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Allen K. L. Miu |
Graduated June, 2006
Since July 2006, I've joined Ruckus Wireless as a Wireless Systems Architect.
Research
Interests:
Wireless Systems, Networking protocols, algorithms, and measurements, Mobile Computing, Location-aware applications and tracking technologies, Sensor networks and embedded systemsResearch Advisor: Professor Hari Balakrishnan
Current Projects:
Past Projects:
Publications:
Conferences
- Bret Hull, Vladimir Bychkovsky, Kevin Chen, Michel Goraczko, Allen Miu, Eugene Shih, Yang Zhang, Hari Balakrishnan, and Samuel Madden, CarTel: A Distributed Mobile Sensor Computing System, Proc. 4th ACM SenSys, Boulder, CO, November, 2006.
- Vladimir Bychkovsky, Bret Hull, Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden, A Measurement Study of Vehicular Internet Access Using In Situ Wi-Fi Networks, Proc. 12th ACM MobiCom, Los Angeles, CA, September, 2006.
- Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Can Emre Koksal, Improving Loss Resilience with Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless Networks, Proc. 11th ACM MobiCom, Cologne, Germany, August, 2005. (Best Paper Candidate)
- Allen Miu, Godfrey Tan, Hari Balakrishnan, John G. Apostolopoulos, Divert: Fine-grained Path Selection for Wireless LANs, Proc. 2nd ACM MobiSys, Boston, MA, June, 2004, pp. 203-216.
- Allen Miu, John G. Apostolopoulos, Wai-tian Tan and Mitchell Trott, Low-Latency Wireless Video Over 802.11 Networks Using Path Diversity, Proc. IEEE ICME, Baltimore, MD, July, 2003, vol. 2, pp.441-444.
- Godfrey Tan, Allen Miu, John Guttag, and Hari Balakrishnan, An Efficient Scatternet Formation Algorithm for Dynamic Environmnets, Proc. IASTED CCN, Cambridge, MA, November, 2002. [ps, pdf]
- Nissanka B. Priyantha, Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Seth Teller, The Cricket Compass for Context-Aware Mobile Applications, Proc. 7th ACM MOBICOM, Rome, Italy, July 2001.
- Allen Miu and Paramvir (Victor) Bahl, Dynamic Host Configuration for Managing Mobility Between Public and Private Networks, Proc. 3rd USENIX USITS, San Francisco, CA, March 2001. (Also MSR-TR-2000-85 September 2000.)
Workshop
- Kyle Jamieson, Bret Hull, Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Understanding the Real-World Performance of Carrier Sense, Proc. ACM E-WIND, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
Journal/Articles
- Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, Can Emre Koksal, Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless Networks, Springer Journal on Wireless Networks (WINET). To appear.
- P. Bahl, A. Balachandran, A. Miu, W. Russell, G. Voelker and Y.M. Wang, PAWNs: Satisfying the Need for Ubiquitous Connectivity and Location Services, IEEE Personal Communications Magazine (PCS), Vol. 6, October 2001.
Thesis
- Allen Miu, Improving Packet Delivery Efficiency Using Multi-Radio Diversity in Wireless LANs, PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2006.
- Allen Miu, Design and Implementation of an Indoor Mobile Navigation System, SM Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jan 2002. Winner of a Masterworks Award, May 2002.
Demonstrations:
- Data Management in the CarTel Mobile Sensor Computing System. ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2006, Chicago, IL, 2006
- A Demonstration of Tracking the Position of a Moving LEGO Traing using the Cricket Indoor Location System. 10th ACM Mobicom, Philadephia, PA, 2004. [ps] [pdf]
Videos:
- Oxygen Demo 2005. [mpg (29 MB), wmv (23 MB)]
- Tracking a moving train. [mpg (405 MB)]
- Location-aware stream migration. [mpg (18 MB)]
- Indoor navigation. [mpg (27 MB)]
- Centipede: multi-robot chain-forming interaction. [mpg (21 MB)]
Project Collaborators
I'm fortunate to have had the chance to work closely with the following set of amazing people during my course at MIT:| John Ankcorn | Nokia Research | ||
| John Apostolopoulos | HP Labs, Palo Alto | ||
| Paramvir (Victor) Bahl | Microsoft Research, Redmond | ||
| Anand Balachandran | Microsoft, Redmond | ||
| Prof. Hari Balakrishnan | MIT CSAIL | ||
| Vladimir Bychkavsky | MIT CSAIL | ||
| Jon Finegold | uLocate Communications, Inc | ||
| Michel Goraczko | MIT CSAIL | ||
| Prof. John Guttag | MIT CSAIL | ||
| Bret Hull | MIT CSAIL | ||
| Kyle Jamieson | MIT CSAIL | ||
| Can Emre Koksal | EPFL, Switzerland | ||
| Prof. Samuel Madden | MIT CSAIL | ||
| Nissanka (Bodhi) Priyantha | Microsoft Research, Redmond | ||
| Adam Smith | MIT CSAIL | ||
| Dan Tan | HP Labs, Palo Alto | ||
| Godfrey Tan | MIT CSAIL (now at Intel, Santa Clara) | ||
| Prof. Seth Teller | MIT CSAIL | ||
| Mitch Trott | HP Labs, Palo Alto |
Courses
| 6.170 | Laboratory in Software Engineering (served as Teaching Assistant for this course) | |
| 6.821 | Programming Languages | |
| 6.823 | Computer Architecture | |
| 6.836 | Embodied Intelligence (Class Project) | |
| 6.892 | Computer Networks (Class Project) | |
| 6.856 | Randomized Algorithms (Class Project) | |
| 6.838J | Computational Geometry | |
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(Convex Hull Applet)(BSP Applet)(Duality Applet) (I taught Lecture 7 [ppt][ps][pdf]) | ||
| 15.401 | Finance Theory I | |
| 15.402 | Finance Theory II (Corporate Finance) | |
| 15.399 | Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab) |
Personal
Biography:
I was born in Hong Kong, but was raised in Vancouver, Canada since I was seven. I got married this summer (2006) to my college sweetheart, Jie Zhang and have since return to the west coast. I love badminton.
Activities:
Committee Member and Participant, Boston Open (2002-2005)MIT Team member, MIT Invitational Team Badminton Tournament 2001
President (2004-), MIT Community Badminton Club
Co-President (2001-2002), Officer-at-large (2003-) MIT Badminton Club
Miscellaneous:
My cousin is a rising pop singer in Hong Kong. Check out her first and second albums!
Norman Lee's website.
Last modified on September 4, 2006