I recently finished my PhD in the Department of Computer Science, focusing on wireless networking. The title of my dissertation was "Opportunistic Resource Management to Improve Service Performance in User-created Networks". My research addresses the challenges of enabling high-performance communication through end-user-created wireless networks. Contact E-mail: username nathomps in the cs.illinois.edu domain. Mail: MC 258 Siebel Center for Computer Science 201 N. Goodwin Avenue Urbana, IL 61801, USA Office: 3107 Siebel Center for Computer Science

Research

My research is focused on designing and implementing local and distributed algorithms and protocols to improve spontaneous wireless networking between end-users. The congestion control project for intermittently-connected networks dynamically adjusts the replication limit at individual nodes to increase network-wide delivery rates. The AGE project provides distributed, offline authentication so that end-users can safely share their broadband connection with other end-users. The PERM project dynamically schedules flows across multiple shared broadband connections to minimize latency and increase the per-node throughput.

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Publications

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Selected Publications:

• Nathanael Thompson, Riccardo Crepaldi and Robin Kravets. "Locus: A Location-based Data Overlay for DTNs".  To appear Proceedings ACM CHANTS, September 2010.
• Nathanael Thompson, Samuel Nelson, Mehedi Bakht, Tarek Abdelzaher, and Robin Kravets. "Retiring Replicants: Congestion Control for Intermittently Connected Networks". In Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM, March 2010.
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• Nathanael Thompson, Petros Zerfos, Robert Sombruski, Jens-Peter Redlich, and Haiyun Luo. "100% organic: Design and implementation of self-sustaining cellular networks". In Proceedings of ACM HotMobile, February 2008.
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• Nathanael Thompson, Haiyun Luo, Petros Zerfos, Jatinder Singh, and Zuoning Yin. "Extended abstract: Authentication on the edge - distributed authentication for a global open wi-fi network". In Proceedings ACM MobiCom, September 2007.
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• Ercan Ucan, Nathanael Thompson, and Indranil Gupta. " A piggybacking approach to reduce overhead in sensor network gossip". In Proceedings ACM MIDSENS, November 2007.
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• Nathanael Thompson, Guanghui He, and Haiyun Luo. "Flow scheduling for end-host multihoming". In Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM, April 2006.
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