• B.E. in Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (formerly Karnataka Regional Engg. College), 1999
• M.E. in Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, 2001
• PhD in Electrical Engg. (Embedded Computing Systems), UCLA, 2005
  (Thesis: "Controlled Mobility for Efficient Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks")

• NIMS : Networked Infomechanical Systems

• Data Mule : Mobility for enhanced performance in sensor networks

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• Arun A Somasundara, Aman Kansal, David Jea, Deborah Estrin, Mani B Srivastava, "Controllably Mobile Infrastructure for Low Energy Embedded Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) , August 2006. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200503-06)
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• Richard Pon, Maxim Batalin, Victor Chen, Aman Kansal, Duo Liu, Mohammad Rahimi, Lisa Shirachi, Arun A Somasundara, Yan Yu, Mark Hansen, William J Kaiser, Mani B Srivastava, Gaurav Sukhatme, Deborah Estrin, "Coordinated Static and Mobile Sensing for Environmental Monitoring," Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2005) , June 2005. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200506-06)
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• David Jea, Arun A Somasundara, Mani B Srivastava, "Multiple Controlled Mobile Elements (Data Mules) for Data Collection in Sensor Networks," 2005 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '05) , June 2005. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200501-02)
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• Arun A Somasundara, Mani B Srivastava, William J Kaiser, " Routing in Wireless Ad hoc Networks: Wireless & Mechanical Data Transfer," SUBMITTED to Workshop on delay tolerant networking and related networks (WDTN-05) , April 2005. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200504-04)
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• Arun A Somasundara, Aditya Ramamoorthy, Mani B Srivastava, "Mobile Element Scheduling for Efficient Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks with Dynamic Deadlines," IEEE Real Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) , December 2004. (TR-UCLA-NESL-200412-01)
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