Research
I lead the Network Enhanced Technologies Lab (NET Lab) at BYU. I received an NSF CRII award for early career researchers in 2022 for my work on wireless subprotocols. I received the most influential faculty member award in my department in 2021. My main research focuses are mobile networks, Internet of Things, and wireless network management. I am interested in building real systems that enhance and extend wireless networks. I have experience designing, building, and deploying an in-home sensor network architecture for epidemiological studies.
For a complete listing of my research, see my curriculum vitae.
Teaching
- ECEn 224: Intro to Computer Systems (Winter 2023, Fall 2023)
- ECEN 330: Intro to Embedded Systems Programming (Fall 2019)
- ECEN 426: Computer Networks (Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023)
- ECEN 526: Wireless Networks (Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024)
Publications
Conferences
- M. Rice, H. Croft, J. Gillis, Z. Hilton, R. Kirkwood, P. Walker, , W. Harrison, “A Comparison of Two Software Defined Radios for Aeronautical Telemetry”, in Proceedings of the International Telemetering Conference, 2023.
- A. Palacios, C. Bledsoe, E. Kelsey, L Landon, J. Backman, , “Stealthy Signals: Using Ghost Modulation to Watermark Interference”, in 1st International Workshop on LEO Networking and Communication (LEO-NET), 2023.
- C. Kitras, C. Pollen, K. Myers, C. Wirthlin, , “Location Verification of Crowd-Sourced Sensors”, in IEEE International Workshop on IoT in Emerging Fields (IoTEF), 2023.
- A. Sarbhai, R. Gouripeddi, , P. Chidambaram, A. Saha, R. Madsen, J. Facelli, K. Sward, and S. K. Kasera, “Utilizing a Blockchain for Managing Sensor Metadata in Exposure Health Studies”, in Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (iETC), 2022.
- L. Alcantara, J. Miera, B. Ariun-Erdene, C. Teng, , “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Successful Re- mote Sensing Deployments in Mongolia”, in Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (iETC), 2020.
- , N. Patwari, S. K. Kasera, "On-Off Noise Power Communication", 25th Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2019
- (Best Paper Award) S. Maheshwari, , S. K. Kasera, "Scheduling Virtual WiFi Interfaces for High Bandwidth Video Upstreaming Using Multipath TCP", 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), 2019
- , K. Min, N. Patwari, S. K. Kasera, K. Kelly, J. Moore, M. Meyer, S. C. Collingwood, F. Nkoy, B. Stone, and K. Sward, "An In-Home IoT Architecture for Epidemiological Deployments", "IEEE Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications (SenseApp), 2018"
- , N. Patwari, S. K. Kasera, "STRAP: Secure TRansfer of Association Protocol", The 27th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2018
- K. Min, , N. Patwari, "Smart Home Air Filtering System: A Randomized Controlled Trial for Performance Evaluation", IEEE/ACM 3rd International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), 2018
- , M. Khaledi, M. Kano, N. Subramanyam, and S. Kasera, "Mobile Live Video Upstreaming", 28th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 28), 2016
- R. Buck, R. Lee, , and D. Zappala, "WiFu: A composable toolkit for experimental wireless transport protocols", 9th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems, 2012
- C. Lavin, M. Padilla, J. Lamprecht, , B. Nelson, and B. Hutchings, "HMFlow: Accelerating FPGA Compilation with Hard Macros for Rapid Prototyping", IEEE 19th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2011
- C. Lavin, M. Padilla, J. Lamprecht, , B. Nelson, and B. Hutchings, "RapidSmith: Do-It-Yourself CAD Tools for Xilinx FPGAs", International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2011
- C. Lavin, M. Padilla, , B. Nelson, and B. Hutchings, "Rapid prototyping tools for FPGA designs: RapidSmith", International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT), 2010
Journals
- D. Harman, K. Knapp, T. Sweat, , M. Rice, and W. Harrison, “Physical Layer Security: Channel Sounding Results for the Multi-Antenna Wiretap Channel”, in Entropy, 2023.
- C. Flowerday, , C. Kitras, T. Nguyen, J. Hansen, “Utilizing Low-Cost Sensors to Monitor In- door Air Quality in Mongolian Gers”, in Low-Cost Sensor Applications for Mobile and Urban Environment Monitoring, Sensors, 2023.
- S. Hegde, K. Min, J. Moore, , N. Patwari, S. C. Collingwood, and K. E. Kelly, “Household Indoor Particulate Matter Measurement Using a Network of Low Cost Sensors”, in Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2020.
- J. Moore, P. Goffin, , N. Patwari, K. Sward, J. Weise, M. Meyer, "Managing In-home Environments Through Sensing, Annotating, and Visualizing Air Quality Data", Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2018
- Tim Strayer, Samuel Nelson, Amando Caro, Joud Khoury, Bryan Tedesco, Olivia DeRosa, Carsten Clark, Kolia Sadeghi, Michael Matthews, Jake Kurzer, , Vikas Kawadia, Dorene Ryder, Keith Gremban, Wayne Phoel, "Content Sharing with Mobility in an Infrustructure-less Environment", Computer Networks, 2018
- B. Mager, , and N. Patwari, "Fingerprint-Based Device-Free Localization: Performance in Changing Environments", Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2015
Poster/Demos
- Chris Kitras, Ashton Palacios, , “SSS: Building a Seven Segment Sign”, in PyCon, 2023.
- Bryson Schiel, Alek Farmer, Anup Hassan Murali, Brielle Corry, and , “Informing V2I De- ployment Decisions Using Commercial Hardware-in-the-loop Testing”, in IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), 2023.
- (Best Poster Award) Chris Kitras, Carter Pollan, Kyle Myers, Camille Wirthlin, , “Location Monitoring Framework for Citizen Science Sensors”, in Air Quality: Science for Solutions, 2023.
- Callum E. Flowerday, Ryan Thalman, Matthew C. Asplund, Samuel A. Badstubner, Adam K. Cook, , Jaron C. Hansen, “Detection of Ambient Concentrations of Hydroxyl Radical using BBCEAS”, in Atmospheric Mechanisms Conference (ACM), 2022.
- , Ramkiran Gouripeddi, Mollie Cummins, Julio Facelli, and Katherine Sward, “Materializing the Air Quality Exposome: The Center of Excellence for Exposure Health Informatics”, in Air Quality: Science for Solutions, 2020.
- , Derek Hansen, and Chia-Chi Teng, “Developing an Untethered Network of Low-Power Air Quality Sensors”, in Air Quality: Science for Solutions, 2019.
- Kyeong T. Min, , and Neal Patwari, "IASA - Indoor Air Quality Sensing and Automation", 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2017