Ravi Jain

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R&D in Mobile and wireless systems, applications, networking, and performance. Network infrastructure, security, and middleware. Open programmable systems and networks. 20 years of experience in Managing R&D innovation, Technical leadership, Securing R&D funding, Technology transfer, Standards leadership, and Software teams. Fellow, IEEE Email:   ravi dot jain at acm dot org

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Experience

• Current: Mobile Engineering, Google Inc, Mountain View, CA
• DoCoMo USA Labs, NTT DoCoMo, San Jose, CA.
• Applied Research , Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore), Morristown, NJ.
• Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Sciences, Schlumberger Inc., Austin, TX.
• SES Inc., (now Hyperformix), Austin, TX.
• Software Development, Syntrex Inc., Eatontown, NJ.
• Communications and Space Science Lab (formerly Ionosphere Research Lab), Penn State University, University Park, PA.

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Education

• Ph D, Computer Sciences, Univ of Texas at Austin, 1992
• MS, Electrical Engineering, Penn State, 1982
• BS, Electronics Engineering, The City Univ, London, UK, 1980

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Papers

The main areas of my research are:

• Mobile and Wireless Networks, Applications and the Mobile Web
• Programmable and Open Networks and APIs
• Scheduling Algorithms, Parallel Computing and Parallel I/O
• Middleware and Applications
• Miscellany
  

Mobile and Wireless Networks, Applications and the Mobile Web

• A. Jindal, C. Crutchfied, S. Goel, R. Jain, R. Kolluri, The mobile Web is structurally different, IEEE Global Internet Symposium, 2008. (slides).
• R. Jain, D. Lelescu, M. Balakrishnan, Model T: a model for user registration patterns based on campus WLAN data, Wireless Networks, 13(6), 711-735, December 2007.
• R. Jain, The mobile Web in developing countries, Position paper, W3C Workshop on the Mobile Web in Developing Countries, Dec. 2006.
• S. Guha, N. Daswani, R. Jain, An experimental study of the Skype peer-to-peer VoIP system, Sixth International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), 2006. (slides).
• D. Lelescu, U. C. Kozat, R. Jain, M. Balakrishnan, Model T++: An empirical joint space-time registration model, ACM Mobihoc, 2006.
• L. Song, U. Deshpande, U. C. Kozat, D. Kotz, R. Jain, Predictability of WLAN mobility and its effects on bandwidth provisioning, IEEE Infocom, 2006.
• L. Song, U. Deshpande, U. C. Kozat, D. Kotz, R. Jain, Bandwidth reservation using WLAN handoff prediction, ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), (10) 4, 22-23, Oct 2006, based on the poster at ACM Mobicom, 2005.
• R. Jain, D. Molnar, Z. Ramzan, Towards understanding algorithmic factors affecting energy consumption: switching complexity, randomness, and preliminary experiments, ACM DIALM-POMC Workshop, 2005.
• U. C. Kozat, Y. Gwon, R. Jain, An Overlay Server System (OSS) platform for multiplayer online games, IEEE Globecom, 2006.
• R. Jain, D. Lelescu, M. Balakrishnan, Model T: an empirical model for user registration patterns in a campus wireless LAN, ACM Mobicom, 2005.
• R. Jain, D. Molnar, and Z. Ramzan, Towards a model of energy complexity for algorithms, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC ), 2005.
• C. Gentry, A. Hevia, R. Jain, T. Kawahara, and Z. Ramzan, End-to-end security in the presence of intelligent data adapting proxies: The case of authenticating transcoded streaming media, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Comm. (JSAC), 23(2), Feb. 2005.
• R. Jain, M. M. bin Tariq, J. Kempf and T. Kawahara, The All-IP next generation network architecture, in M. Etoh (ed.), Next Generation Mobile Systems: 3G and Beyond, Wiley, 2005. A short version appeared in the NTT DoCoMo Technical Journal, 5(4), Mar. 2004.
• R. Jain and X. Gao, APIs and application platforms for 4G mobile networks, in M. Etoh (ed.), Next Generation Mobile Systems: 3G and Beyond, Wiley, 2005.
• Y. Gwon, J. Kempf, R. Dendukuri, and R. Jain, Experiments on IP layer enhancements to the capacity of VoIPv6 on IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN, IEEE/ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements (WinMee), 2005.
• X. Gao, R. Jain, Z. Ramzan, U. Kozat, Resource optimization for Web Service composition, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), Jul. 2005
• N. Apte, K. Deutsch, R. Jain, Wireless SOAP: optimizations for mobile wireless Web Services, Poster, Intl. World Wide Web Conf. (WWW), 2005.
• M. M. bin Tariq, R. Jain, T. Kawahara, Mobility aware server selection for mobile streaming multimedia content distribution networks, Workshop on Web content caching and distribution, Jan. 2004. (slides).
• Y. Gwon, R. Jain, and T. Kawahara, Robust indoor location estimation for stationary and mobile users, IEEE Infocom, Mar. 2004.
• T. Suzuki, Z. Ramzan, H. Fujimoto, C. Gentry, T. Nakayama, R. Jain, A system for end-to-end authentication of adaptive multimedia content, Communications & Multimedia Security (CMS), Sep. 2004. (slides).
• Y. Gwon, R. Jain, Error characteristics and calibration-free techniques for wireless LAN-based location estimation, ACM Workshop on Mobility management & wireless access protocol (ACM MobiWac), Oct 2004.
• R. Shah, Z. Ramzan, R. Jain, R. Dendukuri, F. Anjum, Efficient dissemination of personalized information using content-based multicast, IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing, 3(4):394—408, Oct.-Dec. 2004. Won the SAIC corporation’s ESTC best paper award in Info. & Comm. Tech.
• L. Song, D. Kotz, X. He, and R. Jain, Evaluating location predictors with extensive Wi-Fi mobility data, IEEE Infocom, Mar. 2004. See also extended abstract from ACM MC2R, 7(4), 64-65, Oct. 2003, based on the poster at ACM Mobicom, 2003.
• X. Gao, X. Quan, R. Jain, T. Kawahara, G. Powell, Wireless Local Loop at the Bottom of the Pyramid, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conf. (WCNC), Mar. 2004. (slides).
• J. Trostle, H. Matsuoka, M. bin Tariq, J. Kempf, R. Jain, T. Kawahara, Cryptographically protected prefixes for location privacy in IPv6, Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET), May 2004. (slides).
• R. Jain, A. Shivaprasad, D. Lelescu, Towards a model of user mobility and registration patterns, ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), (8)4 , 59-62, Oct. 2004, based on the poster at ACM MobiHoc, 2004.
• J. Matta, C. Pépin, K. Lashkari, R. Jain, A source and channel rate adaptation algorithm for AMR in VoIP using the Emodel, ACM NOSSDAV, 2003.
• Y. Gwon, G. Fu, R. Jain, Fast handoffs in wireless LAN networks using Mobile Initiated Tunneling Handoff protocol for IPv4, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conf. (WCNC), Mar. 2003
• D. Pandya,, R. Jain, E. Lupu, Indoor location estimation using multiple wireless technologies, IEEE Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Sep. 2003. (slides).
• D. Wong, A. Dutta, J. Burns, R. Jain, K. Young, H. Schulzrinne, A multilayered mobility management scheme for autoconfigured wireless networks, IEEE Wireless Communication, 10(5), 62-69, Oct. 2003.
• C. Cheng, R. Jain and E. van den Berg, Location Prediction Algorithms for Mobile Wireless Systems, in M. Illyas and B. Furht (eds.), Handbook of Wireless Internet, CRC Press, Dec. 2002.
• R. Jain and J. R. Wullert II, Challenges: Environmental Design for Pervasive Computing Systems, ACM MobiCom, Sep. 2002.
• A. Dutta, D. Wong, J. Burns, R. Jain, H. Schulzrinne, A. McAuley, Realization of Integrated Mobility Management for Ad-Hoc Networks, IEEE MILCOM, 2002. (prepublication draft).
• R. Shah, R. Jain and F. Anjum, Efficient dissemination of personalized information using content-based multicast with mobile software filters, IEEE Infocom, 2002. (slides). See also R. Shah, R. Jain, S. Rajagopalan, F. Anjum, Mobile Filters for Efficient Dissemination of Personalized Information Using Content-Based Multicast, DIMACS Tech Report 2001-20, 2001.
• R. Jain, T. Mullen and R. Hausman, Analysis of Paris Metro Pricing strategy for QoS with a single service provider, Ninth International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2001), June 6-8, 2001.
• R. Jain, T. Mullen and R. Hausman, Paris Metro Pricing for QoS in Wireless Networks, IEEE Wireless and Opt. Comm. Conf. (WOCC), Apr. 2001. (slides)
• A. Dutta, J. Burns, K. D. Womg, R. Jain, K. Young and H. Schulzrinne, Multilayered mobility management for survivable networks , IEEE Milcom, 2001.
• F. Anjum and R. Jain, Performance of TCP over lossy upstream and downstream links with link-level retransmissions, Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Networks (ICON) 2000, Singapore, Sep. 5-8, 2000.
• F. Anjum and R. Jain, Mobile agents for personalized information retrieval: When are they a good idea?, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conf. (WCNC), Sep. 23-28, 2000. (slides)
• R. Jain, F. Anjum, A. Umar, A comparison of mobile agent and client-server paradigms for information retrieval tasks in virtual enterprises, Proc. Academia/Industry Working Conference on Research Challenges (AIWORC) in Next Generation Enterprises: Virtual Organizations and Mobile/Pervasive Technologies, Buffalo, NY, Apr. 27-29, 2000.
• R. Jain, T. Raleigh, D. Yang, L. F. Chang, C. Graff, M. Bereschinsky, and M. Patel, Mobile Internet Access: Enhancing Performance, Interoperability and Survivability, IEEE Infocom, Mar. 1999.
• R. Jain and F. Anjum, Caching in hierarchical user location databases, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Personal Wireless Comm. (ICPWC), Feb. '99.
• R. Jain, T. Raleigh, C. Graff and M. Bereschinsky, Mobile Internet access and QoS guarantees using Mobile IP and RSVP with Location Registers, IEEE International Conf. on Communications (ICC), June 1998.
• R. Jain, S. Rajagopalan, and L. F. Chang, Phone number portability for PCS systems with ATM backbones using distributed dynamic hashing, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Comm. (JSAC), 15, 1, 96-105, Jan. 1997.
• R. Jain and L. F. Chang, Towards an asymmetric air interface protocol for wireless Internet access, IEEE Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Oct. 1997.
• R. Jain, S. Rajagopalan, L. F. Chang and V. Varma, Wireless interworking architectures to support mobile IP over ATM, IEEE Globecom, 1997.
• R. Jain, A model for estimating Installed First Costs of NGPN translation in a PCS system, IEEE Intl. Conf. Comm. (ICC), June, 1997. 
• V. Gondhalekar, R. Jain and J. Werth, Scheduling on airdisks: Efficient access to personalized information services via periodic wireless data broadcast, IEEE Intl. Conf. Comm. (ICC), June, 1997. (slides)
• S. Rajagopalan, R. Jain and L. F. Chang, Mobile internetworking protocols for wireless networks with ATM backbones, IEEE Milcom, 1997.  
• R. Jain, Phone number translation delay in PCS Systems with ATM backbones, Sixth WINLAB Workshop on Third Generation Wireless Information Networks, Mar., 1997.
• R. Jain, J. S. Werth and J. C. Browne, A note on scheduling problems arising in satellite communications, Journal Op. Res. Soc. (JORS), 48, 1, 100-102, Jan., 1997.
• R. Jain, S. Rajagopalan, and L. F. Chang, A hashing scheme for phone number portability in PCS systems with ATM backbones, IEEE Pers. Indoor Mobile Radio Comm. (PIMRC), Oct. 1996.
• R. Jain, Reducing traffic impacts of PCS using hierarchical user location databases, IEEE Intl. Conf. Comm. (ICC), June 1996.
• R. Jain and Y.-B. Lin, An auxiliary strategy employing forwarding pointers to reduce network impacts of PCS, ACM Wireless Networks, 1, 2, 197-210, 1995.
• R. Jain and Y.-B. Lin, An auxiliary strategy employing forwarding pointers to reduce network  impacts of PCS, IEEE Intl. Conf. Comm. (ICC), June 1995.
• R. Jain, Y.-B. Lin, C. Lo and S. Mohan, A forwarding strategy to reduce network impacts of PCS, IEEE Infocom, Apr. 1995.
• R. Jain, Reducing traffic impacts of PCS using hierarchical user location databases, Intl. Teletraffic Conf. (ITC) Mini-Seminar on Mobility, Nov. 1994. (abstract)
• R. Jain, Y.-B. Lin, C. Lo and S. Mohan, A caching strategy to reduce network impacts of PCS, IEEE Journal Selected Areas Comm. (JSAC), 12, 8, 1434-1444, Oct. 1994.
• R. Jain, R. Wolff, Panel abstract, ACM Computer Science Conf (CSC), Mar. 1994.
• H. Harjono, R. Jain and S. Mohan, Analysis and simulation of a cache-based auxiliary location strategy for PCS, IEEE Networks for Pers. Comm. (NPC), Jan. 1994.
• S. Mohan and R. Jain, Two user location strategies for Personal Communications Services, IEEE Pers. Comm., (premiere issue), 1, 1, 42 -50, 1994.

Programmable and Open Networks and APIs

• R. Jain and J.-L. Bakker, Programmability for disaster relief networks, First IEEE Workshop on Disaster Recovery Networks (DIREN), June 24, 2002.  (abstract)
• J.-L. Bakker and R. Jain, Next Generation Service Creation Using XML Scripting Languages, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Comm. (ICC), Apr. 28 - May 2, 2002.
• R. Jain, J.-L. Bakker and F. Anjum, Java Call Control (JCC) and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Invited Paper, IEICE Trans. Comm., E84-B, 12, 3096-3103, Dec. 2001.
• F. Anjum, F. Caruso, R. Jain, P. Missier, A. Zordan, CitiTime: A system for rapid creation of portable next-generation telephony services using third-party software components, Computer Networks, 35, 5, 579-595, April, 2001.
• R. Jain and F. Anjum, Java Call Control, chapter in "Java in Telecommunications: Solutions for Next Generation Networks", ed. T. Jepsen, Wiley, 2001.
• R. Jain, F. Anjum, P. Missier and S. Shastry, Java call control, coordination and transactions, IEEE Communications, 106-114, Jan. 2000.
• F. Anjum, F. Caruso, R. Jain, P. Missier, A. Zordan, ChaiTime: A system for rapid creation of portable next-generation telephony services using third-party software components, IEEE Conf. on Open Architectures and Network Programming (OPENARCH), New York, Mar. 26-27, 1999.

Scheduling Algorithms, Parallel Computing and Parallel I/O

• D. Durand, R. Jain and D. Tseytlin, Parallel data transfer scheduling using distributed randomized edge coloring algorithms, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 63(6), 611-618, 2003. See pre-final version.
• R. Jain, K. Somalwar, J. Werth and J. C. Browne, Heuristics for scheduling parallel I/O operations, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 8(3), 310-320, Mar., 1997.
• D. Durand, R. Jain and D. Tseytlin, Applying randomized edge coloring algorithms to distributed communication: An experimental study, ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 1995.
• R. Jain and J. Werth, Analysis of approximate algorithms for edge-coloring bipartite graphs, Information Processing Letters, 54, 3, 163-168, May 1995. Also as a technical report, DIMACS Tech. Rep. 95-01, Jan. 1995.
• D. Durand, R. Jain and D. Tseytlin, Distributed scheduling algorithms to improve the performance of parallel data transfers, Workshop on I/O in Parallel Computer Systems (IPPSIO), Apr. 1994. Published as a paper in a Special Issue in ACM Computer Architecture News, 22(4), 35-40, Sep. 1994. Also as a technical report, DIMACS Tech. Rep. 94-38, July 1994.
• R. Jain and J. Werth, Approximation algorithms for scheduling parallel I/O operations, Extended abstract, DIMACS Workshop, 1994.
• R. Jain, K. Somalwar, J. Werth, J. C. Browne, Scheduling parallel I/O operations, Workshop on I/O in Parallel Computer Systems (IPPSIO), Apr. 1993. Also as a paper in a Special Issue in ACM Computer Architecture News, 21(5), 47-54, Dec. 1993. 
• J. C. Browne, J. Werth, R. Jain and P. Newton, A compositional approach to graphically based parallel programming, 26th Hawaii Intl. Conf. on System Sciences (HICSS), 427-428, Jan. 1993.  (See abstract).
• R. Jain, K. Somalwar, J. Werth, J. C. Browne, Scheduling parallel I/O operations in multiple-bus systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 16(4), 352-362, Dec. 1992. (See .ps,  abstract).
• R. Jain, J. Werth, J. C. Browne, G. Sasaki, A graph-theoretic model for the scheduling problem and its application to simultaneous resource scheduling, ORSA Conf. on Computer Science and Operations Research: New Developments in Their Interfaces, 1992. In O. Balci, R. Shander, and S. Zerrick, (Eds.), Computer Science and Operations Research: New Developments in Their Interfaces, Pergamon Press, 1992. See abstract.
• G. Sasaki and R. Jain, Scheduling data transfers in preemptive hierarchical switching systems with applications to packet radio networks, IEEE Infocom, May 1992.
• R. Jain and G. Sasaki, Scheduling packet transfers in a class of TDM hierarchical switching systems, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Communications (ICC), 1991.
• R. Jain, J. Werth and J. C. Browne, A general model of scheduling of parallel computations and its application to parallel I/O operations, Intl. Conf. on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 1991.  See abstract.
• J. Werth, J. C. Browne, S. Sobek, T. Lee, P. Newton, R. Jain The interaction of the formal and practical in parallel programming environment development: CODE, Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, 1991. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 589, pp. 35-49, Springer Verlag, 1991. Also Tech Report CS-TR-91-09, Dept of Computer Sciences, Univ. of Texas at Austin, 1991.
• R. Jain, J. Werth, J. C. Browne, I. Chakravarty, P. Highnam, An experimental study of the effectiveness of high-level parallel programming, SIAM Intl. Conf. on Parallel Processing, 1991.  See abstract.

Middleware and Applications

• R. Jain, S. Puglia, J. Wullert, K. Parmeswaran, J.-L. Bakker, The Mobile Application Server (MAS): An infrastructure platform for mobile wireless services, Information Systems Frontiers, (6)1, 23-34, Mar. 2004. See pre-final proof.
• D. Hromin, M. Chladil, N. Vanatta, D. Naumann, F. Anjum and R. Jain, codeBLUE: A Bluetooth interactive dance club system, IEEE Globecom, 2003. See slides. Also Tech. Rep., Stevens Institute of Technology, 2002.
• S. Puglia, R. Carter, R. Jain, MultECommerce: A distributed architecture for collaborative shopping on the WWW, ACM Conf. on Electronic Commerce, pp. 215-224, Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 17-20, 2000.
• S. Puglia, R. Carter and R. Jain, A Distributed Architecture for Collaborative Shopping on the WWW, Poster, World Wide Web Conference (WWW9), 2000.
• R. Jain, Middleware for nomadic access to enterprise information systems, IEEE Enterprise Networking and Computing (ENCOM '98), Atlanta, GA, June 1998.
• N. Krishnakumar and R. Jain, Escrow techniques for mobile sales and inventory applications, ACM Wireless Networks, 3, 235-246, Aug., 1997.
• R. Jain and N. Krishnakumar, An asymmetric cost model for query processing in mobile computing environments, in Wireless Information Networks, pp. 363-377, Kluwer, 1996.
• R. Jain and N. Krishnakumar, Asymmetric costs and dynamic query processing in mobile computing environments, Fifth WINLAB Workshop on Third Generation Wireless Information Networks, Rutgers Univ., Apr. 1995.
• N. Krishnakumar and R. Jain, Protocols for maintaining inventory databases and user service profiles in mobile sales applications (Extended Abstract), MOBIDATA Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Information Systems, Rutgers Univ., Nov. 1994.
• R. Jain and N. Krishnakumar, Network support for personal information services to PCS users, IEEE Networks for Personal Communications (NPC), Jan. 1994. (slides)
• R. Jain and N. Krishnakumar, Service handoffs and virtual mobility for delivery of personal information services to mobile users, Bellore Tech. Memo., TM-24696, Dec. 14, 1994. (slides).

Miscellany

• C. Perkins, E. Belding, R. Jain, Chairs' Introduction, ACM Workshop on Wireless Networks and Systems for Developing Regions (WiNS-DR), Sep. 2008.
• S. Das, R. Jain, TPC Chairs' Introduction, ACM Mobicom, Oct 1994.
  
• R. Jain, H. Lei, M. Viveros, Guest Editors' Introduction, MONET Special Issue on Mobile and Pervasive Commerce, Mobile Networks and Applications, (9)6, Dec. 2004.
• R. Jain, J. Werth, J. C. Browne, Guest Editors' Introduction, Special Issue on Innput/Output in Parallel Computer Systems, ACM Computer Architecture News, (22)4, Sep. 1994.
  
• R. Caceres, L. F. Chang, R. Jain, Guest Editors' Introduction, MONET Special Issue on Wireless Internet and Intranet Access, ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), (6)1, 7-8, Jan. 2001.
• H. Ahmadi, R. Jain, P. Kuehn, K. Leung, V. Li, Guest Editors' Introduction, Special Issue on Networking and Performance Issues of Personal Mobile Communications, IEEE Journal Selected Areas Comm. (JSAC), (15)7, Sep. 1997.
  

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Books

• R. Jain, J. –L. Bakker, and F. Anjum, Programming Converged Networks: Call Control in Java, XML and Parlay/OSA, 268 pp., Wiley, Nov. 2004.
• D. Barbara, R. Jain and N. Krishnakumar (eds.), Databases and Mobile Computing, 95 pp., Kluwer Academic Press, June, 1996.
• R. Jain, J. Werth, and J. C. Browne (eds.), Input/Output in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems, 416 pp., Kluwer Academic Press, June, 1996.
  

Dissertation and Thesis

• R. Jain, Scheduling Data Transfers in Parallel Computers and Communications Systems, Dept of Computer Sciences, Univ. of Texas at Austin, 250 pp., Dec. 1993.  See abstract, zipped pdf, and also broken into 4 smaller files: Part a, b, c, and d.  Also available as Tech Report UT-CS-93-03.
• R. Jain, Factors Affecting The Calculation of High Latitude Energy Inputs to the Thermosphere, Ionosphere Research Lab, Penn State Univ, 142pp., Nov. 1982.  Also available as Scientific Report PSU-IRL-SCI-474.
  

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Standards Activities

• Specification Lead for Parlay working group on interfaces for Emergency Telecommunications Services (ETS), 2000-2002. (slides).
• Specification Co-Lead for Parlay working group on XML interfaces for service creation (Parlay X), 2000-2002. (charter).
• Specification Lead for JAIN working group on Java Call Control (JCC), JSR 21, 1999-2001.  (spec).
• Specification Lead for JAIN Java Coordination and Transactions (JCAT), JSR 122, 1999-2002.  (spec).
  

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Invited Talks

• Invited talk: Location Based Services: From promise to reality, Telecom Council Mobile Forum, July 2008.
• Panel talk: Networking in Challenged Environments, IEEE Infocom, Apr 2008.
• Invited talk: Combining multiple data sources for improved highway speed estimation, ACM Principles of Mobile Computing (POMC), Aug. 2007. (With G. Neverov and S. Goel).
• Keynote address: As We May Create, WINLAB Annual Review, Rutgers Univ, May 2006.
• Plenary talk: Towards 4G: From cathedral to bazaar, 1^st Intl Conf on Communications Sys Software and Middleware (Comsware), Jan 2006.
• Invited talk: Mastering the dance: Partnering theory and experimentation in networking research, CRAWDAD Workshop, 2005.
• Panel talk: Next generation wireless networks, IEEE LANMAN Symp., Oct. 2004.
• Invited talk: Wireless PlanetLab: Preliminary thoughts, PlanetLab Users Group meeting, Mar. 2004.
• Keynote address: 4G Services, Architecture and Networks: Speculation and Challenges, 4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 21-24 January, 2003, Melbourne, Australia.
• Plenary panel talk: Ubiquitous computing: The Next Big Thing or Just Hype As Usual?, 4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 21-24 January, 2003, Melbourne, Australia.  (Also slides from the other panelists).
• R. Jain, Sustainable design for pervasive computing systems, CRA Conf on Grand Challenges in Computer Science and Eng., Airlie, CA, June, 2002.  (Also slides from other panelists).
• R. Jain, Rethinking pervasive computing, NSF Workshop On Context-Aware Mobile and Pervasive Data Management, Providence, RI, Jan 2002.
• Plenary panel talk: R. Jain, Gazillions of gizmos: What are the (location) challenges?, ACM Intl. Conf. on Data Eng. (ICDE), Heidelberg, Apr. 2001.  (Also slides from other panelists and Stu Feldman's keynote ).
• R. Jain and J.- L. Bakker, Parlay Call Control and related topics, Voice over the Net (VoN) Developers Conf., Boston, July 2001.  Also  R. Jain, F. Anjum and J.-L. Bakker, JCC and JCAT.

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Patents

Patents granted

• X. Gao, F. Watanabe, G. Wu, R. Jain and T. Kawahara, Method for supporting scalable and reliable multicast in TDMA/TDD systems using feedback suppression techniques, U. S. Patent 7,447,148, Nov. 4, 2008.
• Y. Gwon, R. Jain and T. Kawahara, Method and apparatus for location estimation using region of confidence filtering, U. S. Patent 7,395,073, July 1, 2008.
• C. Pepin, J. Matta, K. Lashkari and R. Jain, Source and channel rate adaptation for VoIP, U. S. Patent 7,295,549, Nov. 13, 2007.
• Y. Gwon, R. Jain and T. Kawahara, Selective fusion location estimation (SELFLOC) for wireless access technologies, U. S. Patent 7,257,411, Aug. 14, 2007.
• M. M. bin Tariq, C. Gentry, J. Kempf, R. Jain and T. Kawahara, Location privacy through IP address space scrambling, U. S. Patent 7,246,231, July 17, 2007.
• R. Jain and J. Wullert II, Dynamic telephone numbering system, U. S. Patent 7,020,256, Mar. 28, 2006.
• F. Anjum, F. Caruso, R. Jain, P. Missier, and A.Zordan, Architecture for the rapid creation of telephony services in a next generation network, U. S. Patent 6,967,957, Nov. 22, 2005.
• R. Jain and J. Werth, Periodic wireless broadcast, U. S. Patent 6,526,038, Feb. 25, 2003.
• L. F. Chang, R. Jain and S. Rajagopalan, Method and apparatus supporting non-geographic telephone numbers, U. S. Patent 6,463,270, Oct. 8, 2002.
• R. Jain and R. S. Wolff, Selectable billing options for a single communications account, U. S. Patent 6,282,274, Aug. 28, 2001.
• R. Jain and M. Kramer, A communications network having a multicast capability, U. S. Patent 6,085,101, July 04, 2000.
• P. Arnold, L. F. Chang, R. Jain, K. Leland, B. Malkemes and J. Rizzo, Method and system for wireless Internet access, U. S. Patent 5,905,719, May 18, 1999.
• R. Jain and J. Werth, An improved periodic wireless data broadcast, U. S. Patent 5,842,010, Nov. 24, 1998.
• R. Jain, C. Lo and S. Mohan, Method and System Utilizing a Pointer Strategy to Locate Nomadic Users in a Communications Services System, U. S. Patent 5,606,596, Feb. 25, 1997.
• R. Jain, C. Lo and S. Mohan, Method and System Utilizing a Location Caching Strategy to Locate Nomadic Users in a PCS System, U. S. Patent 5,490,203, Feb. 6, 1996.

Patents filed

• Eight applications filed on Location Based Services, wireless application frameworks, filed 2005-2008.
• N. Apte, K. Deutsch, R. Jain, Method and system to optimize SOAP message traffic between a wireless device and a Web Service, filed 2004.
• N. Apte, K. Deutsch, R. Jain, M. Etoh, Y. Naoi, Y. Nakamura, Information retrieving method without disclosing privacy information, filed 2004.
• C. Gentry, A. Hevia, R. Jain, T. Kawahara and Z. Ramzan, Method and apparatus for authentication of parallel data streams with adaptively controlled losses, filed 2003.
• J. Trostle, H. Matsuoka, M. Tariq, J. Kempf, T. Kawahara, R. Jain, IPv6 location privacy enhancements, filed 2003.

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Professional Memberships

• ACM
• IEEE (Fellow)
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Computer Science honorary society)

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Bio

• 2009 (175 words)
  

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Links

• Telcordia external web page:  Papers and Bio
• Bellcore Applied Research Alumni

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