Parv Venkitasubramaniam

Post-Doctoral Associate

Cornell University
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
317 Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

Email: pv45 – cornelledu
Phone: 607-255-0314

 

Short Bio

Parv received his B.Tech in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2002,  and his M.S and Ph.D degree in electrical engineering in 2005 and 2007 respectively under the advice of Prof. Lang Tong at Cornell University. He is currently a visiting Post-Doc at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Prof. Venkat Anantharam.

 

His research lies in the areas of network security, distributed compression and multiple access communication. He is particularly interested in applications of information theoretic secrecy to wireless network security, quantization for statistical inference and distributed consensus in large networks. He has received some awards for his research which include the 2005 Leonard G. Abraham Prize and a 2006 IEEE ICASSP Best Student Paper Award.

 

Publications

Anonymity in Wireless Networks

1.      "On the Anonymity of Chaum Mixes" abstract
P. Venkitasubramaniam and  V. Anantharam
submitted to 2008 IEEE Symposium on Information Theory.

2.      "Anonymous Networking for Minimum Latency in Multihop Networks" abstract
P. Venkitasubramaniam and  L. Tong
accepted to 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

3.      "Throughput-Anonymity Tradeoff in Wireless Networks under Latency Constraints" abstract
P. Venkitasubramaniam and  L. Tong
accepted to 2008 IEEE INFOCOM.

4.      “Anonymous Networking amidst Eavesdroppers” arXiv:0710.4903
P. Venkitasubramaniam, T. He and L. Tong
accepted to IEEE Transactions in Information Theory, Special Issue on Information-Theoretic Security, 2008.

5.      “Towards an Analytical Approach to Anonymous Wireless Networking” abstract
P. Venkitasubramaniam, T. He, L. Tong, and S. Wicker
accepted to IEEE Communications Magazine, June 2007, Revised Nov. 2007.

6.      “A Rate-Distortion Approach to Anonymous Networking” pdf
P. Venkitasubramaniam, and L. Tong
in Proc. Forty Fifth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Computing and Control, Monticello, IL, Sept. 2007.

7.      “Networking with Secrecy Constraints” abstract
P. Venkitasubramaniam, T. He and L. Tong
in Proc. 2006 IEEE MILCOM, Washington, DC, Oct. 2006.

8.      “Packet Scheduling against Stepping Stone Attacks with Chaff” abstract
T. He, P. Venkitasubramaniam and L. Tong
in Proc. 2006 IEEE MILCOM, Washington, DC, Oct. 2006.

9.      “Relay Secrecy in Wireless Networks with Eavesdropper” pdf
P. Venkitasubramaniam, T. He and L. Tong
in Proc. Forty Forth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Computing and Control, Monticello, IL, Sept. 2006.

 

Quantization for Distributed Estimation in Sensor Networks

10.  Quantization for Maximin ARE in Distributed Estimation” pdf
P. Venkitasubramaniam, L. Tong, and A. Swami
IEEE Transactions in Signal Processing,
Vol. 55, Issue 7, Part 2, July 2007, pp. 3596-3605.

11.  Score Function Quantization for Distributed Estimation” pdf
P. Venkitasubramaniam, L. Tong, and A. Swami
in Proc. Fortieth Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, Princeton NJ, Mar. 2006.

12.  Minimax Quantization for Distributed Maximum Likelihood Estimation” pdf
P. Venkitasubramaniam, L. Tong, and A. Swami
in Proc. 2006 IEEE Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, France, May. 2006.

13.  Quantization for Distributed Estimation in Large Scale Sensor Networks” pdf
P. Venkitasubramaniam, G. Mergen, L. Tong, and A. Swami
in Proc. Third International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, Bangalore India, Dec. 2005.

 

Cross Layer Design in Wireless Networks

14.  Cross Layer Energy Allocation in Wireless Mesh Networks” abstract
P. Venkitasubramaniam,
and L. Tong
submitted to EEE Transactions in Wireless Communications, April 2007, Revised Nov. 2007.

15.  Energy Efficient Data Collection in Sensor Networks” pdf
P. Venkitasubramaniam, and L. Tong
In Proc. Thirty Ninth Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, Baltimore, MD, Mar. 2005.

16.  Sensitivity and Coding of Opportunistic ALOHA in Sensor Networks with Mobile Access” pdf
P. Venkitasubramaniam, S. Adireddy and L. Tong
Journal for VLSI Signal Processing, Vol. 41, Issue 3, Nov. 2004, pp.329-344.

17.  Signal Processing in Random Access: A Cross-Layer Perspective” pdf
L. Tong, V. Naware and P. Venkitasubramaniam
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 21, Issue 5, Sept. 2004, pp.29-39.

18.  Sensor Networks with Mobile Access Points: Optimal Random Access and Coding” pdf
P. Venkitasubramaniam, S. Adireddy and L. Tong
IEEE Journal for Selected Areas in Communication, Vol. 22, Issue 6, Aug. 2004, pp. 1058-1068.

19.  Sensor Networks with Multiple Mobile Access Points” pdf
P. Venkitasubramaniam, Q. Zhao and L. Tong
In Proc. Thirty Eighth Annual Conference on Information Systems and Sciences, Princeton, NJ, Mar. 2004.

20.  Opportunistic ALOHA and Cross-Layer Design in Sensor Networks” pdf
P. Venkitasubramaniam, S. Adireddy and L. Tong
In Proc. 2003 IEEE MILCOM, Boston, MA, Oct. 2003.