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 Dr. Arjuna Sathiaseelan
Senior Research Associate
E-mail: firstname dot surname (cl.cam.ac.uk)
Tel: +44 (0)1223 763781

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Bio

Dr Arjuna Sathiaseelan is a Senior Research Associate at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Along with Prof. Jon Crowcroft he leads work on LCD-Net: Lowest Cost Denominator Networking, new Internet paradigm that architects multi-layer resource pooling Internet technologies to support new low-cost access methods that would enable free Internet connectivity to enable social inclusion. The cross-disciplinary nature of this initiative cross cutting Computer Science, Social Science, Economics, Law and Policy Research will help uncover the incentives and games that produce successful strategies for getting closer to 100% coverage of Internet access.

He is currently coordinating the EPSRC funded "PAWS: Public Access WiFi Service" project which aims to utilise the unused capacity at home broadband networks to provide free Internet access to all to access essential services. The project has several partners: Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, Rural Digital Economy Hub, BT, Georgia Tech, SamKnows, Nottingham City Council and the Highlands and Islands Enterprise.

His research interests also include architecting the Future Internet, enabling quad-play (voice, video, data, mobility) convergence, mobile systems especially inter-RAT mobility and Internet of Things. He has co-authored and contributed to several Internet standards and drafts (IETF) and contributed to the DVB-RCS2 standardization at the ETSI TM-RCS.
In the past he was a Research Fellow  (Connected Digital Economy - Rural Digital Economy hub and Networking - School of Engineering) at University of Aberdeen. He continues to be an Associate with the Center for Sustainable International Development (CSID) at Aberdeen. He was also the Convener for the ICT4D group where he conducted cross-disciplinary research to look at ICT solutions for International Development. He was also the Chief Evangelist @ United Mobile Apps, India.

Arjuna Sathiaseelan has a PhD in Networking from Kings College London (2005), MSc in Computing and Internet Systems from Kings College London (2001) and Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from NIT, Trichy, India (2000).

Key Contributions
2012-: Conceptualized and initiated the EPSRC funded Public Access WiFi Service (PAWS) project with the Computer Laboratory (Cambridge University), Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute (University of Nottingham) and the Rural Digital Economy Hub (dot.Rural, University of Aberdeen). Partners include BT, Georgia Tech, Nottingham City Council, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and SamKnows.

2010-2012: Contributed to the standardization efforts at ETSI TM-RCS on the Higher Layer Specification for DVB-RCS2 (QoS, MPLS and VLAN Support).

2006-: Influenced the standardization of several transport protocols to suit multimedia applications at the IETF (especially influenced the change to the core congestion control algorithm of TFRC (RFC5348) which obsoleted RFC 3448):

  1. Updating TCP to support Variable-Rate Traffic, G. Fairhurst and A.Sathiaseelan, work in progess, draft-ietf-tcpm-newcwv-00.txt, February 2013.

  2. Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT), S. Shalunov, G. Hazel, J. Iyengar, M. Kuehlewind, RFC 6817, December 2012 (contributor).

  3. RTP and the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP), C. Perkins, IETF RFC 5762, April 2010 (contributor).

  4. Quick-Start for DCCP, G.Fairhurst and A.Sathiaseelan, IETF RFC 5634, August 2009.

  5. Profile for DCCP Congestion Control ID 4: the Small-Packet Variant of TFRC Congestion Control, S. Floyd and E. Kohler, IETF RFC 5622, August 2009 (contributor).

  6. TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specification, S. Floyd, M. Handley, J. Padhye, J. Widmer, IETF RFC 5348, September 2008 (contributor).

  7. Faster Restart for TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC), E. Kohler, S. Floyd and A. Sathiaseelan. Expired, draft-ietf-dccp-tfrc-faster-restart-06.txt.

  8. An architecture to support explicit rate signaling over End-to-End paths, D.Lopez, E. Lochin, A. Sathiaseelan, Expired, draft-lopez-ietf-tsvwg-ipern-00.txt

 

Publications

2013

Less-than-Best Effort capacity sharing over high BDP networks with LEDBAT
N. Kuhn, O. Mehani, A. Sathiaseelan, E. Lochin, IEEE VTC Fall, Las Vegas, September 2013.

Flexible QoS Support in DVB-RCS2
Z. Hossain, A. Sathiaseelan, R. Secchi, G. Fairhurst, 5th International Conference on Personal Satellite Services (PSATS), June 2013.

LCD-Net: Lowest Cost Denominator Networking
A. Sathiaseelan, J. Crowcroft, ACM Computer Communication Review, April 2013.
Internet on the Move: Challenges and Solutions
A. Sathiaseelan, J. Crowcroft, ACM Computer Communication Review, January 2013.


2012

Enhancing TCP Performance to support Variable-Rate Traffic
A. Sathiaseelan, R. Secchi, G. Fairhurst, ACM CoNext CSWS, France, December 2012.

Public Access WiFi Service (PAWS)
A. Sathiaseelan, J. Crowcroft, M. Goulden, C. Greiffenhagen, R. Mortier, G. Fairhurst, D. McAuley, Digital Economy All Hands Meeting, Aberdeen, October 2012.

Next Generation Satellite for Enabling Universal Service Commitment
Z. Hossain, A. Sathiaseelan, L. Townsend, G. Fairhurst, C. Wallace, Digital Economy All Hands Meeting, Aberdeen, October 2012.

Evaluating Web Traffic Performance over DVB-RCS2
R. Secchi, A. Sathiaseelan and G. Fairhurst, 4th International ICST Conference on Personal Satellite Services (PSATS), Bradford, March 2012.

2011

TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) for Bursty Media Flows
A. Sathiaseelan and G. Fairhurst, Elsevier Computer Communications, Vol 34, Issue 15, pp. 1836-1847, September 2011.

The Role of Location Based Technologies in Intelligent Transportation Systems
N. Velaga and A. Sathiaseelan, Asian Journal of Information Technology, Vol 10, Issue 6, pp. 227-233, September 2011.

2010
Universal Service Provisioning using Next Generation Access Technologies
A. Sathiaseelan and G. Fairhurst, Digital Futures, Nottingham, October 2010.

Delivering Triple Play Services over Broadband Satellite Networks
G. Fairhurst, A. Sathiaseelan , C. Baudoin , E. Callejo, IET Communications, Vol 4, Issue 13, pp. 1544-1555, September 2010.

Analysing TCP and Congestion Window Validation for Bursty Traffic
I. Biswas, A. Sathiaseelan, R. Secchi and G. Fairhurst, International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, Vol 3, Issue 7, July 2010.

Transport challenges facing a Next Generation Hybrid Satellite Internet
G. Fairhurst, A. Sathiaseelan, H. Cruickshank, C. Baudoin, International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking (IJSCN), doi: 10.1002/sat.974, May 2010.

2009

TCP-R with EPDN: Handling out of Order Packets in Error Prone Satellite Networks
A. Sathiaseelan, International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, Volume 2, Issue 7, Pages 675 - 686, October 2009.

Using Quick-Start to enhance TCP Friendly Rate Control Performance in Bi-directional Satellite Networks
R. Secchi, A. Sathiaseelan, F. Potorti, A. Gotta and G. Fairhurst, International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking (IJSCN), Volume 27, Issue 3 , Pages 141 - 161, June 2009.

2008
Communications and Networking over Satellites: SatNEx Experimental Activities and Testbeds
T. Pecorella, L. Ronga, P. Barsocchi, S. Chessa, E. Ferro, A. Gotta, G. Oligeri, F. Potorti, R. Secchi, T. de Cola, A. Sathiaseelan, M. Castro, J. Rosado, C. Caini, and R. Firrincieli, International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking (IJSCN), Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 1 - 33, Nov 2008.

On TCP-friendly and Active Queue Management Interaction of Satellite Links
R. Secchi, A. Sathiaseelan and G. Fairhurst, IEEE International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications (IWSSC), Toulouse, 2008.

2007

Performance of VoIP using DCCP over a DVB-RCS Network
A. Sathiaseelan and G. Fairhurst, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, 2007.

Multimedia Congestion Control for Broadband Wireless Networks
A. Sathiaseelan and G. Fairhurst, IST Mobile Summit, Budapest, 2007.

SATSIX Architecture
L. Fan, C. Baudoin, L. Liang, A.Y. Garcia, G. Fairhurst, A. Sathiaseelan, J.A. Guerra, I. Melhus, A.Ramos, D. Perez, R. Castellot, S. Iyengar, E. C. Luis, M. C. Domingo, H. Cruickshank, Z. Sun., International Workshop on IP Networking over Next-Generation Satellite Systems, Budapest, 2007.

Next-Generation Satellite Systems with IPv6 and DVB SATSIX Approach.
L. Fan, C. Baudoin, L. Liang, A.Y. Garcia, G. Fairhurst, A. Sathiaseelan, J.A. Guerra, I. Melhus, A.Ramos, D. Perez, R. Castellot, S. Iyengar, E. C. Luis, M. C. Domingo, H. Cruickshank, Z. Sun. 25th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems, South Korea, 2007.

2006

Delivery of Multimedia Services using Broadband Satellite Networks
A. Sathiaseelan, G. Fairhurst, A. Yun, E. C. Luis, C. Baudoin, M. Mazzella, Broadband Europe, Geneva, 2006.

Using Quickstart to Improve the Performance of TFRC-SP over Satellite Networks
A. Sathiaseelan and G. Fairhurst, IEEE International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications (IWSSC), Madrid, 2006.

2005

Reorder Notifying TCP (RN-TCP) with Explicit Packet Drop Notification (EPDN)
A. Sathiaseelan and T. Radzik, International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, Volume 19, Issue 6, Pages 659 - 678, Sept 2005.

Robust TCP (TCP-R) with Explicit Packet Drop Notification (EPDN) for Satellite Networks
A. Sathiaseelan and T. Radzik, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Networking (ICN '05), Reunion Island, France, (LNCS 3421, pp. 250-257), April 2005.

2004

Improving the Performance of TCP in the Case of Packet Reordering
A. Sathiaseelan and T. Radzik, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC'04), Toulouse, France, (LNCS 3079, pp. 63-75), July 2004.

2003
RD-TCP: Reorder Detecting TCP
A. Sathiaseelan and T. Radzik, Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC'03), Estoril, Portugal, (LNCS 2720, pp.471-480), July 2003.

Using Remote Memory Paging for Handheld Devices in a Pervasive Computing Environment
A. Sathiaseelan and T. Radzik, Asian Journal of Information Technology Volume 2, Issue 1, Pages 08-12, 2003.

2000

Shifting to Virtual Classroom Paradigm using Intelligent Agents
S. V. Iyer and A. Sathiaseelan, Proceedings of the National Technical Symposium on Electronics- Advances
and Trends, Arunai Engineering College, Tiruvanamalai, India, January 2000. Awarded the second prize for the best student paper award