About Me
Hello! I'm Prashanth and I try to make your virtual experience safer and
more enjoyable. I regularly blog
at http://prashblog.com. My online
profiles are available
at Facebook, Linkedin. The
consequences of my recently found fondness for photography can be
found here.
I work as an Assistant Researcher in the Mobility,
Networks and Systems Group where I concentrate on Mobile
Systems and Systems
Security. Earlier, I completed my Bachelor of
Engineering from the College
of Engineering, Guindy (Anna University).
During my college days, I used to contribute to the GNOME,
LDTP
and Hackzor
projects and was a successful candidate of the Summer of Code '06
program. I completed my Final Year Project - A Semantic File
System, for my undergrad degree under the guidance of
Professor Arul
Siromoney. I have interned at Novell India and
AU-KBC.
Projects
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Nericell focuses on road and traffic
monitoring using an ensemble of mobile smartphones carried by
people in normal course. The vision is that when a user who
is participating in Nericell puts their phone in their
pocket and starts driving, software on the phone will
automatically monitor road and traffic conditions along their
drive, and convey this information to a service in the cloud
for aggregation and reporting.
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WebProfiler aims to leverage end hosts,
such as desktops, laptops, and home PCs, to detect and
diagnose failures experienced during Web browsing. The goal
is both to provide end users with insight into the nature of
network problems that they encounter, and to provide network
operators such as consumer ISPs and enterprise IT departments
visibility into the end-user experience. The system operates
by using software sensors to passively monitor existing
communication at a distributed set of end hosts, and share
these observations securely with peers to identify and alert
users about network problems.
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Rubicon
Rubicon is a work-in-progress project that
looks at mitigating code geometry attacks.
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Location Based services
I am also working on some
very preliminary work on using radio interfaces for enhancing
location based services
Publications
- Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan and Ramachandran Ramjee,
"Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road
and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones," to appear in the
6th
ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
(SenSys), Raleigh, NC, Nov 2008. BibTex
Entry
- Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N.Padmanabhan and Ramachandran Ramjee,
"Demo Abstract: Nericell - Using Mobile
Smartphones for Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions," to
appear in the Demonstration Session of
the 6th
ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys),
Raleigh, NC, Nov 2008.
- Sharad Agarwal, Nikitas Liogkas, Prashanth Mohan, Venkata
N. Padmanabhan, "WebProfiler : Cooperative Diagnosis of Web
Browsing Failures," April, 2008, TechReport
(PDF) BibTex Entry
- Prashanth Mohan, Raghuraman, Venkateswaran S and Arul
Siromoney, "Semantic File
Retrieval in File Systems Using Virtual Directories," in
the Poster Session of the 13th Annual IEEE
International Conference on High Performance
Computing, Bangalore, India, Dec 2006. BibTex Entry
- Prashanth Mohan, Aanjhan R, "Mounting of
Version Control Repositories: RepoFS," in the Poster
Session of the 13th Annual IEEE
International Conference on High Performance
Computing, Bangalore, India, Dec 2006. BibTex Entry
