K. Shashi Prabh

Contact information

Real-Time Systems Research Center
School of Engineering
Polytechnic Institute of Porto
Rua Dr. Antonio Bernardino de Almeida , 431
4200-072 Porto.
Portugal

email: prabh@ieee.org

Education

2007   Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Dissertation: Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks
2001   M.S., Computer Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
Thesis: Performance of BLACKBOX Planning System on a Hard Problem of Satisfiability
1998   M.S., Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
Thesis: Collective Modes of Dipole Oscillations in Dusty Plasmas
1995   M.Sc., Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Thesis: Raman Scattering in II-VI Semiconductors
1993   B.Sc. (Hons.), Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
Minors: Mathematics and Statistics

Appointments held

2007-   Research Scientist, Polytechnic Institute of Porto
2007   Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
(Dates: 02/2007-11/2007; Ph.D. advisor moved from UVa to UIUC)
2001-2006   Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia
1996-1998   Teaching Assistant, Boston College

Grants and projects

2010-2013   Science and Technology Foundation, Portugal research grant
Topic: Real-time communications in backbone-based wireless sensor networks
2009-2012   The Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence (CONET), European Union
RMA Cluster. Topic: Interference assessment and resource allocation in mobile body area networks

Teaching

Fall 2009, 2010   Ubiquitous Embedded Systems - Module II
Fall 1998   Introductory Physics Laboratory I (3 sections)
Spr. 1997   Introductory Physics Laboratory II (3 sections)
Fall 1997   Introductory Physics Laboratory I (3 sections)
Spr. 1997   Introductory Physics Laboratory II (3 sections)
Fall 1996   Introductory Physics Laboratory I (2 sections)

Publications

  1. K. Shashi Prabh, Fernando Royo, Stefano Tennina, Teresa Olivares, "BANMAC: An Opportunistic MAC Protocol for Reliable Communications in Body Area Networks," DCOSS 2012: Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, Hangzhou, China, To appear.
  2. Claro Noda, K. Shashi Prabh, Carlo Alberto Boano, Thiemo Voigt, Mario Alves, "Quantifying the Channel Quality for Interference-Aware Wireless Sensor Networks," RTN 2011: 10th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks, Porto, Portugal. Also appears in The ACM SIGBED Review, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 43-48, 2011.
  3. K. Shashi Prabh, Jan-Hinrich Hauer, "Opportunistic Packet Scheduling in Body Area Networks," EWSN 2011: Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, Bonn, Germany, 114-129.
  4. K. Shashi Prabh, "Bandwidth Allocation in Hexagonal Wireless Sensor Networks for Real-Time Communications," ICNSC 2011: Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Delft, The Netherlands, 457-462.
  5. K. Shashi Prabh, Chinamy Deshmukh, Shikhar Sachan, "A Distributed Algorithm for Hexagonal Topology Formation in Wireless Sensor Networks," ETFA 2009: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Mallorca, Spain, 1-7.
  6. Bjorn Andersson, K. Shashi Prabh, "Localizing Objects in Large-Scale Cyber-Physical Systems," CPS-CA 2008: Invited Paper in the International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Challenges and Applications, held in conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2008), Santorini Island, Greece, 1-4.
  7. Eduardo Tovar, Bjorn Andersson, Nuno Pereira, Mario Alves, K. Shashi Prabh, Filipe Pacheco, "Highly Scalable Aggregate Computations in Cyber-Physical Systems," RTN 2008: The 7th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks, Prague, Czech Republic, 31-36.
  8. K. Shashi Prabh, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, "On Scheduling and Real-Time Capacity of Hexagonal Wireless Sensor Networks," ECRTS 2007: Proceedings of the 19th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, Pisa, Italy, 136-145.
  9. K. Shashi Prabh, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, "Energy Conserving Data Cache Placement in Sensor Networks," The ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 178-203, 2005.
  10. Tarek F. Abdelzaher, K. Shashi Prabh, Raghu Kiran, "On Real-Time Capacity Limits of Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks," RTSS 2004: Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, 359-370.
  11. Sagnik Bhattacharya, Hyung Kim, K. Shashi Prabh, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, "Energy-Conserving Data Placement and Asynchronous Multicast in Wireless Sensor Networks," MobiSys 2003: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on mobile systems, applications and services; San Francisco, USA, 173-185.

Service to the profession

Program committees

Refereeing

Journals
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Computer Networks, Transactions on Computers, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Real-Time Systems, Performance Evaluation, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
Conferences
International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS: 2009, 2010), Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS: 2008, 2009, 2012), Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS: 2008, 2009, 2010), International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS: 2008, 2011), Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS: 2007, 2008, 2009), International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA: 2006).