Nathanael Thompson
Siebel Center MC 258
201 North Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
nathomps@cs.uiuc.edu
Overview:
I am a fifth year PhD student researching wireless networking and distributed systems. My current research direction is in exploring new opportunities for last-hop Internet connectivity emerging through the coupling of the widespread installation of broadband Internet and the proliferation of private 802.11 access points. My work primarily focuses on improving the availability, accessibility and performance of open Wi-Fi networks by creating new protocols and algorithms and providing real world implementations that operate within existing systems.

Projects:
AGE
PERM

Papers:
[1] Nathanael Thompson, Petros Zerfos, Robert Sombruski, Jens-Peter Redlich, and Haiyun Luo. 100% organic: Design and implementation of self-sustaining cellular networks. In Proceedings of ACM HotMobile, February 2008.
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[2] Nathanael Thompson, Haiyun Luo, Petros Zerfos, Jatinder Singh, and Zuoning Yin. Extended abstract: Authentication on the edge - distributed authentication for a global open wi-fi network. In Proceedings ACM MobiCom, September 2007.
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[3] Ercan Ucan, Nathanael Thompson, and Indranil Gupta. A piggybacking approach to reduce overhead in sensor network gossip. In Proceedings ACM MIDSENS, November 2007.
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[4] Nathanael Thompson, Guanghui He, and Haiyun Luo. Flow scheduling for end-host multihoming. In Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM, April 2006.
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[5] Indranil Gupta, Steve Ko, Nathanael Thompson, Mehwish Nagda, Christo F. Devaraj, Ramsés Morales, and Jay A. Patel. A case for methodology research in self-* distributed systems. LNCS 3460, Self-Star Properties in Complex Information Systems (eds: O. Babaoglu et al), pages 260-272, 2005.
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[6] Nathanael Thompson and Haiyun Luo. Perm: A collaborative system for residential internet access. Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2006-2751, University of Illinois, July 2006.
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[7] Nathanael Thompson, Indranil Gupta, and Kenneth Birman. A composition methodology for designing proactive distributed protocols. Technical Report UIUCDCS-R-2004-2490, University of Illinois, October 2004.
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[8] Guanghui He, Nathanael Thompson, and Haiyun Luo. Individual user wlan traffic analysis. In Poster, ACM MobiHoc, May 2005.
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