Souvik Sen

Biography

I am a Researcher in the Networking and Communications group of HP Labs. Before joining HPL, I received my Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Duke University in 2012. I received my undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, in 2007.   

Research interests

I am interested in the areas of wireless networking and mobile computing. 
Currently, my research focuses on exploiting physical layer (PHY) capabilities for designing wireless networking protocols. I am also investigating how PHY layer sensing, and its synergy with other sensing capabilities, can benefit mobile applications. 

Awards

• Outstanding Preliminary Examination Award, Duke University, 2011
• Winner MOBICOM Student Research Competition, 2010
• University Silver Medal, BESU, Shibpur, India, 2008  

Publications

• Avoiding Multipath to Revive Inbuilding WiFi Localization. 
  Souvik Sen, Jeongkeun Lee, Kyu-Han Kim, Paul Congdon 
  MobiSys 2013 (acceptance ratio ~17%)    
• Cooperative Packet Recovery in Enterprise WLANS. 
  Mahanth Gowda, Souvik Sen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Sung-Ju Lee. 
  INFOCOM 2013 (acceptance ratio ~17%)  
• Spot Localization using PHY layer information. 
  Souvik Sen, Bozidar Radunovic, Romit Roy Choudhury, Tom Minka. 
  MobiSys 2012 (acceptance ratio ~17%)  

• No Need to War-Drive: Unsupervised Indoor Localization 
  He Wang, Souvik Sen, Ahmed Elgohary, Moustafa Farid, Moustafa Youssef,Romit Roy Choudhury 
  MobiSys 2012 (acceptance ratio ~17%)
• SpinLoc: Spin once to know your location 
  Souvik Sen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi. 
  HOTMOBILE 2012 (acceptance ratio ~20%) 
• Precise Indoor Localization using PHY Layer Information 
  Souvik Sen, Bozidar Radunovic, Romit Roy Choudhury, Tom Minka
  HOTNETS 2011 (acceptance ratio ~20%) 
• No Time to Countdown: Migrating Backoff to the Frequency Domain 
  Souvik Sen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi
  MOBICOM 2011 (acceptance ratio ~14%)
• Listen (on the Frequency Domain) Before You Talk
  Souvik Sen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi
  HOTNETS 2010 (acceptance ratio ~21%) 
• Successive Interference Cancellation: A Back-of-the-Envelope Perspective
  Souvik Sen, Naveen Santhapuri, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi
  HOTNETS 2010 (acceptance ratio ~21%) 
• CSMA/CN: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Notification
  Souvik Sen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi 
  MOBICOM 2010 (acceptance ratio ~14%)
• AccuRate: Constellation Aware Rate Estimation in Wireless Networks
  Souvik Sen, Naveen Santhapuri, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi
  NSDI 2010 (acceptance ratio ~16%) 
• Known Interference Cancellation: Resolving Collisions due to Repeated Transmissions
  Chuan Qin, Naveen Santhapuri, Souvik Sen, Srihari Nelakuditi
  WiMesh 2010 
• Sensor Assisted Wireless Communication 
  Naveen Kumar Santhapuri, Justin Manweiler, Souvik Sen, Xuan Bao, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi 
  LANMAN 2010 (Invited Paper) 
• Moving Away from Collision Avoidance: Aborting Collisions in Wireless Networks 
  Souvik Sen, Naveen Santhapuri, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi
  HOTNETS 2009 (acceptance ratio 16%) 
• Order Matters: Transmission Reordering in Wireless Networks 
  Justin Manweiler, Naveen Santhapuri, Souvik Sen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi, Kamesh Munagala
  MobiCom 2009 (acceptance ratio ~11%) 
• Link Layer Multicasting with Smart Antennas: No Client Left Behind
  Souvik Sen, Xiong Jie, Rahul Ghosh, Romit Roy Choudhury
  ICNP 2008 (acceptance ratio ~15%) 
• Message in Message (MIM): A Case for Shuffling Transmissions in Wireless Networks
  Naveen Kumar Santhapuri, Justin Manweiler, Souvik Sen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakuditi, Kamesh Munagala
  HOTNETS 2008 (acceptance ratio 20%) 

Professional activities

• SRC Chair, MobiCom 2013
• Publicity Chair, MobiSys CellNet workshop 2013  
• Student Volunteer Chair, HotMobile 2013  
• Publicity Chair, SECON 2013  
• Co-Chair ACM S3 2011 (in conjunction with MOBICOM)
• Reviewer:
  • IEEE Transactions of Networking
  • IEEE Transactions of Mobile Computing
  • IEEE INFOCOM 2010
  • IEEE WoWMoM 2010
  • IEEE IWQoS 2010
  • IEEE MASS 2011
  • IEEE INFOCOM 2011