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Overview

Omprakash Gnawali is a researcher affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States. Their scholarly contributions focus on areas spanning computer science and engineering, with an emphasis on network communications and related technologies.

Their research work covers several subfields including Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Information Systems, Signal Processing, and Artificial Intelligence. Main topics in their publications involve Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies, Spam and Phishing Detection, Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks and Protocols, Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks, as well as Misinformation and Its Impacts.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Omprakash Gnawali include Milad Heydariaan, Arjun Mukherjee, Nildo dos Santos Ribeiro, Marcos A. M. Vieira, and Luiz F. M. Vieira. These collaborations reflect a networked approach to research across multiple dimensions of networking and communication technologies.

Their recent papers, reflecting a range of topics and publication venues, include:

  • "ZigFi: Harnessing Channel State Information for Cross-Technology Communication," published in 2020 by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • "Feasibility of LoRa for Smart Home Indoor Localization," published in 2021 by Applied Sciences
  • "SAMAF," published in 2020 by ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications
  • "SplitPath: High throughput using multipath routing in dual-radio Wireless Sensor Networks," published in 2022 by Computer Networks
  • "RPL objective function for multihop PLC network," published in 2022 by Journal of Communications and Networks

The major publication venues where Omprakash Gnawali has contributed multiple works include arXiv (Cornell University), Applied Sciences, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, and Computer Networks.

Best Publications

  • Collection tree protocol

    Omprakash Gnawali;Rodrigo Fonseca;Kyle Jamieson;David Moss

  • The Trickle Algorithm

    Philip Levis;Thomas Heide Clausen

  • Visible Light Communication: Concepts, Applications and Challenges

    Luiz Eduardo Mendes Matheus;Alex Borges Vieira;Luiz F. M. Vieira;Marcos A. M. Vieira

  • The Minimum Rank with Hysteresis Objective Function

    Omprakash Gnawali

  • Four-Bit Wireless Link Estimation.

    Rodrigo Fonseca;Omprakash Gnawali;Kyle Jamieson;Philip Alexander Levis

  • Macro-programming wireless sensor networks using Kairos

    Ramakrishna Gummadi;Omprakash Gnawali;Ramesh Govindan

  • The Tenet architecture for tiered sensor networks

    Omprakash Gnawali;Ki-Young Jang;Jeongyeup Paek;Marcos Vieira

  • Routing without routes: the backpressure collection protocol

    Scott Moeller;Avinash Sridharan;Bhaskar Krishnamachari;Omprakash Gnawali

  • CTP: An efficient, robust, and reliable collection tree protocol for wireless sensor networks

    Omprakash Gnawali;Rodrigo Fonseca;Kyle Jamieson;Maria Kazandjieva

  • Evaluating the Performance of RPL and 6LoWPAN in TinyOS

    JeongGil Ko;Stephen Dawson-Haggerty;Omprakash Gnawali;David Culler

  • Interaction of retransmission, blacklisting, and routing metrics for reliability in sensor network routing

    O. Gnawali;M. Yarvis;J. Heidemann;R. Govindan

  • Structural damage detection and localization using NETSHM

    Krishna Chintalapudi;Jeongyeup Paek;Omprakash Gnawali;Tat S. Fu

  • ZigFi: Harnessing Channel State Information for Cross-Technology Communication

    Xiuzhen Guo;Yuan He;Xiaolong Zheng;Liangcheng Yu

  • Does QUIC Make the Web Faster

    Prasenjeet Biswal;Omprakash Gnawali

  • Language independent analysis and classification of discussion threads in Coursera MOOC forums

    Lorenzo A. Rossi;Omprakash Gnawali

  • The Tenet architecture for tiered sensor networks

    Jeongyeup Paek;Ben Greenstein;Omprakash Gnawali;Ki-Young Jang

  • DualMOP-RPL: Supporting Multiple Modes of Downward Routing in a Single RPL Network

    Jeonggil Ko;Jongsoo Jeong;Jongjun Park;Jong Arm Jun

  • Surviving sensor network software faults

    Yang Chen;Omprakash Gnawali;Maria Kazandjieva;Philip Levis

  • The Minimum Rank Objective Function with Hysteresis

    Omprakash Gnawali;Levis P

  • Data stashing: energy-efficient information delivery to mobile sinks through trajectory prediction

    HyungJune Lee;Martin Wicke;Branislav Kusy;Omprakash Gnawali

  • The ETX Objective Function for RPL

    Omprakash Gnawali;Levis P

  • ZIGFI: Harnessing Channel State Information for Cross-Technology Communication

    Xiuzhen Guo;Yuan He;Xiaolong Zheng;Liangcheng Yu

  • Tenet: An Architecture for Tiered Sensor Networks

    Omprakash Gnawali;Ki-Young Jang;Jeongyeup Paek;Marcos Vieira

  • Structural DamageDetection andLocalization Using NETSHM

    Krishna Chintalapudi;Jeongyeup Paek;Karthik Dantu;Erik Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramesh Govindan
Ramesh Govindan University of Southern California
Jeongyeup Paek
Jeongyeup Paek Chung-Ang University
Weidong Shi
Weidong Shi Jiangsu University
Leonidas J. Guibas
Leonidas J. Guibas Stanford University
Philip Levis
Philip Levis Stanford University
Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin Cornell University
Luiz F. M. Vieira
Luiz F. M. Vieira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Eddie Kohler
Eddie Kohler Harvard University
Andreas Terzis
Andreas Terzis Google (United States)
Katherine A. Loveland
Katherine A. Loveland The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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