• About my research
• About being my student
• Random questions

About my research

Our ns extensions assume familiarity with ns-2. It is our experience that these extensions do work (we use FreeBSD), though the learning curve is steep and installation is nontrivial. Unfortunately we do not have the resources to provide technical support for ns-2. However, there are a lot of tutorials and documentation on the ns-2 website. In addition, you can contact the ns-2 mailing lists with specific questions.

That said, depending on my availability for consulting, and the availability of people to whom I might subcontract such work, I may be able to get ns working on your machine as a consultant.

You're looking for Jorjeta.

The code that we didn't write (Queensland DSR, Keio DSR for FreeBSD 4.4) we obviously cannot support. Our FreeBSD code is also not supported. If you're trying to get an applicable version of FreeBSD, it's probably easiest if you download it from the FreeBSD CVS source tree. Such versions of FreeBSD may not support modern hardware.

There are some papers for which we have errata. Such errata are posted on my publications page. In this case, please check that the problem still exists in the revised version.

I know next to nothing about Linux kernel hacking. As for FreeBSD, my pathstate extensions (which include some hacking on the WaveLAN drivers) are available as source code. For Windows, you'll need the Windows DDK, and you probably want to write either a NDIS filter (miniport) or a virtual interface. I used internal Microsoft code to set this up, and no longer have the source code, so you'll have to figure it out yourself from the excellent MSDN documentation... Modified versions of my Windows code are available from Microsoft.

In many of my papers, there is a Future Work section, which you may find useful.

Sure.

Please stop using Babelfish to translate your emails.

About being my student

I will not review any applications to Computer Science until you have been accepted into the program. At that point, we can explore common research interests; please put "accepted into UIUC CS" in the Subject so I don't accidentally misclassify your email.

I do review applications to the Electrical and Computer Engineering program; however, since I haven't participated in any admissions process yet, I will not "evaluate your chances" or "look over your materials." If you have a genuine interest in what I do, you can read a few of my papers and write related, untackled problems into your statement of purpose. If you'd like to evaluate your own chances, here are the averages for GPA and GREs of graduate students who came in Fall 2005. GRE scores are percentile ranks.

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