Jothi Prasanna Shanmuga Sundaram PhD Candidate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Merced E-mail: jshanmugasundaram@ucmerced.edu

Research Interests

I am interested in exploring the requirements of emerging communication paradigms to design and develop novel protocols while optimizing them using their intrinsic properties. Currently, I contribute to the IEEE P3388 working group, focusing on standardizing performance assessment and measurements for industrial wireless systems.

Technical Skills

• Languages : C, Python, Go, NodeJS
• Technologies : IEEE 802.11ah, IEEE 802.15.4 and LoRa LPWAN.
• Simulators : NS-3, OPNET, TOSSIM, OverSim P2P Network Simulator.
• Embedded OS : Linux, TinyOS, Custom Kernel Compilation.
• Virtualization Tools : Docker, Vagrant.
• Networking Protocol Development: MAC & upper layers, Channel/Network Coding, AI/ML assisted protocols, P2P Overlay Networking.
• Embedded wireless IoT node bring-up.
• Applied AI/ML for Wireless Communications.
• Applied Blockchain for IoT Applications.

Education and experience

• 2018 - now:
  • PhD Candidate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Merced
  
  
  • Research and Teaching Assistant, Computer Science and Engineering, UC Merced
  
  
  • 2024/05 - 2024/08:
  Research Intern, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  Project: Blockchain Solutions for Factory Automation
  
  
  • 2022/05 - 2022/08:
  Research Intern , Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  Project : Advanced Networking Technologies
  Contribution : Dynamic Relay Point (DRP) protocol.
  Yield : 1 Conference paper (IEEE ISIT 2023) and 1 US Patent filed.
  
  
• 2015 - 2017: Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, SRM University, India
  • 2017/02 - 2017/07: Visiting Student/Research Assistant, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  
  
• 2011 - 2015: Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University, India

US Patents

1. Rateless Erasure Coding for Multi-Hop Broadcast Transmission in Wireless IoT Network
   Jianlin Guo, Jothi Prasanna Shanmuga Sundaram, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Pu Wang, Kieran Parsons, Philip Orlik, Takenori Sumi, and Yukimasa Nagai.
   U.S. Patent Application No. 18/124,102, Filed: March 21, 2023 (Pending).

Publications

2018 - now:

1. MARS: Multi-radio Architecture with Radio Selection using Decision Trees For Emerging Mesoscale CPS/IoT Applications
   Jothi Prasanna Shanmuga Sundaram, Arman Zharmagambetov, Magzhan Gabidolla, Miguel A. Carreira-Perpinan, Alberto Cerpa.
   arXiv e-print, arXiv:2409.18043, 2024 [pdf]
   
   
2. Rateless Erasure Coding for Multi-Hop Broadcast Transmission in Wireless IoT Network
   Jianlin Guo, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Pu Wang, Kieran Parsons, Philip Orlik, Jothi Prasanna Shanmuga Sundaram, Takenori Sumi, and Yukimasa Nagai.
   In IEEE ISIT 2023. [pdf]
   
   
3. Poster Abstract: On the feasibility of an IoT Multi-Radio Architecture for Smart Buildings
   Jothi Prasanna Shanmuga Sundaram & Alberto E. Cerpa
   In ACM BuildSys, 2020. [pdf] [Teaser video] [Full video]
   
   
4. A Survey on LoRa Networking: Research Problems, Current Solutions and Open Issues.
   Jothi Prasanna Shanmuga Sundaram, Wan Du, Zhiwei Zhao.
   IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, October 2019. [pdf]
   
   
5. Resilience Bounds of Sensing-Based Network Clock Synchronization.
   Rui Tan, Linshan Jiang, Arvind Easwaran, Jothi Prasanna Shanmuga Sundaram.
   In IEEE ICPADS, 2018. [pdf] [slides]
   
   

2016 - 2017:
1. Performance Analysis of CREIDO Enhanced Chord Overlay Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.
   Bhalaji Natarajan, Jothi Prasanna Shanmuga Sundaram, Parthiban Natarajan.
   Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer, 2017. [pdf]
   
   
2. T2WSN: Titivated Two-Tired Chord Overlay Aiding Robustness And Delivery Ratio For Wireless Sensor Networks.
   T. Peer Meera Labbai and Jothi Prasanna Shanmuga Sundaram.
   Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, 2016. [pdf]
   
   
3. Analysis of Creido Enhanced Chord Overlay Protocol Under Different Movement Models in Delay Tolerant Networks.
   Umaparvathi, Bhalaji Natarajan, Jothi Prasanna Shanmuga Sundaram, Parthiban Natarajan.
   Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, 2016. [pdf]
   

Professional services

• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
• Reviewer, IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
• Mentor, Pathway to PhD program, NSF IoT4Ag, 2024.
• Student Volunteer, IPSN 2022
• Student Volunteer, SenSys/BuildSys 2020

Awards and honors

• Grad Excel Peer Mentor Award, UC Merced, 2021, 22
• EECS Bobcat Summer Fellowship, UC Merced, 2019,20,21
• Master's Merit Scholarship, SRM University, 2015-2017
• Bachelor's Merit Scholarship, Central Goverment of India, 2011-2015