Sep. 2005 [PDF]
• "Geographic Routing Made Practical", Young-Jin Kim, Ramesh Govindan, Brad Karp, Scott Shenker, Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, May 2005 [PDF]
• "Reduced State Routing in the Internet", Ramakrishna Gummadi, Nupur Kothari, Young-Jin Kim, Ramesh Govindan, Brad Karp, Scott Shenker, Proceedings of Hotnets-III, 2004 [PDF]
• "Multi-dimensional Range Queries in Sensor Networks", Xin Li, Young-Jin Kim, Ramesh Govindan, Wei Hong, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys), Nov. 2003 [Gzip-ped PostScript]

MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION

• "Practical and robust geographic routing in wireless networks", Young-Jin Kim, Ramesh Govindan, Brad Karp, Scott Shenker, Poster: ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys), Baltimore, MD, Nov. 2004 [PDF]
• "Practical and robust geographic routing in wireless networks", Young-Jin Kim, Ramesh Govindan, Brad Karp, Scott Shenker, Technical Report 04-832, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2004 [Gzip-ped PDF]
• "Transport Application Node Design for UMTS packet networks", Young-Jin Kim, Samsung Electronics Internal Journal, 2000
• "Research on channel allocation in ATM networks", Young-Jin Kim, Summer Conference by Korea Institute of Communication Society, 1996

PRESENTATION

• Young-Jin Kim.ACM SenSys'06 conference talk. Boulder, CO, Nov. 2006.
• Young-Jin Kim.USENIX NSDI'05 conference talk. Boston, MA, May 2005.
• Young-Jin Kim.CENS Poster at 3rd Annual Research Review. UCLA, CA, Oct. 2005.
• Young-Jin Kim.ACM SenSys'04 Poster. Baltimore, MD, Nov. 2004.

SOFTWARE

• GPSR for Linux hosts [download]
• CLDP combined with GPSR and GOAFR+ for TinyOS based sensors [download]

SKILL INVENTORY

• Languages : C/C++, nesC , Perl, Java
• Operating Systems: Linux, TinyOS, Real Time OS [pSOS, VxWorks]
• S/W Methodology: UML, Rational Rose
• Network Protocols
  • Internet Protocols: TCP/IP, Mobile IP, OSPF, BGP, SIP, DCCP, AAA
  • Wireless Protocols: ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4), GPSR/UMTS, WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e)