Manu Bansal

I am a third year PhD Candidate in the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University, where I am part of the Stanford Networked Systems Group (SNSG). I am interested in the design of wireless networked systems. I work on the OpenRadio project with excellent advice from Prof. Sachin Katti and Prof. Phil Levis.

Prior to joining Stanford, I was at UCLA where I got an M.S. in Computer Science in 2010 working on mobility models for urban vehicular networks with Prof. Mario Gerla and Prof. Stott Parker. I graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) in 2008 with B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering. At IIT Kanpur, I worked with Prof. Bhaskaran Raman on sensor and wireless networks and Prof. Sumit Ganguly on spectral clustering for large datasets and streams.

Research

My current research focuses on building OpenRadio, an infrastructure-side radio platform that brings flexibility across the wireless network stack and allows virtualized protocol operation. Flexibility allows retargeting the same hardware to various protocol stacks tuned to different application scenarios, while virtualization allows slicing the same hardware to be used for multiple protocol stacks simultaneously. Together, these features will allow future mobile infrastructure to scale to both the wide array of heterogeneous wireless applications as well as deployment density needed to support the exponential growth rate of capacity demand.

Conference and workshop papers

Manu Bansal, Jeffrey Mehlman, Sachin Katti, Philip Levis. OpenRadio: A Programmable Wireless Dataplane. In Proc. of Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN), Aug 2012, Helsinki, Finland. [paper pdf] [talk pptx] [talk pdf]
Manu Bansal, Ankur Gupta, Manu Jose, Saurabh Trivedi, Mario Gerla. Multi-modal modeling of urban mobility. Proc. of The Third Annual Conference of The International Technology Alliance (ACITA) 2010, Sept 2010, London, UK. [pdf]

Posters

Cheng Li, Manu Bansal, Uichin Lee, Kang-Won Lee, and Mario Gerla. VsnMobSim: An Interactive Vehicular Sensor Network Simulator for Proactive Urban Monitoring. Proc. of The Third Annual Conference of The International Technology Alliance (ACITA) 2008, Sept 2008, London, UK.
Manu Bansal, Bhaskaran Raman. A PSFQ Implementation Study. Presented at Wireless Systems: Advanced Research and Development (WISARD 2007), a COMSWARE 2007 Workshop, Jan 2007, Bangalore, India. [poster pdf] [paper pdf color] [paper pdf printable]

Unpublished

An algorithm for Spectral Clustering of Data Streams (Dec 07)
Fast Spectral Clustering for Large Datasets - 1 (Jul 07)
Fast Spectral Clustering for Large Datasets - 2 (Jul 07)

The rest of me

A TinyOS Howto from my learning curve which, I believe, can save you some frustration (caution: this is from 2006).
IIT Kanpur Tae-Kwon-Do Club, where I spent 14 years training with Master Balram Yadav to become a 3rd Dan Black-Belt (Kukkiwon, WTF) and a National Referee (India).
When I played drums on a 50,000W sound output [youtube video]
Mixxer - Mixing without a Mixer! [pdf]
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Some of my best taken pictures.
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