I am presently graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working under the guidance of Dr. Indranil Gupta, as part of the Distributed Protocols Research Group. I previously attended The University of Texas - Pan American, where I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, along with a minor in Mathematics. My formative years were spent at The Science Academy of South Texas.

 

Research

My primary research interest is in improving distributed systems, where in I focus on protocol design and analysis. My efforts have been focused on improving content delivery, and for improving application-level multicast using social network principles. On the side, I also dabble with wireless networks. Recently, I have worked on designing a new routing system for Wireless Mesh Networks.

Papers (Journals / Magazines / Conferences / Workshops)

• Blutopia: Stackable Storage for Cluster Management [BibTeX]
  Fabio Oliveira, Gorka Guardiola, Jay A. Patel, and Eric V. Hensbergen
  In Proceedings of IEEE Cluster, Austin, TX, September 2007

• A Cross-Layer Architecture to Exploit Multi-Channel Diversity with a Single Transceiver [Publisher] [Local copy (PDF)] [Talk slides (PPT)] [BibTeX]
  Jay A. Patel, Haiyun Luo, and Indranil Gupta
  In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM (Minisymposium), Anchorage, AK, May 2007
  A more thorough version which is pending a Journal review is available as a UIUC Tech Report (see below) -- it greatly clarifies the scheduling algorithm, amongst other things.

• JetStream: Achieving Predictable Gossip Dissemination by Leveraging Social Network Principles [Publisher] [Local copy (PDF)] [Talk slides (PPT)] [BibTeX]
  Jay A. Patel, Indranil Gupta, and Noshir Contractor
  In Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2006), pp. 32-39, Cambridge, MA, July 2006

• Bridging The Gap: Augmenting Centralized Systems with P2P Technologies [Publisher] [Local copy (PDF)] [BibTeX]
  Jay A. Patel and Indranil Gupta
  ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - Special Issue on Self-Organizing Systems, pp. 14-17, July 2006

• The Case for Methodology Research in Self-* Distributed Systems [Publisher] [Local copy (PDF)] [BibTeX]
  Indranil Gupta, Steven Y. Ko, Nathanael Thompson, Mehwish Nagda, Christo F. Devaraj, Ramses Morales, and Jay A. Patel
  Self-Star Properties in Complex Information Systems - LNCS 3460, pp. 260-272, 2005

• Overhaul: Extending HTTP to Combat Flash Crowds [Publisher] [Local copy (PDF)] [Talk slides (PPT)] [BibTeX]
  Jay A. Patel and Indranil Gupta
  In Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW 2004) - LNCS 3293, pp. 34-43, Beijing, China, October 2004

Work-In-Progress / Posters

• Turning Flash Crowds into Smart Mobs with Real-time Stochastic Detection and Adaptive Cooperative Caching [Publisher]
  Jay A. Patel, Charles M. Yang, and Indranil Gupta
  At the Work-In-Progression session of the Twentieth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2005), Brighton, England, October 2005

Technical Reports

• Routing in the Frequency Domain [PDF]
  Jay A. Patel, Haiyun Luo, and Indranil Gupta
  UIUC Department of Computer Science Tech Report, UIUCDCS-R-2007-2916, November 2007
  A more thorough version of our INFOCOM 2007 paper. Currently under Journal review.

• Blutopia: Cluster Life-cycle Management
  Fabio Oliveira, Jay A. Patel, Eric Van Hensbergen, Ahmed Gheith, and Ram Rajamony
  IBM Research Report, RC23784, November 2005

Contact

• Email (preferred means of contact):
  • school; current; temporary: jaypatel@cs.uiuc.edu
  • personal; permanent: jay@patel.org.in
  • for those who desire, my PGP public key
• Mail: MC 258, Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
• UIUC Campus Location: 3111 Siebel Center for Computer Science
• Social Networks:

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Last Updated: Jul 1, 2008 2:15 AM