Nilo Rivera

I received my Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Department at Johns Hopkins University in September 2008. My research focuses on seamless mobility and robust distributed services for wireless networks. My research interests spans many areas of Networking and Distributed Systems, including wireless networks, overlay networks, agent systems, and secure routing. I did most of my research on SMesh, a seamless wireless mesh network for mobile clients. I also work on the Spines overlay network messaging-system. I am a member of the Distributed Systems and Networks (DSN) lab where I worked with my advisor Dr. Yair Amir.

The SMesh Wireless Mesh Network
Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, Raluca Musaloiu-Elefteri, Nilo Rivera
Accepted for publication at ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (ACM TOCS).

A Robust Push-to-Talk Service for Wireless Mesh Networks
Yair Amir, Raluca Musaloiu-Elefteri, Nilo Rivera
IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON 2010), Boston, MA, USA, June 2010.

On Redundant Multipath Operating System Support for Wireless Mesh Networks
Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, Michael Kaplan, Raluca Musaloiu-Elefteri, Nilo Rivera
IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMesh 2008), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2008.

ASSIST-Automated System for Surgical Instrument and Sponge Tracking
Nilo Rivera, Rosemary Mountain, Lia Assumpcao, Allen A. Williams, A.B. Cooper, Douglas L. Lewis, Richard C. Benson, Joseph Miragliotta, Mike Marohn, Russell Taylor
IEEE Internation Conference on RFID (IEEE RFID 2008), Las Vegas, NV, USA, April 2008.

Automated System for Surgical Instrument and Sponge Tracking
Nilo Rivera, Rosemary Mountain MS, Lia Assumpcao, Allen A. Williams, A.B. Cooper, Douglas L. Lewis, Richard C. Benson, Joseph A. Miragliotta, Russell H. Taylor, and Mike Marohn.
Annual congress of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons - SAGES 2008, Philadelphia, PA, April 2008 (Abstract, Emerging Technologies Session).

An Inter-domain Routing Protocol for Multi-homed Wireless Mesh Networks
Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, Raluca Musaloiu-Elefteri, Nilo Rivera
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile, and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2007), Helsinki, Finland, June 2007 (accepted as an extented paper).

Fast Handoff for Seamless Wireless Mesh Networks
Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, Michael Hilsdale, Raluca Musaloiu-Elefteri, Nilo Rivera
International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys 2006), Uppsala, Sweden, June 2006.

Spring 2008: Distributed Systems
Fall 2006: Computer Integrated Surgery
Spring 2006: Advanced Computer Integrated Surgery
Fall 2006: Intermediate Programming in C and C++
Spring 2005: Intro to Programming - C++
Fall 2004: Distributed Systems

I am originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. My hobbies include playing piano, digital music recording/editing, and basketball.

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